GracePoint Church, Kikuyu. Sermon – 30th March 2025 Passage: 1 Kings 19: 1- 21. Big Idea: God’s people find their hope in God through the hard seasons of life in God’s gracious provisions of prayer, rest, His word and His work. Introduction: The journey of the believer is full of many difficulties. Pain and sufferingContinue reading “Hope for the Discouraged”
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What Did You Expect?
A joke is told of a pastor who was asked what he does for much of the week since he only preaches one sermon on Sunday and the questioner thought surely there must be other things that the pastor does between Monday and Saturday. The pastor’s answer was straight and to the point: panicking. ThereContinue reading “What Did You Expect?”
Shepherding Saints, Sinners and Sufferers
Many of us will be familiar with the dual identity of the believer in Christ as a saint and sinner. A lot more recently I begun hearing a third aspect of our identity – sufferer which I suppose, though true, is a derivative of the other two. The idea of Saints, Sinners and Sufferers hasContinue reading “Shepherding Saints, Sinners and Sufferers”
Online Communion? No Thanks
Why are we not having communion? Someone called me recently enquiring whether we should prepare for online celebration of the Lord’s supper now that yesterday was the last Sunday in April and as usual, we celebrate communion every last Sunday of the month. My answer was simple, perhaps because I had thought through the issueContinue reading “Online Communion? No Thanks”
Mid Week Reflection – True Gospel Love
Mid-week Reflection 4th July 2019 Text: 3 John Topic: What Does True Gospel Love Look Like? When I was growing up, the Daily Nation used to run a comic strip series called ‘Love Is…’ I have since learnt that the cartoons were done by a New Zealand artist called Kim Grove initially for her futureContinue reading “Mid Week Reflection – True Gospel Love”
