Paul's Podcast

Pastor Brian Clark has spent the previous two weeks showing us from the bible what being filled with the Spirit isn't. This week we focus on the positive: what being filled with the Spirit is.
What is…

What does 1 Corinthians 14 say?
This is such an important question as it is the chapter, outside of Acts 2, which provides the most information and instruction on the Spiritual Gift of Tongues (or as …

False doctrine on the gift of tongues leads to unbiblical spirituality, confusion, disillusionment, defeat & bad fruit. 
Yet this false doctrine is widespread.
Guest to the podcast, Pastor Brian Clark,…

Chapter 4 of Ruth is wonderful, isn't it? The joy of marriage, the excitement of the new birth, the hope in the future...
Chapter 1 is not wonderful. Instead of fruit, it is characterised by famine. N…

Most often, when we think about living a fruitful life for God, we think 'fruit is either produced or it is not'. This is biblical to an extent. But, if you look a little deeper, we see that the bibl…

There are some people we don't want to get up close & personal with. (Ever been on the London Underground is rush hour?) But there are, on the other hand, many people we should have close, personal r…

“You get out what you put in” - a familiar saying that suggests the amount of effort we put in to something is equal to the amount of reward we get out of it.
Everybody says it, and to a certain exten…

Ruth is a virtuous bride. Naomi knows it. Boaz knows it. It seems that all of Bethlehem knows it... but what, exactly, is it that makes her so?
After studying the pictures in Ruth, we now turn our att…

"Your story, sir, would cure deafness!" (from Shakespeare's The Tempest).
Well, the story of personal salvation through Jesus Christ cures a lot more than that. It is a story that we see pictured wond…

What do we do with Israel? How should we feel about this supposed chosen people, who seem so stubborn when it comes to God? And why should we care anyway?
The book of Ruth provides a clear doctrinal p…

If we scratch a little under the surface of the book of Ruth, we will find some wonderful pictures. 
This week there is a picture so beautiful and brilliant it will blow our socks off... but at the ti…

Ruth is a little book with a lot to say. 
In this introductory message, Paul explains how it is not just a wonderful love story between two godly people, but, if we scratch a little beneath the surfac…