Next Service

Our next outreach service will take place on 19th February 2011, 3pm @ Westburn Hall. As of April I’m planning to increase the frequency of services to twice a month. Come along on the 19th food fellowship and Bible teaching.

Next Outreach Service

Our next service will take place in Westburn Hall, Northbank Avenue on 15th January 2012 @ 3pm. We’re going to move our studies away from a theme and begin to consecutively study 1 Peter. What a marvellous book! It is the living hope of the Christian. What blessings are ours in Christ! Come along and enjoy!

Jesus is the Life – John 14:6

What is it these days with zombies? Kids books are dominated by the walking dead. Films are filled with zombies, even blockbusters filmed in Glasgow. I guess it all started when Mary Shelley decided to give her friends a fright by writing a book about a zombie-monster called ‘Frankenstein‘. But today, the living dead are everywhere. People are morbidly fascinated by the idea of life after death. It seems to me that there’s a subliminal, sub-conscious cry going out from our society today saying, “we’ve been told by the atheists that death is the end, but we know that it’s not true.“

The good news of the Gospel is that there is life, full and free, in Jesus Christ. When He says in John 14:6, “I am the life“, He wants us to understand that you don’t need to leave your senses behind and believe in zombies to have life after death, but that you can have His eternal life within you today and beyond death. In Jesus is true, dynamic life – life offered free of charge and with no hidden catches. There are 3 elements of Jesus as the life I want to us to explore together: first, life in Jesus; secondly, life from Jesus and lastly, life for Jesus. My prayer is that each of us would be filled with the life of Jesus, fully equipped for living as a Christian in today’s Scotland.

 

Next two outreach service dates in Cambuslang

The next outreach service will be held in Westburn hall on Sunday 27th November @ 3pm. The December service will be held on the 3rd Sunday, which is the 18th December. The December service will be a special outreach service. We’ll be putting leaflets and invitations round the neighbourhood prior to that date and you may want to bring your friends along. Early in the new year, by popular demand, we plan to go to 2x a month.

Next Outreach Service in Cambuslang

Our next service will be held on 16th October, 3pm @ Westburn Hall. This month we’re going to be looking at what Jesus meant in John 14:6 when He said, “I am the life”. Come and learn about the life which is to be found in Jesus. Enjoy fellowship and feeding (both spiritual and physical). All are very welcome. See you there.

Next Outreach Service

The next outreach service will take place on 21st August @ 3pm. We’ll be looking at what it means for Jesus to say, “I am the Truth”. Come along – we live in a postmodern age where truth is relative but everyone is asking, ‘what is truth’. Come and here how Jesus is the truth. You’ll be given a very warm welcome.

Next Service

The next outreach service will take place on July 17th, 3pm @ Westburn Hall. In our studies in the ‘I am’ sayings of Jesus we have reached John 14:6a – “I am the Way”. Come along. You’ll be refreshed by our service of worship and our fellowship together. Worship and friendship. See you there.

Jesus – the Resurrection and the Life

John 11:21-27

 

‘Choosing to die’ was the title of a BBC Documentary aired last week. Introduced by Sir Terry Pratchett, ‘Choosing to die’ followed the last few days of people who were determined to end their lives at the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland. Now any fair reading of the Bible leads us to conclude that Euthanasia, or the taking of one’s own life – literally, a ‘good death’ – is wrong. But the point is that millions of normal people tuned in to watch a retired hotelier drink a potion of poisons which killed him. Even though terrified of it, people are morbidly fascinated by death. Like rabbits caught in the headlights of car, we stare into the face of death and, like the famous painting by Edvard Munch, issue a silent, terrified scream.

 

It is for people who hate and fear death but are also morbidly fascinated by it Jesus says, “I am the resurrection and the life.” In John 11, Jesus is confronted by the worst of situations – two sisters have lost their brother Lazarus. He became ill and died. Here we have the ultimate wall, the ultimate barrier – human death – what can Jesus do about it? The Dignitas Clinic inSwitzerland doesn’t give life, but takes it away. Can Jesus give life? Can Jesus raise the dead? Does He have the answers to the human fixation and fear of death? In this fifth of the ‘I am’ sayings of Jesus, He says to us, “I am the resurrection and the life.” I want to look at three things concerning the truth of Jesus being the resurrection and the life: first, this is a truth for us; secondly, this is a truth for life and lastly, this is a truth for faith.

 

Next Service – 19th June 2011 @ 3pm

Our next outreach service wil be taking place on 19th June, 3pm at Westburn Hall. We are going to be exploring Jesus’s saying in John 10:25 – “I am the Resurrection and the Life”. We’re going to put hundreds of invitations for the service out round the local community. Please come along and enjoy the preaching and fellowship.

Jesus – Shepherd of the Sheep

John 10:11-16

 Do you ever get the wrong image of someone and what they do? Most mornings, I get a train into town to go to my study in the Church. The train is packed with people going to work and sometimes, I look at them and wonder what they do for a living. Is that gentleman in a suit an accountant; is that girl wearing an attractive dress and high heels a shop assistant; is that young man wearing jeans and steel toe-capped boots a joiner? Perhaps I’ve got it all wrong and the guy in the suit is a criminal with a court appearance; the girl in high heels a student and the young man with jeans a lawyer on his day-off. We tend to have a romantic, slightly effeminate view of shepherds – soft men playing with fluffy lambs. The reality is very different – the Shepherds I knew in my youth in the Highlands of Scotland were men’s men with broad shoulders and huge hands. They didn’t suffer fools gladly and had been hardened by spending their lives on the moors pulling sheep out of bogs. When Jesus says of Himself, ‘I am the Good Shepherd’, we mustn’t get the wrong image; rather, we are to see Him as our strong, secure, all-competent Shepherd who is fully committed to us in love, compassion and determined mercy.