Author: nickjones2011

  • 6 steps to loving your church

    Last night was the launch of “6 steps to loving your church”.  This is our lent course for this year, we’ll be seeking to grow in our love for one another as a church family. You can listen to the intro here and you’re very welcome to join us for the next 6 Wednesday evenings…

  • The Prodigal God

    Don’t forget we’re meeting tomorrow (Wed) night at 8pm at the Rectory to discuss the Prodigal God, if you need a refresher this video may help! <div class="sqs-video-wrapper" data-provider-name="YouTube" data-html="”>

  • A costly business

    Sin is costly! In more ways than one…as we’ll think about in a minute.  If you’re reading through the Bible in a Year Plan and you’ve got this far – well done and keep going! You’ll have reached Leviticus, and this is dangerous territory – many give up at this point, but it’s worth persevering!…

  • How to overcome suicidal thoughts – notes from meeting in the Kilmore

    These are my notes from Dr Stephen Critchlow’s talk at the Kilmore Hotel.  I didn’t get everything down but hopefully what is here is a help.  Dr Critchlow began with a disclaimer that would be good for me to repeat here: This information is of a general nature, none of this information should be construed…

  • Happy Valentine’s?

    For some today is a great day and we want to celebrate with them. For others it’s a difficult day and we want to mourn with them. Some are in a happy relationship and today is a celebration of that, others are excited about the possibility of a relationship, but others are grieving the loss…

  • How much faith do you need?

    I was struck as I read Exodus 12 about how God’s people were saved, they simply had to take God at his Word and do what he said – kill the lamb and put the blood on the door post. Imagine two Hebrew men, Levi and Simeon on the night of the very first Passover…

  • God has a plan!

    How is God going to work out his purposes to multiply and bless his people when the King of Egypt seems determined to wipe them out in some pretty cruel ethnic cleansing? We saw how God was working out his purposes despite the mess at the end of Genesis (see God’s tapestry), but now there’s…

  • Depression – notes from Dr Steve Critchlow’s talk at the Kilmore Hotel

    Here are my notes from the talk that Dr Steve Critchlow gave last night at the Hotel Kilmore in Cavan. I didn’t get everything down, but hopefully this may be of some help. Dr Critchlow will be speaking again this coming Monday (13th Feb) at 8pm in the Kilmore Hotel on the subject of suicide.…

  • A helpful bereavement prayer

    I came across this helpful prayer and pray it may help those of us missing loved ones at the moment: Lord Jesus Christ, you have conquered death, and for those whose trust is in you its sting has been removed forever. Thank you that it is no longer to be dreaded or feared, but that…

  • God’s tapestry

    Joseph’s brothers were terrified.  Their father had just died and the brother they had mistreated was now the second most powerful person in the world. Perhaps the only reason he’d been kind to them up until this point was for the sake of their father, surely now that his father was gone he would seek…