Grace Church Cork

This is a pivotal time of year. A time to reflect on what's gone and look forward to what's to come in this new season.

What the Lord wants to say about truly having a joyful Christmas, can be found in the Biblical account of the valley of dry bones. Sometimes, particularly if we've been Christians a long time, we can lose the joy of Christmas, but we shouldn't because it's available to us at any time. To have a joyful Christmas with substance - something to be truly grateful for - gives us strength to face the cha...

When the angel appeared to Mary and she responded with "I am the Lord's servant. May everything you have said about me come true," did she really know what she was agreeing to? When the angel said, "Greetings, you who are highly favoured! The Lord is with you," was the Lord really with her? In all the trouble, in the heart-break? What about our own lives? Are trials and trouble a sign that God is...

Wherever Jesus went there was healing! And wherever the Holy Spirit was on the move, healing broke out spontaneously, sometimes in strange and startling ways; sometimes in the simplest of ways. Are you ready to believe that God can move in just that way in you and through you?

Hearing God is more often than not a matter of attention. More often than not we need to have our ears unblocked to hear clearly! Drawing from the story of the young Samuel at the tabernacle, Pastor Tom Burke asks, are you hearing God and if not, why not?

We all think we know what will make us happy We all have a picture of a life, a situation, a set of well aligned circumstances that will make us happy. We have simply put an agenda in our heads and our hearts that we think will produce for us or in us real happiness. But what if we have it upside down? What if the very agenda we have to make us happy actually ends up having the opposite effect? 

Visiting speaker, Pastor Ken Burns, shows us three keys for Life, all based on the nature and quality of our relationships with one another and with God. Relationships are the most important thing in our lives as they are the only thing we take with us to eternity!

Everyone wants to be Happy, but most people look in the wrong places or look for happiness in things that can and will never satisfy. God wants us to be happy too and has provided us a way!!    

Sometimes it is us who close doors in our lives; but Jesus is still coming through closed doors and saying to us, "Peace be with you."

Maybe it takes someone from the Rebel County of Cork to encourage Christians to be Good Rebels for the Kingdom of God?

Jesus said whoever is least in the Kingdom of heaven is greater than John the Baptist. That means that if we're born again, we are greater and Jesus is the greatest!

God always acts ON purpose to provide for us, so we can fulfil our purpose in Him.

What to do when life puts you in a lay-by.

God's promises of provision are so prevalent they shouldn't occupy our minds, worry about our needs. Jesus warned instead that we, should be on our guard against moralism and materialism which are absolutely poisonous to the soul!

The top five myths or untruths about Bible-believing Christianity that I've heard the most over my four decades a Christian.

We're all a little weird about something, aren't we? For some people it's their animals; for others it's food or hygiene. Pastor Mike contends that as Christians, we can seem weird too because we see things in such a different way; with such a different worldview. We are called to to different. We are called to go and represent Jesus Christ as citizens of heaven.

Praise is our weapon! Jesus sang at the Last Supper and in the Garden of Gethsemane as He faced into His death on the cross. That's a challenge for us to do likewise in the trials of this life.

First in the natural, then in the spiritual. That's what the word of God says. There is a changing Spiritual climate in Ireland. God is doing a new thing. Do you perceive it?

As Jesus-followers we need to make our words count; and bring blessing and life and hope to those around us. Join visiting guest speaker Pastor Jamie Corcoran from Lighthouse Church in Navan and Dublin, Ireland in his message entitled Word Count.

Do you come from a messed up family? God can transform even the most difficult family background for His glory.

What happens in your life when you just can't see clearly? We look at the top five reasons why we sometimes can't see straight in a Spiritual sense.

Are you driftING or are your remainING in Jesus. He's the Anchor for our souls in the currents of life.

The Holy Spirit or our sinful nature? Who's the Boss?

Who you keeping company with? The answer to that has more influence on us than anything else in our lives. The expression is true: "Who you're running with determines where you're running to." We look at what Jesus said about this and how, under His influence, we in turn can influence others for our good; their good and God's glory.

Visiting speaker, Pastor Nick Park, shares with us about the "Hesed" or Covenant Love of God and how it chases after us. A special Covenant Love especially for God's children.