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This week David Powell will bring the ninth message in our ‘Abide In Me’ series – “Abiding in the End”.  The readings are from Revelation 4 and 7:9-17 revealing the throne of the Father and the Lamb that was slain. Here we reach a glorious end to our abiding – eternal worship of the Father,…

This week, in John 15, we come to the passage from which the title of our series appears – ‘Abide in me, and I in you,’ says Jesus to his disciples. The vine imagery used by Jesus is a reminder of Israel’s failure to produce the fruit the Father desired. In the last of Jesus’…

It is often said that we live in a ‘free country’, but I wonder how many of us truly feel free. There is much in this life which seems to restrict and overwhelm us, let alone the matters of sin, the world, the devil, our consciences and God’s law and his wrath. Wouldn’t it be…

This week, from John 6:22-59, we will hear how doing ‘the work of God’, coming to Jesus, looking to him and feeding on his flesh are all one and the same – belief in him. And all who do this will be ‘raised up in the last day’ and have eternal life. Yet, unless the…

Last week we were shown something of the holiness of God that Israel, and others such as the Philistines, saw and experienced, particularly with regard to the Ark of the Covenant. God was determined to dwell among his people, and graciously provided the means by which this could take place. However, very few were able…

It is so easy to take for granted this remarkable fact that God has come to make His home with us. To abide in God and for God to abide in us is no small matter.  It is an awesome thing to believe that the holy God of all creation is pleased to live in…

Last week we heard of God’s plan and desire to have a people of his own who will abide with him, and he with them. This all began in the Garden of Eden. However, sin, guilt and shame now interrupt this true abiding. Fear and death now loom over us and over all creation. What’s…

This week we commence a new series, ‘Abide In Me’. Whilst this phrase doesn’t appear in the Scriptures until John’s gospel, it has been God’s yearning from before the foundation of the world. As the great prophetic anthem declares, ‘I will be your God, and you will be my people’. God longs to have a…

Brian Arthur will be preaching this Sunday. He writes, “Three things have stirred my heart in coming to you this week and a fourth brought my theme into focus. I received a prophetic email from Ian Pennicook (from which I have taken my title); I read Ray’s précis for last week’s proclamation and over the…

Early in Luke we read that he wrote his gospel to Theophilus so that he might have certainty concerning the things he had been taught. As we conclude our series through Luke’s gospel this week, we hear of Jesus speaking to his disciples saying that everything about him in the Scriptures must be fulfilled. This…