The uniqueness of the Son
This week, we’re continuing our way through the Apostles’ Creed and move from confessing God the Father to God the Son. Words get misused all the time. People will talk about literally doing things when they mean metaphorically. But no word gets misused quite like unique. It’s a word that’s treated like a spectrum, where […]
I Believe
On Sunday, we recited the Apostle’s Creed together. Inspired by this, it seems good for us to take a few weeks to be reminded of what we believe so that we know how to discern what is false when we come across it. To be a Christian is to believe that God is real, mighty, […]
This week’s notices
I’ve mentioned before about the need for our church to be making disciples. This is the charge that we have been given by the Lord Jesus and it is what everything we do as a church revolves around. We are being discipled (or more properly, disciplined) all of the time in the church. When we […]
That you may live long in the land
One of the things that we are sort of used to thinking about is God as Holy Trinity. We rightly, boldly, and humbly confess that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The doctrine of the Trinity is what distinguishes Christians from heretical churches like the Latter Day Saints, JWs, and Islam, to name a […]
How to see change
Yesterday, I spoke of how the life of Jacob speaks of the gospel. He was given God’s promise for the sake of his fathers before him. And alongside receiving that promise, he regularly told people of the God who had been with him all his life. For us, this should be incredibly encouraging. Because the […]
Discipleship Explored
Before he ascended, Jesus offered these words to the apostles: This is often called the Great Commission and what we see throughout the New Testament is that the apostles work really hard to see that this is fulfilled. They are so intent on doing as the Lord Jesus instructed them that they are willing to […]
A tremendous gift and challenge
While studying and preparing to preach on the doctrine of salvation by faith alone, I have been slowly reading through Romans in my own devotional time. There is much overlap between what I ultimately preached and what I had spent time meditating on. The reality of faith being a gift which is grown and strengthened […]
Reading Scripture
If you would like to receive these updates via a weekly email, you can sign up for our newsletter at this link. One of the things that I think is helpful for everyone is to spend time simply reading and listening to Scripture together. When we do this, we find solidarity with our brothers and […]
Coming up at Ardgowan Square
We are back from a couple of weeks visiting family and while there, we had the opportunity to experience every kind of weather. There was sunshine, rain, snow (three times!), thunder and lightning, and wind that made all of the leafless trees creak like old houses. As I continue to recover from jet lag, let […]
No accidents
To follow the Lord is the recognise that there is no such thing as a coincidence. At any given moment, in ways unknown to us, God is at work. It is not that he is constantly having to create, for the work of creation finished on the sixth day, but he is sustaining and upholding […]