Rev Ian S McNaughton
Do you find joy in loving God?
Stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with others. Read about the greatest story ever told!
I hope that the Christmas account is something you believe in?
It is recorded for us in the Gospels of St Matthew and St Luke and it is an account full of love, loyalty, courage, faith and mystery. It...
“This is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions...
‘Those who trust in the Lord’ (Ps.125:1)
Living the Christian life means that we are to trust God at all times. However trusting in the Lord does not come naturally to us but trusting, said Martin Luther ‘is the plain...
It is in God’s plan that we grieve
“Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her” (Gen. 23:2b)
Bereavement brings many strong emotions to the surface. These may be a sense of utter worthlessness, absolute despair, guilt,...
“This is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions...
“Hear my prayer, O Lord… For the enemy has persecuted my soul” (Ps. 143:3)
When in prayer, it is essential to lay every feeling (the heart), thought (the mind), and desire (the will) of the soul before God. When...
My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?" (Job 1:8).
Following on from Suffering in the Book of Job - Part 1, we...
In John chapters 13–17 we have what is called ‘the final discourse’. Chapter 13 opens with these words: ‘Jesus knew that His hour had come and He should depart from this world to the Father’ (13:1).
Before...