by Pastor Julian | Feb 28, 2021
I’m going to start today by describing something many of us went through at school. This happened in our sports lessons and it also happened during our break times. When a team game was played, two people were chosen as captains and all the other players would line up...
by Pastor Julian | Feb 21, 2021
You would have thought that the disciple who gave his name to the first Gospel in the New Testament would be well known to us, that we would have loads of information about him, that there would be lots of references to him in all the gospel accounts. But that is not...
by Pastor Julian | Feb 14, 2021
In Jesus’ time being called Judas was a GOOD thing! Judas is the Greek form of the Hebrew personal name Judah meaning, “Praise Yahweh”, and was quite a common name. Judas Iscariot is placed by all of the Gospel writers at the end of the list of disciples because of...
by Pastor Julian | Feb 7, 2021
What do we know about Nathanael? Surprisingly, little. In fact, everything we know comes from just two passages in John’s Gospel (all other references to him are as a name on a list): So, Matthew 10:2,3 / Mark 3:18 / Luke 6:14 and Acts 1:13 merely mention Nathanael as...
