Acts 2:1-4. At the feast of Pentecost, we remember the birth of the church and the advent of the Holy Spirit. Now we have been baptised into the body of Christ and the blessings of the New Covenant our ours to enjoy in the power of the Holy Spirit, not under the law, but under […]

Acts 1:3-14. For the 49 days between the Feast of Firstfruits and Pentecost (Shavuot) the Jewish people would practise the “Counting of the Omer”. What did that mean for Jesus and the disciples at that first Pentecost? How can this apply to our lives as Christians today? 

1 Peter 2:25. How do we closely follow our Good Shepherd? How is repentance an ongoing and liberating process? What do the Scriptures teach us about the role of our my minds and speech in staying close to the Lord and walking in the Spirit?  

Ephesians 3:1-13. Although God has united all believers, from all nations, into one spiritual body called “the Church”, not all Christians experience the life of that body. Where there is legalism, pride, traditionalism, or familiarity, the life of the body is diminished. Where there is grace, humility, unity and a living faith, we taste and […]

Ephesians 2:11-22. As Gentiles unbelievers, we were without Christ, without God, without hope, and outsiders to the covenants of God. But now, in Christ, we have been brought near by the blood and reconciled together, both Jew and Gentile, in one body. In His house all are accepted and included in the love and grace […]