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How to Beat Anxiety, Christian Mindfulness Lesson 1 The Truth Test, Philippians 4, Dr JS Gillespie
Anxiety and depression affect us all. The Bible contains key lessons on beating anxiety, fear and worry in Philippians chapter 4. Christian Mindfulness draws from our deep resources in an all powerful and all knowing Jesus, tapping into that powerhouse of peace by prayer. Lesson 1 in Christian Mindfulness is the Truth Test. Dr J Stewart Gillespie.
How Much Joy can you Cope with? - JS Gillespie
What do I do when I'm depressed and empty? Revelation 17 - JS Gillespie
Babylon be careful where you Drink - JS Gillespie
from Dean Castle Country park in Kilmarnock
From Jupiter to Jesus - JS Gillespie @VindolandaTrust
Psalm 23 - The Lord's my Shepherd - JS Gillespie
Reflections on the Lord's my Shepherd in the setting of the Lesmahagow Cemetry
Angels without Demons - JS Gillespie
In Flanders Fields where Poppies Grow
The Day John Stewart Hung
Crisis the King Maker - JS Gillespie
The Song of Your Life - JS Gillespie
The Tide One Day will Turn - Rumbula Woods - JS Gillespie
My God and My Right - Reflections on the death of Queen Elizabeth II at Dumfries House - JS Gillespie
My God and My Right - Reflections on the death of Queen Elizabeth II at Dumfries House from J Stewart Gillespie, graceinchrist.org
Being Certain When You're only Just Sure - JS Gillespie
Being Certain when you are only just sure, a devotional message from the book of Revelation chapter 13 verse 11, from the observation deck of the Academy of Sciences building in Riga, Latvia. Views of Riga and the cathedral of St Peter and St Paul. A message shared by Dr J Stewart Gillespie on the lamb and the beast.
Part of the TruthTrek series of devotional thoughts, a message from graceinchrist.org.
Spiritual Gravity - JS Gillespie - Revelation chapter 12
The Last Revival - Revelation chapter 11
Dr J Stewart Gillespie reflects on the grace of God in Revelation chapter 11, as he examines the patience and persistence of a God who reaches out to mankind, time and time and again.
A message presented in the shadow of the Falkirk Kelpies
How Jesus Turned Religion on Its Head
In the window period between birth and death our life's experience tells us that generally we get what we strive after. Life teaches us that there is no gain without pain, that respect has to be earned and wages must be worked for. Life also teaches us however that some goals will always be out with our reach. Ladders will take you so high but don't try and build one to the moon. Saving hard and working hard may fund the cost of a car or even a home but for almost all us Buckingham Palace will be well beyond our reach! Strangely a common religious philosophy pins it's hope on attaining the eternal and infinite by self effort! If some of earths material wealth is out with our reach how hard would we have to strive to gain eternal life and access to heaven? The religious logic here just doesn't add up! Jesus turns these philosophical ideas of religion upside down. It was Jesus who:
- Raised the standard we aim for, "God only is good" the Lord Jesus told the young man striving to impress God! Goodness and perfection are scarce commodities when assessed by the eye of God.
- Jesus forgive sins! Earning a right to heaven is hardly compatible with a need for forgiveness!
- Jesus did not get what he deserved, He died the just and perfect for us the sinner. The assumption that we get what we deserve from God is unwarranted, His Son broke the rule here.
The apostle Paul, brings these ideas together here in Romans chapter 6 verse 23. Sin has wages, earned and gained. Sin brings us to death. It is infinitely easier to bring a man from life to death than it is to bring a man from death to life! Such a movement in the opposite and unnatural direction depends on the grace of God. It is the "gift of God" that is "eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
A video recorded on the banks of Loch Ken by Dr J Stewart Gillespie
Religious Revolution from the Lips of Jesus
A message preached at the Bible Stone, near Muirkirk and the Cairn Table by Dr J Stewart Gillespie from the text of Matthew chapter 11 verse 28; "come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest."
There's a Heaven for Forgotten Prayers - JS Gillespie
170 years till the next Sermon - JS Gillespie
A short message preached by J Stewart Gillespie from Matthew chapter 11 verse 28:
"Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest'"
Preached in the ruins of the Auld Kirk, New Cumnock which is the setting of the Robert Burns poem; 'The Kirk's Alarm' and the church of the Reverend James Young.
Tragedy to Triumph by the Truth Route - JS Gillespie - a message for Easter
Tragedy to Triumph by the Truth Route - JS Gillespie - a message for Easter
From the Corson Cone Hill, New Cumnock.
Midway Between Heaven and Hell - J Stewart Gillespie
The Dark side of the Moon - JS Gillespie
The other side of the throne of God is seen in Revelation chapter 6. We must chose how it is we want to know and experience God. As the righteous ruler? As the sacrifice for our sin? As one who understands and sympathises as man? As one who is able and willing to lift us up to the heights of Glory? Would we wish to reject God in all of His Grace and Glory and in His place chose tyranny and dictatorship? Chose slaughter and suffering? Chose the demonic that will drag us to the depths of hell? In reality every day is a decision and those decisions change our destiny. Let us be wise in the choice that we make. "Choose you this day whom you will serve." Let us choose Christ and choose life.
Dr J Stewart Gillespie @ graceinchrist.org
Will there be any Tears in Heaven? - J Stewart Gillespie
Will there be any tears in heaven? It is John in the book of Revelation who assures us that heaven will be a place without tears; that God will wipe away all tears from their eyes (Revelation 21:4), and yet this great unfolding of God's purpose for the world and humanity is introduced with the very tears which John assures us will one day be absent (Revelation 5:4). John's tears are caused by the painful possibility which occurs to John that this tearless heaven of no more sorrow and suffering may never actually come to reality if no one is found worthy to open the book in the hand of God. It is this book which acts as a detonator for all subsequent events in Revelation. Without this book being opened there is no Revelation, there is no plan and no purpose and there is no heaven without sorrow. John discovers that for every season there is a time, even in the timelessness of heaven! Heaven must wait upon the opening of the book by the one found worth; the lion and the lamb. It is only the one who, in His own time completed thee work of redemption who was worthy to open the book. Once calvary and the saving work of the cross was complete then and only then could this book be opened by the vicarious lamb and victorious lion. Sometimes we wonder why does God not intervene now? Right now? Surely this event or these people ought to prompt an immediate reaction from God? God's actions are not arbitrary. The reason for this is profound. If God were willing to intervene at any and every point in human history or in my life that would mean that those experiences, that pain and that suffering had in reality no absolute meaning or purpose. If God were to intervene arbitrarily then life, suffering, pain and disaster would of themselves have but an arbitrary meaning. It is the fact that life with all of it's dimensions and trials has meaning, significance and purpose in God's plans and providence means that God waits until those purposes have reached their fulfilment before His hand intervenes. The greatest tears we could ever shed would not be tears of grief and loss but tears of hopelessness, meaninglessness and despair that all of that sorrow had no ultimate purpose nor meaning.
Yours by Grace in Christ
Dr J Stewart Gillespie