How to Find and Use Your Gift(s)

According to the Bible, every Christian has gifts to be used in the local church. When Paul wrote to the Corinthian church, he told them, “To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good,” (1 Cor. 12:7) ....

The Importance of Song as Part of Worship

In the church I grew up in, “worship” was what we called the transition from upbeat, fast-tempo songs to more soothing, slower songs, ... but that wasn’t really an accurate understanding of worship! Worship goes far beyond music.

Can I Have Church Without Commitment?

We live in a day when people want all sorts of privileges without commitment or responsibility. They want sex without marriage; money without hard work; job satisfaction without stress; job security without company loyalty; family fun without working

Marriage Myth Busting #3 Genesis 2:18 - “The One”

Our world has an obsession with the idea of finding “the one”. From Disney films of forlorn princes and princesses and television shows like “Love at First Sight,” to the desperate pleas of songs asking, “can anybody find me, somebody to love?” ...

Sermon: Marriage Myth Busting #2

The quest for equality within marriage is an attempt to redress the balance and create a marital utopia ... by examining God’s word, we can see that gender equality was not a foundational cornerstone God used to create paradise.

Do I Need to be Baptized?

Baptism is necessary. Now, please be careful to read that again. Baptism is necessary. I did not say that baptism is necessary for salvation — but baptism is necessary to be obedient to Christ.

Three Keys to Joy in Trials

Bible verses like James 1:2 can bring us blessings we can't find elsewhere, if only we take a little time to chew on them! A little bible-munching on James 1:2-4 gives us three wonderful keys to having joy in trials.

What Do You Want to Do This Year?

As I’m sitting in a plane heading for Los Angeles, I’m reminded that life is full of choices. In front of me is my laptop, my bible, and a book that I need to read and review. Each hold potential for me to be serving my Saviour!

Seeing the Light in Front of You

How do we explain the significance of the person and work of Jesus Christ to this world? One way that the Gospel is demonstrated in Scripture is by using the fundamental principles of light and darkness.

“Don’t Worry About Me I’m Fine”

When was the last time you told someone how much you hate your struggle with your sinful flesh? Brits typically keep a stiff upper lip. We don’t admit to our struggle. That’s tragic because we all have a struggle going on.

Spotlight on Ministry: The Music Ministry

Singing songs with strong words is not only an important tool in learning and enforcing what scripture says. But also serves as a form of prayer, giving us the words to sing when we are weak or may not have the words.

How to Regain Your Hunger for God’s Word

We often do not appreciate the fact that we desire food. We do not consider that our taste buds are fully functioning to appreciate and enjoy the various flavours while our bodies receive the proper nourishment to gain strength to do what we need ...

Do You Pray?

This question awakens a certain amount of shame in many Christians. If I were to ask whether you pray before a meal, few would be bothered. If I were to ask whether you pray in the middle of trials, even fewer would blush.

A Pastor’s Greatest Concern in a Pandemic

It is not easy to miss Paul’s heart for the churches that he was used by God to establish during his apostolic ministry to the Gentiles. His absence from them came with constant concern for them.

What should Christians make of the conspiracy theories surrounding Coronavirus?

Resolutions That Matter To God

In this start of a new year, you just might be inclined to make some resolutions for the year 2020. These come in all shapes and sizes. But as Christians, our resolutions should not be as those in the world.

10 Keys to Finding and Using Your Spiritual Gift

If you’re born-again, God gave you a spiritual gift(s) along with your salvation. It's not necessarily a neatly defined spiritual gift, like those in 1 Corinthians 12, or Romans 12.

Making the Most of What You’ve Heard

The outworking of the Christian life will be founded on the doctrine of the church that is taught from its pulpit. God’s word clearly declared to God’s people will make all the difference in what a church believes and what a church does.

