Word of Salvation – May 2010   MARKS OF MATURITY, Peter Smit (Sermon 7 of a series in Ephesians, Series title – Ephesians: Portraits of the living church)   Text – Ephesians 4:1-16   There is a film called “Indescribable” that looks at space. Some of you may have seen it. One amazing constellation it looks at is called Pleiades . It is roughly 440 light years distance away… Remember light can travel around the earth 7 times in one second. A light year is the distance light travels over one year; it’s about 9.5 trillion kilometers. The radius of this...

Humility is not exactly the flavour of the month.  In fact humility is a notoriously difficult virtue to cultivate at the best of times.  Our problem as human beings is pride – one of the seven deadly sins – and that deadly sin of pride so often gives humility the boot. The lack of humility often finds its most potent expression when it comes to our relationship with God.  That struck me on one occasion in a particularly vivid way.  An older lady, about my age, had just moved into town and we were soon on a ‘good friends’ basis with...