The Pharisees and Sadducees had had their turn in asking Jesus hard questions in order to test Him and entangle Him in His words. Now the shoe would be on the other foot, as Jesus didn’t let them retreat too far! He asked them a question of His own. I like this quote from R.C.Sproul, “If His answers made them look foolish, His questions removed any doubt!” That reminds me of people who try to wade into theological debates that they aren’t capable or trained well enough in. When asked to back up......

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Here we have “Round 4” of the theological battles between Jesus and various religious groups. This time, Jesus meets The Pharisees again, and they have put for their “Mighty Warrior”, to try to test Jesus with a trick question, so see if He knew the Law as well as they did. To watch the video from today, just click on this link!...

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In this episode Jesus took on another religious group called The Sadducees. They existed between 187 BC up until around the time of the destruction of The Temple in 70 AD. There were various factions and points of view amongst the religious leaders of the first century, and there were ongoing disputes between The Pharisees and The Sadducees. They had different points of views on a number of things. See particularly Acts 23:8 that tells us some of the differences between these two groups. However, they had a common enemy, and it......

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Here we see Jesus being confronted by a mix of the disciples of The Pharisees (who likely just repeat arguments they heard from their teachers), and The Herodians. They usually did not see eye-to-eye, but now they have a common enemy – Jesus. Would He fall into their trap? By the way the batteries for the wireless mic died during the sermon, and were replaced, and you might notice “a glitch” there! To watch the video of this morning, click on this link!...

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Many people are able to quote the verse: “Many are called, but few are chosen”, but they may not know where to find it in the Bible. And many of those same people like to quote that verse out of context simply because they are either not aware of the context or they don’t care about context. So we can be sure to get a LOT of comments by the armchair, or kitchen chair, theologians who have their views on what the text means. But at least by seeing the verse in......

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Today as a church we installed Eddie Manley as an Elder in our church and Ninfa shared a word of exhortation about serving! Eric Nugent led worship! Click here for the full video!...

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This morning we had worship led by Eric Nugent, and a message brought to us by Edd Manley, with the help of Nicky. Of course this was good spiritual food. But afterward we had great food and fellowship! To watch the full video from today, just click on this link!...

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He left the splendour of heaven, knowing His destiny! For the full version of today’s Christmas Eve Service, 2023, click on this link!...

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This morning we had worship led by Eric Nugent, and a message brought to us by Edd Manley, with the help of Nicky. Of course this was good spiritual food. But afterward we had great food and fellowship! To watch the full video from today, just click on this link!...

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It is clear from this parable that Jesus was speaking to the Jewish Religious leaders and they are caught in a conflict. In this parable Jesus spoke of the rejection of The Son, and how he would be shamefully treated. In this case The ‘beloved son‘ was cast out of the vineyard and killed. Then Jesus quoted to them a similar metaphor of rejection, where it is The Stone which the builder rejected that ends up being the Chief Cornerstone for a new building project. That Stone was Christ our Living Rock, and people are either going to stumble over this rock, or they are going to be part of His building project,......

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