In this introductory message to our new series, ‘A Christological perspective of the justice of God revealed through the minor prophets of the Old Testament,’ Pastor Charles Fleming explores the relationship, and the challenges of justice and forgiveness. Is forgiveness easier when justice is apparent? What does God require if there is no justice in […]
Life throws a lot at us, and sometimes we don’t feel particularly ready or equipped to cope with what’s going on. It’s easy to end up in a place where we feel that we’ve tried everything and that nothing works, we just can’t find the way forward. According to statistics, 5,000 people under the age […]
If you’ve ever felt discouraged or felt like giving up this is a message for you. As part of our ‘Jesus is building His Church’ series ‘And we are co-labourers with Him,’ Pastor Charles Fleming encourages us to keep going in God’s purposes even when we feel as though we’ve tried before and things didn’t […]
How do we trust a God we can’t see if we don’t trust the people who we’re in relationship with? Linda Jenkins shares her testimony about the work that the Holy Spirit is doing in her life regarding learning to trust God and people more. And Pastor Charles Fleming looks at just how settled God’s […]
Rom 1:20 Tells us that although God is invisible He can be seen through what He has created and the order of the world He has made. In this message Pastor Charles Fleming poses the question, what do we learn regarding the power of belonging to the family of God through what we see in […]
Sometimes what lies ahead can seem quite daunting, even overwhelming, perhaps with the odds for success potentially stacked against us. If we ever feel like that we can take encouragement from the Israelite king who had the responsibility to lead the Jews from their exile in Babylon back to Jerusalem with a view to them […]
If you ever feel disqualified from serving the purposes of God this message will resonate with you. Continuing our series, ‘Jesus is building His Church, and we are called as His co-labourers,’ Pastor Charles Fleming uses Zechariah 3:1-5 to examine the way that Satan causes those who are called by God to feel conflicted and […]
As Christians we know that we’re supposed to have faith but we can find that we’re fearful just like anyone else. Do we just have to do our best to fight our fears, or does scripture show us what God’s solution is? In this message Pastor Charles Fleming examines how Queen Esther overcame fear in […]
Scripture has many examples of fatherhood, some good and others bad. In an age where many seem increasingly confused or uncertain regarding what fatherhood is, Pastor Charles Fleming examines the father-like qualities of Nehemiah towards the people of Israel as they are reestablished in their own land after their exile in Babylon. It reveals the […]
Continuing our current series is the statement, ‘Jesus Is Building His Church And We Are Co-Labourers With Him,’ just a spiritual issue or does it have practical implications as far as church buildings go? In this message, Pastor Charles Fleming questions how much our personal taste and preferences influence what we are prepared to invest […]
Life is fleeting, it can be hazardous, we can feel afflicted from all sides, it can be very hard work, we often feel the toil of it, so in all of this how on earth do we find and maintain joy? In this message Pastor Charles Fleming explores some of the things that the bible […]
In every generation people are recorded as being aghast at the depths of moral decay taking place around them. Is it feasibly possible to be indifferent to the level of immorality now pervading our nation? What can be challenging is how not to feel utterly overwhelmed by it all and end up feeling paralysed by […]
Pastor Charles Fleming continues our series: ‘Jesus Is Building His Church; and We Are Co-Labourers With Him,’ by sharing the incredible account of the Old Testament Priest and Scribe Ezra, who was a servant of the Babylonian king, Artaxerxes, and the way in which the king commissioned and resourced Ezra for the purpose of going […]
We have a natural propensity to compare ourselves with others, our consumerist culture encourages us in this. Does this comparison-driven culture affect our churches? In this message Pastor Charles Fleming looks at how the people who had seen Solomon’s temple compared its glory to the new temple that the Jews returning from exile built when […]
If you’ve ever committed yourself to God’s purposes and then had so much opposition that you began to regret ever starting in the first place, then this message is for you. Pastor Charles Fleming encourages and challenges, in equal measure for us to build with God; if God is supporting us and standing with us […]