Author: nickjones2011

I wonder how you’re getting on with your Bible reading in 2016?! If like me you’ve fallen a day behind, today is a great day to catch up! It’s an extra day this year so you have one more day to read through the Bible! It doesn’t really matter where you’re up to, but why…

One of the challenges of depression is that people feel alone, I am posting a talk from Psalm 42 (click on the link above) that I gave at another church to hopefully help those who are in the midst of the struggle – you’re not alone. I hope the talk helps us all to better understand…

On Sunday I mentioned a great little (free!) app that will help you to pray.  We were thinking about how Paul prayed for those he hadn’t yet met (Colossians 1:9) and that he regularly prayed for them (Colossians 1:9).  If you download Prayermate onto your phone or tablet you will be able to subscribe to prayer…

Last night we started our Christianity Explored Course, we had a great time, but the DVD left us with a niggling question – “if you don’t think the Gospel is the best news in the world – then you almost certainly haven’t understood it.”  Wow, that’s a challenge! Do I really believe that the Good…

Fishermen are used to storms and Jesus’ disciples were no exception, many of them were experienced fishermen and would have been out in many storms, but the one we read about in yesterday’s reading from Mark 4 must have been pretty severe as it left them fearing for their lives.  And yet, it wasn’t the…

Yesterday and today’s readings from Matthew 27-28 show the amazing power of the cross.  Something that looked so weak and unimpressive was God’s incredible way of rescuing us.  As Jesus died on the old rugged cross, the eye witness Matthew helps us understand what was happening. Jesus was forsaken by God (27:46) so that we…

Is God really in control?  Does he care about the small details?  Why is there a picture of our nearly finished wet room (keep reading…!)? In two of the readings from the M’Cheyne plan for today we see the answer is clearly yes. Genesis 24 shows God’s sovereign control in the provision of a wife…