It is Christmas day. Let us celebrate Immanuel, God with us.

Maybe you think there isn’t much to think about Joseph! We know his world came crashing down on hearing his fiancé was pregnant. Let us see if there is a message in the person and character of Joseph.

Let us think about the genealogy of Jesus, and his roots and discover that we can be rooted in him.

Today we read about the unexpected visit of Angel Gabriel to Mary.

As we put up our Christmas trees, let us think about the earliest of Advent Trees - the Jesse Tree and ask who should we be rooted in this Advent season?

As an Northern Irish Protestant I never heard the word ‘Advent’ not in church, not in our home - we would never even light a candle. But What is it? When will it be? Why is it important? Let us have some answers.

When Jesus shared a drama in three Acts about forgiveness, he was speaking about his favourite subject: the Kingdom of God. What can we learn from the forgiving king. How can forgiven people become forgiving people?

In this final chapter of 2 Timothy, we can see three sections, Paul’s Herald, Paul’s Handover and Paul’s Huddle. Want to discover more? Let us delve deeper.

‘All scripture is God breathed’ is a well-known memory verse. ‘God breathed’ implies that Scripture is brought into existence by God, not that writers wrote it and God rubber-stamped it. For sure it is profitable, shall we explore?

Paul instructs Timothy to correctly handle the Word of truth, so there must be a correct and an incorrect way to handle the word of truth. Today the church is desperately in need of people who will correctly handle the scriptures.

This is Paul’s last letter ever written and in it, he is handing over the leading of the local church to Timothy. People who nurtured Timothy in the faith are named. Interesting, let us look into it further.

What has resurrection to do with Remembrance Sunday?
Lets us tune in to find out.

When God looks at us he sees our potential. To rephrase that we have many opportunities to shine for him (i.e. to glorify him). Let us see what this parable teaches us.

Zacchaeus was transformed by his encounter with Jesus. What do we know about this tax man who received a make-over from the inside out? Let us delve deeper into the story.

As Christians, can we really receive forgiveness for our huge sin-debt and then withhold forgiveness from others? Easier said than done - let us explores further

Another talk about prayer, posture this time. In the presence of God we learn to say Kyrie Eleison

The Lords Prayer teaches how to pray as Jesus taught us to pray. In this all age drama we learn more about prayer.

to wonder is to be filled with amazement or awe. How can we be wonder-ful people? Psalm 8 is an outburst of praise that we can learn from, let us enter in.

In the second message from Paul’s second letter to timothy we are charged with handling the Word with care.

The Gospel is good news. If it is news it has already happened, it is all about what Christ has done for us on the cross and through the resurrection. All the glory goes to our Saviour. Let us delve deeper.