Posts Tagged: ‘Joel’

Give Us This Day

[A ‘Tuesday Challenge‘ originally prepared for the congregation of Horley Baptist Church during September 2025]

Don’t take from next month what belongs to next month[1]

These words were spoken by Grace Makutsi, a character in the series of books by Alexander McCall Smith under the general title of “The No1 Ladies’ Detective Agency”. The principle contains a certain amount of wisdom but is it practical?
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Contributor: Steve Humphreys

Sing It Again

[A ‘Tuesday Challenge’ originally prepared for the congregation of Horley Baptist Church during October 2024]

During the past few weeks we have been encouraged to think of worship as more than just singing songs on a Sunday morning. We heard five sermons exploring the impacts of a wider concept of worship.[1] Worship should:

  • engage our whole lives
  • offer us fresh insight
  • transform our ordinary actions
  • inspire our everyday communication
  • focus our wavering hearts

 
No doubt, when we heard those sermons we felt a desire to apply them but now, a few weeks later, has that resolution passed the same way as so many others? In short, do the words that we sing on Sunday still ring true on Tuesday morning? (more…)

Contributor: Steve Humphreys