Generally understood in legal terms, the atonement of Christ is actually much more than that. The presence, purity and favour of God Himself is at the heart of the atonement, and in this message we briefly overview a handful of new testament…
From Peter's second letter Ross emphasises our dependence upon the grace of God, particularly in respect of our faith, and our knowledge of the Lord. Faithful attendance upon this issues in fruitfulness in our lives.
While the world reels and struggles under the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, do we, the church, have a word from God, as to where He is and what He is doing? He intends that His people should be in the secret of His doings. Is this virus of God?
Jesus, questioned by the religious leaders concerning His teaching responded, "...he that seeks the glory of him who sent him is true and there is no unrighteousness in him." In the life of Judah, vis-a-vis his father Jacob with respect to firstly…
In a time of serious assault upon the Judea-Christian heritage in the western world by powers inimical to Christ, we look at Israel in the days of her spiritual declension prior to her exile, and also prior to her crucifixion of her Messiah, and in…
Beginning His ministry at a marriage, we see Jesus signalling the ultimate marriage - the Lamb and His Bride. After creation, shame came with sin and death. In the new creation Jesus removes the shame, uniting us with Himself, bringing to fulness the…
We are taken through the first fourteen verses of the first chapter of Paul's second letter to Timothy, by way of encouraging us to continue faithful in the face of suffering, and in the vigour of the Gift of God in the gospel. With Christ the centre…
Discipleship, or better, apprenticeship, with the Lord Jesus has the eternal principle of the Cross at the very heart of it. Expressed there is God, in eternal love, giving all of Himself to us, in Christ. In so doing, He wins from us our utter…
We view several verses of Psalm 118 by way of seeing the Holy Spirit's prophetic nowness with some of the events of the week of Jesus final entry into Jerusalem, and His crucifixion and resurrection.
In Peter's mother-in-law we see a picture of the Church set free to serve the Lord and one another in the will of God, that we might proceed from the revelation of the Son in us, to our destiny of the revelation of the Son in fulness through us as…
Through the lens of the incident where the man of much wealth quizzes Jesus about the "price" required to obtain eternal life, Ross considers the only access being via the matchless worth of Christ.
The true church of Jesus Christ in the western world has lost over the centuries, and continues to lose, an immense amount of credibility such that in our day we live in a post-christian society. As Jesus, on earth, had no honour in His own "country…
During the global pandemic and the isolation governments have required, this is a time to attend to what is most essential in our life in God; namely, a deep, spiritual, fellowship with Jesus.
Continuing a series of talks tracing the progression of the unfolding of the salvation history of God's bringing to pass of His eternal purpose from the Old Testament to the New Testament, Ross briefly covers the transition from law to grace.
From the Fall in Genesis through to Jesus' coming and atoning sacrifice on the cross, Ross briefly traces the spiritual history of Israel in the course of God bringing His Messiah into the world.
As we consider the faith of the Syro-Phoenician woman who pled with Jesus to deliver her demonically possessed daughter, we discover the riches of the Lord made freely available to the implicitly trusting heart.
At the heart of the Christian life is prayer. In this brief message Ross looks at some of its perennially salient features.
In the grip of the fear of death, Jesus' disciples discover a dimension of the mastery this Man has over the forces of nature, and from the incident we learn something of what it means for us to have passed from death to life in Jesus.
We look at the way the apostles come to terms with the wonder of the resurrection of Jesus, after the desolation of His crucifixion.
Terry overviews the Life we have in Jesus, covering various aspects such as meaning, security, love, fulfillment, satisfaction, significance, identity and acceptance, which he cites as stabilizing elements of our relationship with the Lord worth…
From Paul's letter to the Ephesians, we look at the Unity of the Spirit, and the Unity of the Faith, and this parallel line of thought with being on the Foundation of Christ, and then building upon that foundation, and the relevance of that to our…
With reference to the passages in the apostle John's first letter, in which John speaks of what we, in Christ, know and are assured of, Bob encourages us in difficult days concerning the power and security we have in Jesus as we trust in Him in…
With the Lord's illustration of the Vine and the branches from John 15 in mind, we see the centrality of Christ to the life, fruitfulness and indestructibility of His Church.
Paul's "heavenly vision" (Acts 26:19) - "For me to live is Christ" - was the foundation that lay behind all he was and did in his life's service of Jesus. Paul is set forth as an example for us all, that we should be solidly on the same foundation…
In this message on prayer we are urged above all to surrender ourselves to the Lord in all seasons of prayer, seeking His will and purpose, and guarding against the intrusion of our own preferred agenda.
We look at Paul's "heavenly vision" in his defence before king Agrippa, by way of uncovering the meaning of "vision" in both the lives of individual believers, and how that works out in the local assembly.
John's account of Jesus walking on the water is brief in the extreme. When we look into it though, in the wider context of Jesus' whole manner of living, we find inspiring implications for our own knowledge of the Lord and our life in Him.
In this final sign in John's gospel we see the Lord in His third post-resurrection appearance to the disciples, moving them from the apprehension of Himself according to the outward apprearance, to that of inward spiritual illumination in…
Having complete mastery of death, Jesus was delivered to death, by way of bringing life to us. Now, in Him, we who live are likewise delivered to death - devotion to the will of God - that Jesus' life might be manifest in us as we overcome in His…
Looking briefly at Jonah's ministry in the light of the truth that we are called of God and equipped to be a blessing, Rob encourages us to seek real connection with those we are sent to share the gospel with.