Keep Calm & Carry On: Lessons from Daniel when lobbyists want us thrown to the lions

If your finger is on the pulse of the Church today, you might worry that we’re about to burst a blood vessel. Panic is not too strong a description of the way Christians everywhere are responding to the gathering storms of persecution.

Hermeneia - Bible Training Centre

In September 2018, GraceLife London launched Hermeneia, a Bible training centre in London. This training centre is designed to equip God’s people to bring glory to Christ through a greater understanding of God’s word and service to the church.

Book Review: Love Thy Body

Based on the title you may be forgiven for assuming that this is a book about ‘Self-Love’ and/or ‘Body Positivity’. However, you’d be mistaken, it, in fact, deals with major moral issues about Life and Sexuality, that are facing our society today.

A Caution to the Ambitious

Considering all the different ambitions that you pursue in this life, there is one constant temptation: to try to obtain what you are reaching for while forgetting the triune God in the process.

Salvation for Stubborn Sinners

If you’ve done evangelism long enough, you’ll have met people who respond to the Gospel message by saying: “I’ll think about it,” or “I don’t need God,” or even “I’m quite satisfied with my life.” Some people just have little or no concern .....

Welcome as an Expression of Love

When I first joined GraceLife London, I essentially knew the name of every single person name who attended GraceLife London. It was a lot easier back then when there were only 30 or so people at a Sunday service.

The 3 P’s for Effective Reading: Plan, Purpose, Practicality

Many find reading difficult because they simply do not plan. They just pick up a book thoughtlessly and read for the sake of reading. Planning what you are going to read is helpful because you will then likely be thoughtful about the books you read.

Book Review: Raising Men Not Boys by Mike Fabarez

Where are today’s men? This is a relevant question to ask in our age because many men today have not made the essential transition from boyhood to manhood. They seem to be in a state of perpetual boyhood and are more like boys in men’s body.

Mind Your Mind - Being a Mindful Christian in a Mindless Culture

We live in a mindless culture. You probably nodded as you read this statement because a quick survey of our culture proves it to be true. Today’s world generates so much information thereby requiring the vital use of the mind yet we see the opposite

The Tongue - The World’s Most Underestimated Danger

If you were to list some of the world’s greatest dangers, you may include terrorism, bad weather, diseases and so on. But what you are likely going to find absent from the list is the tongue.

Foundations of Faith: Grow in the Knowledge of The Truth

We live in society that has abandoned truth. To speak of ‘the truth’ nowadays is almost seen as dangerous and intolerant. Truth is considered to be self and culturally constructed. It is relative rather than absolute, meaning that you can have ...

Motivations for Evangelism

Why are you left here in this world as a Christian? Is it to worship God? Is it to be like Christ? Yes would be the right answer to these questions but the reality is that God could take us to heaven immediately after we are saved ...

Who is God?

Questions about the identity of God are the kind of things that polite people in Britain just don’t discuss, but thankfully things are changing, and there is really nothing polite about ignoring a subject like this.

Does God Exist? If so, who is God?

Can a building build itself? Could a book write itself? According to the Bible, God exists, and the Bible even goes so far as to say that it’s foolish to deny it. A building speaks of a builder, and this world bears witness to a wonderful Creator.

A Few Good Reasons to Join a Church

While church membership is not a direct command in the Bible, the need for every true Christian to be a member is implied by a number of ideas written large in Scripture.

Are you an other-focused Christian?

Christians who are self-focused should almost carry a spiritual health warning. They can do an awful lot of damage by concentrating on their rights and their freedoms. But the message in the Bible is that we should be concerned much more about others

Foundations of Faith: Be Equipped, Established and Prepared

A tree firmly rooted and grounded is a stable tree that is able to face the storm. Similarly, a Christian who is firmly grounded and anchored in the faith is a stable Christian who is able to stand firm in all circumstances.

Rest For The Weary

It is exhausting and futile to seek satisfaction in anything this world offers, yet Jesus invites all people to have eternal rest for their soul in Matt. 11:28-30.