While our different activities vary in style to be inclusive and relevant for everyone, central to them all is our firm belief in the authority of Scripture as the necessary pattern for daily living and pathway to assurance of eternity with God. Hence, the emphasis we place on Bible teaching and the encouragement of personal Bible study.
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. I have taken an oath and confirmed it, that I will follow your righteous laws. I have suffered much; preserve my life, O Lord, according to your word. Accept, O Lord, the willing praise of my mouth, and teach me your laws. Though I constantly take my life in my hands, I will not forget your law. The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from your precepts. Your statutes are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart. My heart is set on keeping your decrees to the very end.
Psalm 119: 105-112
Everyone approaches the Bible with presuppositions. No one comes to the Bible with an open mind. Some approach the Bible with unbelief. Others approach it with belief. With this in mind we turn to Mark’s Gospel Chapter 5 It is the account of the healing of the demon passed man. Mark does not tell this story just so that we might know…
John Bottomley began by describing a walk along the shore of Gott Bay on a calm evening, when the sound of the fishing boats traveled across the water so clearly. He told how Jesus . . . and that’s where we take up how Jesus has power over wind and wave. A fact that has…
Derek Campbell takes up Mark 4:30ff and applies this parable which told by all 4 Gospel Writers to our lives today.
Following on from Pentecost Luke records life in the very early church as They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. What does that look like today?
Ursula Millar takes us into God’s Word, to Luke 7:1-10, where see the glory (the wonder of Jesus Person and Being) in another act of compassion where he has the Authority to heal at a distance.
Alan Millar takes us into God’s Word to two healing miracles, one found in Luke 5:17ff and the other in John 9:1ff. In what way do we see the glory of Jesus? What significance does this phrase have for us today?
Esme MacFarlane from Glasgow introduces the new series ‘We Saw His Glory’ by opening up John Chapter 1:14. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Living in a fractured society, how are the family of God to relate to one another? We return to the Book of 1 Thessalonians ad to the command to build one another up.
John Bottomley takes into God’s Word as we seek to serve our risen Lord Jesus on the Island of Tiree.
The Oxford Dictionaries defines an ambassador as: ‘An accredited diplomat sent by a state as its permanent representative in a foreign country.’ Tragically to this day the church has failed in this respect. It has not been a faithful ambassador for Christ. It has not been a true representation of its Lord and Master. In this context we ask the question,…