Barclay Viewforth Church Edinburgh

Colossians 1:9-14 gives us a prayer to start the new year with.

Galatians 5:18-26 What are you gifts? What does God want you to do with them in 2025? Dare to dream!

Luke 2:5-20 Jesus' birth announced

Luke 1:65-80

Luke 1:26-38 Mary, understandably, is afraid to be confronted by an angel who tells her she's to be the mother of God! What we can learn from her response after the initial shock.

Luke 1:5-2:20 the angel Gabriel appears to Zechariah but even so he can't believe he and Elizabeth are to have a son at this late stage and that that son will be the prophet announcing God's coming into the world.

Psalm 7, a prayer for God to endow Solomon with the characteristics of a good and righteous ruler. Solomon fell short of these during his reign but they point forward to the Messiah or Christ and what is expected of us now as his people, called to follow Him.

Psalm 110 and what it tells us about Jesus's identity and roles

It's on Remembrance Sunday and we reflect on Psalm 102 and how remembering God's faithfulness in past crises sows the seeds of faith for now and the future.

Robbie Keen of Jenga in Uganda, challenges us to want more of God and ask that we might receive.

Psalm 40. God declares that he doesn't want burnt offerings and sin offerings but a heart committed to doing his will. Jesus is the ultimate sacrifice on those lines.

1 Samuel 7:17ff, David takes on Goliath. What is courage? The part that faith, confidence based on experience, preparation and trust play too.

Mark 6:13-34. Often we feel inadequate when faced with a big challenge. God asks us just to give what we've got and leave the rest to Him.

What's the church's purpose? David Clarkson Download

John 14:25-31, Phil 4:4-9. "Peace I leave with you", Jesus tells his disciples then and now. Peace - wellbeing - source of the rejoicing Paul exhorts us to. Knowing God's love in Jesus. Where, what or who else can give us anything like it?

John 18. Jesus arrest and Pilate's well known retort prompts us to think 'what is truth'?

Haggai 2:9ff Giving God your all

Haggai 1:13-2:9. When feeling discouraged, avoid making comparisons and getting frustrated by slow or no progress. know God is with us. so get on with the work.

Haggai 1:1-13. The Israelites return to Jerusalem after decades of exile in Babylon. They start off well with rebuilding the Temple, then it starts to get hard. Is that a sign that we're on the wrong track and to stop? Rather, the opposite.

Ephesians 4:1-13. Each of us is given us work to do and gifts to do it with.

Family/"back to school" service with an interactive reading involving the children acting out the story of the Jesus healing the blind man by the roadside on the one hand, then Zachaeus the tax collector on the other. 2 different characters but Jesus makes a difference to both their lives.

Philippians 1:27ff What is the good news about Jesus? How do we tell others about it?

David talks about fellowship in the gospel with Jenga in Male, Uganda, in the spirit of Philippians 1:1-11

Hebrews 12. Who or what encourages us to keep going in the marathon that is the life of faith?