Pastor’s blog (Page 3)
I’m excited to confirm that Calvary Portsmouth will be returning to face-to-face meetings as Barncroft Primary School, Havant, PO9 3HN, from Sunday 4th July! We have taken a number of precautions to keep everyone as safe as possible; there will be a one-way system for entering and leaving the school, and hand sanitizer available upon […]
PALM SUNDAY. It was, of course, the day we remember Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey – famously fulfilling the prophecy from Zechariah 9:9 given sone 500 years earlier. We know from scripture that a ‘multitude’ of Jesus disciples spread their coats on the ground, waved palm branches and sang praises to God (actually singing from Psalm 118) […]
The Mystery of Godliness – 1 Timothy 3:16 On Sunday mornings we have been studying through the Book of 1st Timothy. At the end of the 3rd chapter, after emphasising the importance of sound doctrine and order in the church, Paul states to Timothy: “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest […]
This study was given as part of our verse-by-verse study of the Gospel of Mark on 9th December 2018. The full audio teaching and powerpoint slides are available for free download: https://www.calvaryportsmouth.co.uk/sermons/the-gospel-of-mark-15-27-47/ The First Gentile Convert 9 Events that made a Christ-follower out of a Roman Centurion 1. One of the first events is the fact […]
In our verse-by-verse journey through the Gospel of Mark we are reviewing the Olivet Discourse – the private briefing that Jesus gave to Peter, James, Andrew, and John on the Mt of Olives on the Tuesday before His crucifixion. As Dr Arnold Fruchtenbaum states in his classic book on the return of Jesus: ‘The Footsteps of the Messiah’: “The famous Olivet Discourse […]
On the Tuesday before the Crucifixion (that would take place on the Thursday of Passion Week) Jesus went back into Jerusalem from Bethany (where He had been staying) to do battle with the Jewish leadership. We see Jesus rile the Pharisees by exposing that they were seeking to kill him – which they were, but […]
In the first part of Mark 11 we saw Jesus arrive at Bethany on the Saturday evening, and then ride into Jerusalem on ‘Palm Sunday’, fulfilling the prophecy given by Gabriel, recorded in Daniel chapter 9 to the very day! Now Mark records that when Jesus arrived in Jerusalem he went to the Temple looked […]
On Sunday’s we have been studying verse-by-verse through the Gospel of Mark, and have just reached chapter 11. Up to this point Mark has provided overwhelming evidence, from eyewitness accounts that Jesus really is the Messiah, but if that hasn’t been enough for some, Chapter 11 seals it! As Jesus arrived on the outskirts of Jerusalem, at the […]
In the last post, I highlighted how Satan had engineered a genetic problem with the potential to wipe out humanity (as recorded in Genesis ch6). Satan’s intention was to stop the Seed of the Woman (the Messiah) from being born, thus condemning mankind to an eternity separated from God. It was this that led to the […]