Helen Smith, speaking about Dealing with Tension and Pressure

These are two words we avoid because they have images of tough stuff and hard times. Actually we need both to live well but we do need to know how to handle them in daily life.

We often think that an absence of the pressure or lack of the tension is what we need, but really it’s the opposite – these things actually are very productive and have great qualities that we cannot live without.

Let’s have a look at each one: Read the rest of this entry »

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Night Church, with Sandy Jamieson.

Sandy is the Pastor of Lighthouse Church, and Assemblies of God Church, in Maxwelltown, Dumfries. Sandy brought an amazing word with 7 ingredients for a successful Church.

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Pastor Mark Smith; Unity in the Church part. 2

Continuing from last message…

Unity starts with love and grace towards each other – where there is none or little- pray for it , pray for those that you find “hard” to love and show grace to!

Romans 8 – If God is for us … who can be against us?

The vision of seeing people saved must go beyond petty irritations with others and things that are not how we would like them to be – we must see the need of salvation for our town.

1.    We need to see the value of prayer and worship and being involved in that together.

Ephesians 4: 11-13

We must be build maturity, both individually and jointly. We need to look beyond the outward stuff that can distract and pull us down to be very inward looking. We need to look to Jesus, worship Him together and the “stuff” fades!

Ephesians 4 :3 We are instructed to “make every effort” to keep the unity of the Spirit… that means working at it!, forgiving, sorting it out, loving and going that extra distance to make it work! We need to value the bond of peace. Read the rest of this entry »

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Pastor Mark Smith speaking about Unity

The wineskins we were talking about last week were big … they had to be able to stretch as the grape juice fermented and became wine!

ROLC is one wineskin and when God is pouring out His new wine then changes need to come to accommodate that.

The Shepherds heart is for Unity, so that we move together, within our church, not becoming stagnant pools but continually moving forward, together. Jesus prayed for Unity in John 17

The character and nature of the Godhead is unity… one heart and one vision. Read the rest of this entry »

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There are three accounts in three of the four gospels, where this message from Jesus is recorded. We can assume that when most of the gospel writers cover something, it’s not just important (all of Jesus’ teaching is important), it’s vital. What we are dealing with today is of vital importance, in order for Christians to function as we are called to, and for the Church to be all we are called to be.

See Matthew 9 v 16, Mark 2 v 21-22 and Luke 5 v 36 – 39. Read the rest of this entry »

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