No doubt you've already heard it said that most new year resolutions are broken before the end of the first day!  How good it is to have a God who is always consistent, never breaks his word and follows through on every plan!  Here's looking forward to all that 2012 will bring in His strength.....

This Christmas at HT we are reflecting that four times in the nativity story the message comes 'Don't be afraid'.  In fact, God says it at least another 361 times in other places in the Bible (one for every day!)
It was a necessary message for those extraordinary events undoubtedly; but also a key message for our times?  Read more ...

Children always ask the best questions.....
4 year old Luke asked me today: why can't you see heaven?  What would you have replied?
I said 'you can - it just depends what you're looking for'.   Read more ...

Lots of Christians have been brought up with the idea that they need to find their gift and then they can ask God what to do with it.  Liberating or stifling? Seems to me that it leaves lots of us stuck around waiting for the big revelation.  Read more ...

A great time on Sunday at the Prophecy Seminar....at the end of the session I asked
Who had felt nervous at the beginning - all hands went up!
Who had felt blessed by God as a result of the process of taking it in turns to pray and share - all hands went up!
Who had felt that God had used the time to share something special or distinctive that no-one praying could have known about - most hands went up!
Thank you our wonderful God!!! Read more ...

Hi HT - just an encouragement to come along to two things this weekend......
Tomorrow morning we have out church prayer meeting from 9.15-10.00am.....remember the TV advert slogan 'one call does it all'?!  (And it is a well know fact that bacon rolls eaten in the coffee shop after prayer contain no calories.) Read more ...

Next up in our series on Prayer - over the first three Sundays in July we are taking a look at the Lord's Prayer - what is the pattern for prayer that Jesus gives us? Read more ...

Approaching the end of our summer sermon series on prayer, we were thinking on Sunday about Jesus' teaching on the need to be alert in our prayers.  To 'watch and pray', both for those who want to steal our hearts away from God and for the signs of his kingdom - his rule in the world and in our lives.  
Here is a summary of what I said... Read more ...

Notes and study questions for Part 2 of our series on prayer....solitude  

At the key ‘big’ moments but also weaved through his life: Read more ...

We're off!  Our Summer series on prayer begins with a close look at what Jesus modelled to his first disciples.  
It is liberating to know that real, life-giving, relational prayer is something we all need to learn - the first disciples were no doubt well-versed in formal prayers but after observing Jesus they desired something of a different quality (Luke 11:1 - Lord teach us to pray...').   Read more ...