Prevailing Prayer

09 June, 2025

In this talk we explore something of the motivation behind prevailing prayer as brought to us by the Spirit of the Lord, surprisingly, and unexpectedly, through the words of an unjust judge. Our Father means to meet with us daily as His fervently…

What's in as Name?

08 June, 2025

In Isaiah's prophecy in chapter 9 he calls the promised Messiah, among other names, Mighty God. Throughout both old testament and new testament times we look at the Mighty God by way of being encouraged that as He was in the past, so He still is…

Spiritual Sense

01 June, 2025

We consider the exclusively spiritual nature of life in Christ, and how every practical expression of the gospel in life and witness of those in Christ is by the power and enabling of the Holy Spirit. We are to have a clear and conscious…

21st Century Church Landscape

01 June, 2025

In these last days the apostle Paul spoke of perilous times when people would have the form of godliness but deny the power, among other moral degeneracy. We live in those days, and we see the degradation of society on a global scale. The Church…

Humility

25 May, 2025

Canvassing a wide range of scriptures we are shown the significance of humility, beginning of course in the Godhead, and wrought in man as he yields himself to the deep working of the Spirit of the Lord in his life.

This Generation

18 May, 2025

Jesus says, What we know we speak, and we bear witness to what we have seen. This illustrates the way of the true church of God which is obedient to the Spirit of truth and brings forth fruit, and speaks of Christ and Him crucified. We also consider…

The Covenant at Sinai

11 May, 2025

We look at the making, and the soon-breaking, of the covenant between Yahweh and Israel at Mt. Sinai. We also see into the significance of the second set of stone tablets, and Moses' shining face, as prophetic of the New Covenant in Christ.

Ears To Hear

27 April, 2025

The Lord Jesus tells us that to His own it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven, but to others it is not given. We consider something of why to some, and why not to others, and what it is that those to whom it is given gain, and…

The Gospel of the Empty Tomb

20 April, 2025

The tomb was empty, Jesus was exalted to glory, and the Spirit has come. We have taken up the cross, followed to death, been raised to newness of life. What place now does the cross take in our lives as we follow Jesus? We explore this briefly.

Mary Magdalene

18 April, 2025

Though mentioned so little in the gospels, Mary Magdalene presents to us that heart which is utterly devoted to Jesus, and has nowhere else to go, when all she has is a corpse in an inaccessible tomb. This is where we start with Jesus Christ…

The Everlasting Covenant

13 April, 2025

When God made the everlasting covenant with Abraham and the patriarchs He had in view the Gentiles as well as ethnic Israel. He also had in view, preeminently, His Son, and the Israel of God in Him. We see too the significance of circumcision as the…

The Coming of Christ

06 April, 2025

George sounds a warning in these days when there are many who come in Christ's name manifesting all manner of strange phenomena, claiming authenticity and deceiving, if possible, even the elect.

Covenant for the Land

23 March, 2025

Following Abram's believing the promise of God concerning his seed, God covenanted with Abram that his descendants should inherit the land of Canaan. In the process, a deep sleep, and an horror of great darkness fell upon Abram. In Christ and His…

God and Man in Covenant Relationship

16 March, 2025

In our ongoing quest after the understanding of the mysteries of the kingdom of God, we look at the beginning of God's making a covenant with Abram with a view to bringing His eternal Son, incarnate into the world in the all-encompassing eternal…

Priesthood unto Perfection

09 March, 2025

We consider Christ's high priesthood according to the order of Melchizedek. This culminates in the perfection of our union with God in the Spirit and Life of Christ, the one mediator between God and man.

The Milk and the Meat

02 March, 2025

Envying, strife, and divisions in the church are evidence of immaturity and carnality where those so ensnared are only fit for milk, and are unable to be fed the meat of the Word of God. Such have very limited knowledge of, or taste for, the deep…

Biblical Perspective on Old Age

23 February, 2025

We consider the significance of a long life on earth, and discover that a purposeful attitude that aims to gain wisdom, and especially that given by the Spirit of the Lord, will fit us for a fruitful sojourn prior to our eternal destiny.

Jacob Prevails as Israel

16 February, 2025

By way of coming to understand the meaning of the name/term "Israel" we have been following Jacob as God has progressively brought him to a repudiation of his own not inconsiderable devices and schemes. These he has exercised with all the integrity…

The Spirit Strives With Jacob

09 February, 2025

Jacob has encountered God en route to Haran, to obtain a wife from his father's family. He then spends twenty years of labour being rewarded with two wives and their maids, eleven sons and one daughter, and much livestock, menservants and…

This Beginning of Signs

02 February, 2025

The supreme exercise of His sovereignty in Jesus doing the will of His Father is hidden within this sign. Although it is brief, and the record of Jesus' words is minimal, nevertheless, as is ever the case, His words are spirit and life, at all times…

Jacob's Ladder

26 January, 2025

Having obtained the blessing of Isaac by trickery, Jacob is sent to Haran, for a wife, by Isaac. En route he encounters the Lord in a dream, and this encounter with God is the beginning of his gradual disarming of his strength and devices, that he…

Jacob's Straitness of Soul

19 January, 2025

Jacob craves the blessing of God; he has the blessing of Isaac by trickery and deceit, and he is bent upon the blessing of God. However, to have what he longs for he must be delivered of all his own energy and devices; he must be broken out of the…

Grow to Maturity

13 January, 2025

Ken encourages us in the process of growing to maturity in our faith in Jesus Christ. Central to this is our attention to the Spirit of the Lord in our daily lives, and our ongoing dependence upon Him and His provision.

The Living God Who Speaks

12 January, 2025

We look at God who speaks to us in the book of Hebrews, encouraging the Hebrew believers to go on to maturity - in particular, to graduate from the letter to the Spirit. This message from some years previously is a reminder, as we continue to walk…

Life and Destruction

05 January, 2025

The whole purpose of life, the meaning and direction we need in even the most mundane affairs of our lives, our families, marriages, work, and all our social intercourse in the society of men and women, is only found as it should be in the pre…

The Blessing of Isaac

29 December, 2024

In the course of tracing Jacob's spiritual development toward his being blessed by God, we consider his being blessed by Isaac, usurping the place of Esau, all in the order of the divine purpose according to the promise of Yahweh to Rebekah when the…

Peace to Men of Good Will

25 December, 2024

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, to men of goodwill." So spoke the heavenly host to the shepherds the night Christ, the Prince of Peace, was born in Bethlehem. We consider in the wake of this tremendous visitation of God in His…

Jacob Gains the Birthright

22 December, 2024

Esau, the skilful hunter, the man of the field, who minds earthly things, fails in the field, and, ready to "die", craves Jacob's lentil stew. Jacob, the plain man, who minds heavenly things, yet to really encounter God, who is nevertheless captive…

Jacob Was a Plain Man

15 December, 2024

A simple statement about Jacob within which is hidden rich meaning. As we pursue eventually the significance of the name Israel, whom Jacob was to become, we consider something of the meaning of this brief description of the man God loved.

Christ Our Scapegoat

08 December, 2024

From a series of sermons on the Atonement, we look at the scapegoat on the Day of Atonement, and how it prophetically anticipates the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world. This is our real deliverance from a life of sin, by the…

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