This is week three of our challenges to live out the command of Jesus to love God and love others. Last week, Ronnie spoke on the call for God’s people to lay aside their pride and entitlement, and look outwardly for opportunities to serve others. This week, our challenge is one small way that we…
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George Bernard Shaw, following in the footsteps of Sinclair Lewis, once challenged God to strike him down in order to prove the existence of the divine. He gave God three minutes, much less than the ten minutes proffered by Lewis, as he declared that he was ‘a very busy man’. Three minutes passed, and God…
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As we enter the second week of a year of practical challenges in our faith, we move from the personal to the communal. In Jesus’ command for us to love God and love others, he shows that our faith is not something to be lived out on our own, in isolation, but in a family…
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Grime/Hip Hop is a world of contradictions, and Wretch 32 is no exception to this. In this song we see the transformation of Mr 32 from a London taxi’s only competition [almost as big, slick, quick, black, and upper London] to a wreck of a man, desperate to keep hold of some new love. It’s…
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In the evening services here at Firwood, we are currently making our way through a series entitled ‘Make War‘, which finds it’s inspiration in John Owen’s book, ‘The Mortification of Sin’. Jonny Evans (web design extraordinaire) recently designed this great offering based on the series, containing a great quote from Owen’s work: “Do you mortify;…
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Years ago, I and some friends joined a new gym that had opened up in the area. I remember the first time we all went together; We spent the afternoon trying to ‘out-lift’ each other with the various weight sets. I did quite well – it turns out that I have the strongest legs of…
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Andy Evans begins this new series leading up to Easter 2011 by telling of the seeming paradox of the gospel; How can this brutal murder of the Son of God, a moment of most horrendous suffering, also be a moment so full of glory? Andy speaks from Luke’s account of Jesus’ post-resurrection appearance to two…
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Last Easter, a few of us here at Firwood decided to read through Don Carson’s ‘Scandalous‘ together throughout Holy Week, the week leading up to Good Friday and Easter Sunday. It was a great experience, and we posted our thoughts on each chapter throughout the week. This year, we’re doing it again; with a different…
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Over the past few weeks we’ve had the joy of baptising a number of people here at Firwood Church. It has been awesome. One of the great things about baptism services is the opportunity to hear the stories of those being baptised. Stories of what they were like, how they became a Christian, and what…
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I recently published a post responding to the question of whether ‘the Church’ is a necessary part of being a christian. One of the reasons many christians find themselves asking this question is that they view the Church as falling short of what Jesus requires of it; It is full of hypocrites and messed up…
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