Minister’s Message – October 27, 2024

Bible reading: Job 38:1-7, 34-41.

There’s an old chestnut of a story which goes like this. A small child is painting a picture. Like most small children’s pictures, it’s just a mishmash of colours, so the child’s teacher gently asks what it’s supposed to be depicting. The child of course knows what they’re painting and confidently states, “It’s a picture of God”. The teacher is rather taken aback and says, “But no-one knows what God looks like”. “Well”, comes the response, “They will know when I’ve finished”.

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Minister’s Message – October 13, 2024

Bible reading: Job 1:1 then 2:1-10.

Message.

I’m sure that there are many reasons which lead to people losing their faith. Some folk simply stop believing in God, possibly because they never graduated from the faith they were taught as a child and can’t cope with the issues thrown up by the grown-up world. Others start questioning the truth of the Bible: did Jesus and Mary, Moses and Joshua, Adam and Eve, really exist, or are those stories just fables? Some people give up on faith because of the corruption, abuse and bad behaviour they see in churches: how can believing people behave in such appalling ways? Yet others find the pressures of family, life and work squeezing the time for church and faith until none is left.

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Minister’s Message – September 29, 2024

Bible reading: James 5:13-20.

We often read the Bible, especially the New Testament, in a very personal way. When Jesus says. or when Paul (or any of the other authors) writes, “You should do this” or “You shouldn’t do that”, we tend to think that they are speaking to us as individuals. Indeed, we may even believe that God himself is trying to tell us something – and perhaps he is! We need to make sure that we are listening to him.

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