1 Samuel 27:1-28:2 Desperate Us Have you ever felt desperate? Have you ever felt that your troubles were so insurmountable that there was just no way out except to do something drastic? Have you ever thought that if things didn’t …
1 Samuel 26 Lesson learnt Sometimes it takes a near disaster to properly learn a lesson. When I was about 22 years of age I had a car accident in my four-wheel drive. I managed to write off the vehicle …
1 Samuel 25 What were they thinking? Sometimes parents give their children very unusual names that are so odd that you end up asking yourself ‘what were those parents thinking of?’ Did they lose their minds or something? Don’t …
1 Samuel 18-20 Friend or foe? How do you deal with the success of others? How do you cope when someone around you at work seems to be doing much better than you? It is them getting notice. It …
1 Samuel 16 Choosing a leader Choosing a someone to lead any group of people is a difficult task. It’s a difficult task It must be a difficult task because we so often get it wrong. Often the very leader …
Luke 5:17-32 Criticism One of the things that anyone in the public eye experiences is criticism. Some public figures seem to get an awful lot of it. I would hate to be a the UK PM, Theresa May at …
Proverbs 3:1-18 Approaches to parenting Over the last few Sundays we have been looking at what it means to be a parent. Today I want us to think a little more about the role that parents have been given …
Isaiah 53:6, Luke 15:11-31 “If only” Sometimes we tell ourselves as parents that “if only our kids were better behaved we wouldn’t get so angry” or “if only they wouldn’t always argue with me, I wouldn’t have to …
Ephesians 6:1-4; Deuteronomy 6:1-9 ________________________ Confused and Lost Have you ever felt lost as a parent or perhaps at least in danger of losing your way? The author, Paul Tripp suggests that may parents get lost …
