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While we are unable to meet due to government directives surrounding COVID-19, an online order of service, together with embedded media, will be posted here on Sunday morning each week. Click on the ‘Read More’ button for the appropriate date to open the online order of service. We trust that you will be blessed as we share together in worship in this way.

This final scene in the story of Jonah depicts the hidden hostilities in our own hearts, causing us to despair of life. Jonah had his reasons for wanting the Ninevites destroyed and as a result was offended by the display of God’s grace. We may also feel justified in wishing calamities on others but no such reasoning can be allowed to stand in the light of the revelation of God’s grace. Despondency and coolness towards God are often a camouflage for deep seated resentment at God’s failure to act in accordance with our view of justice. We see something of […]

In Jonah chapter 3 we hear of God’s call to Jonah – take two. He is graciously given a second opportunity to obey God’s call to preach to Nineveh resulting in the remarkable conversion of this corrupt and violent city. In Jonah 4:1 we discover deflation instead of elation: rather than being overjoyed at the remarkable conversion of a godless city we find Jonah angry and depressed. He cannot stomach mercy being shown to a repentant Nineveh. This recipient of God’s unexpected grace complains bitterly when others are shown similar kindness. This is what happens when prior loyalties and hidden […]

Paul now comes to a great climax in his letter to the Galatians. God has acted in the fullness of time by sending His Son to bring us out from the slavery of living under the whole Mosaic system of law and bring us into the liberating sonship of Christ. Christian freedom is solidly grounded on the fact that all humanity has been shut up under the judgment of God’s law – ‘locked up until faith should be revealed’ but now ‘since faith has come’ all who believe – both Jew and Gentile are liberated from the guilt and impotence […]

In this section (Galations 3:15-29), Paul highlights how the promise given to Abraham is not superseded by the giving of the Law to Moses. Instead, the inheritance promised to Abraham supersedes the Law in the sense that, while the Law cannot give us life, the promise by faith in Christ does give life to all who believe. No-one can achieve righteousness through the Law, rather the Law helps to expose our sin and to bring us to see our total moral failure so that we no longer trust ourselves but Christ as our only hope for righteousness. This is appalling […]

Jamie Grant will be our guest speaker for this year’s Church Family Camp. Jamie is Vice Principal of Highland Theological College and the head of Biblical Studies. He will be speaking to us on a number of the Psalms under the title, ‘Songs To Live By – The Psalms and Christian Identity’. For more details or registrations please contact us. [Dates and location details]