Archive for 'Church'
Our love for one another
‘This is My commandment, that you love another as I have loved you’ (John 15:12). I wonder whether you’ve ever asked yourselves, ‘Why did our Lord call this commandment His commandment?’ This was His commandment in [...]
God’s forgiveness and ours
One of our children once said of me to her brother, ‘He’s getting just like granddad!’ She had noticed that I was showing the marks of getting older – so I was not altogether pleased. Generally [...]
One mission
When we at Bethel Church, Clydach were considering how better to reach our community with the gospel, one idea was to run a week-long mission. It had been a very long time since we’d done anything [...]
Gospel churches working together
In Bridgend there are several evangelical churches that for the last few years have been forging a strong partnership. This does not sound unusual until you understand this is neither a lowest-common-denominator ecumenical movement, nor a [...]
A disunited church
Learning lessons from the church at Corinth The Bible has a lot to say about unity amongst God’s people. We can read stories of united churches (Acts 2 and 6), hear Jesus pray for unity amongst [...]
The story of community
I wonder how you would summarise the gospel message. There is a version which runs something like this: ‘God made you to know Him, but you have rejected God. Your sin cuts you off from God [...]
United we stand
Unity! That is the theme in this issue. But read on. For the subject is more important than you may realise. And there are so many facets to it which impinge on individual Christian living, church [...]
Me! A member?
‘Membership’ can be a funny concept. You can be a member of a golf club, or a swimming club; you can be a member of a political party, or a professional body; you can belong to [...]
Sisters, servants, fellow-workers
If you ever go to the cinema, do you watch to the end? If you are like me, you watch the final scene and when the theme music rises and credits start to roll that is [...]
Where have all the young men gone?
The title of this article encapsulates a current concern in church as well as mission: the lack of British young men coming forward for preaching and mission ministries. The answer is not simple or clear. I [...]
Reaching rural Wales
Great to read this. I've been doing a similar thing, going around rura
A little known quarryman in Wales
Thank you for your wonderful article. I happened onto the movie, "Bey
So you have no children?
Thank you so much for writing this article. It is very comforting. It'
The great harvest
I live and worship in Yeadon, in a church born out of the revival. It
Feminine Threads
I was interested in the above review of Diana Severance's book. Althou