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A few days ago as I woke up the words of Psalm 127: 1-2 came to mind. Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch [...]

This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. Jeremiah 6:16 (NIV) [...]

What does the church of the future look like, or at least the church of the next 3 – 18 months? One of the questions that has been exercising the minds of church leaders all over the planet [...]

We love a good conspiracy The Covid-19 crisis has been a veritable medical lab producing a range of new theories to occupy our time, confirm our prejudices and justify our political positions. [...]

Start off with reading Matt 28:1-10. On Sunday, before sunrise, some of the woman set off to the tomb to finish the burial process on Jesus’ body. They went expecting a grieving process as they [...]

Please read Matthew 27:55-66 On Friday Jesus died. Many women had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for his needs. Jesus was dead. Now what? A wealthy man from Arimathea asked for Jesus body [...]

A good place to start would be to read Matthew 27:32-50. Read it slowly. Place yourself in the story. Be present there. Jesus died on Friday. Please stop reading for a moment and let that sink [...]

Central to the Way of Jesus, is becoming a person of love. Being a follower of Jesus invites us into a lifestyle which shapes us into people who love God, love humanity (including our local and [...]

Since the start of 2020 we have had a number of people bring us prophetic messages from Isaiah 43:15-21 I am the Lord, your Holy One, Israel’s Creator, your King.” 16 This is what the Lord says— [...]

“Fasting is a call to voluntarily embrace weakness in order to experience more of God’s Power and Presence.”¹ Good Morning KingsGate! WHAT A PRIVILEGE it is to get to work alongside [...]

This is an older blog that I wrote and have reproduced it here. I enjoyed writing it then, and I hope you enjoy reading it now. At the end you will find the prayer points for today. Grab your [...]

Thank you for joining us in praying for Cobham today. A key verse for us, that comes out of a passage about fasting, is Isaiah 58:12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins     and will raise [...]

FASTING TO SEE THE FUTURE, PRAYING TO CALL THE FUTURE. ‘What do you see?’ is a question that God asks his prophets on a number of occasions. In many instances God gets his prophets to consider [...]

When our kids were young, Amber & I decided to let the Santa story run it’s course. Our kids believed that Santa was involved with Christmas and that he somehow magically arrived every [...]

Next week on the 16th April, we are running another of our “Living supernaturally” evenings at KingsGate Kingston, hosted by Paul Tothill via Skype all the way from Adelaide. During these very [...]

Please grab a Bible and flip (or swipe) it open to Revelation, chapter 1. If you know me, you’ll know that this is one of my favourite books in the Bible. It is so encouraging! Yes, I actually [...]

Hello you lovely Kingsgaters! I hope that you have enjoyed the start of our series on Ephesians. It is a remarkable letter which is so worthy of our investment and attention! Here are some [...]

As we finished the fast last week I thought, I don’t want to go back to being the same as I was before the fast. I don’t want to retreat back into old mindsets, old habits and old [...]

As Christians we are meant to live with a sense of wonder. To live as people who are in awe of what God has done for us in Jesus Christ. As the wonder of the Gospel grips us it changes the way [...]

I trust that you are have all enjoyed your breakfast this morning, along with that very missed cup of coffee or tea that you managed without all week.  There is nothing like giving up something [...]

So here we are in the finishing straight. The final push. I was never a runner, at least not one that moved quickly, which I believe is the point, but I did have the misfortune of many nights [...]

Grab your Bible and have a look at Luke 18:9-14 Fasting tends to do all kinds of things to us. Positively, this ancient spiritual practice can lead to a greater awareness of the nearness of God [...]

Welcome to the 3rd day of the KingsGate prayer and fasting week. You might be feeling a bit weak, irritable and hungry (very in my case) but I would encourage you to keep going. This is what is [...]

Fasting into faith  Grab a bible and have a read of Matthew 17:14-21.  Here is this fascinating little encounter between Jesus and a dad. He has a boy who is under the influence of a [...]

Our KingsGate Cobham community was established in April 2016, initially spending an evening a week prayer walking the streets and later meeting in homes. We began formally meeting in various [...]

For the last few weeks I’ve been travelling slowly through the book of James. Its a fantastically practical book, a long way from comfortable but as directly relevant today as the day it was [...]

Ah Dwell, that moment in the KingsGate calendar where God always does something special. This year was no exception. Earlier in the year we felt God tell us that the theme for this year should be [...]

‘And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.’ Ephesians 2:22 This Sunday I preached in KingsGate Kingston about the centrality of ‘loving [...]

Over the course of August, as a church community we’re exploring the practice of prayer as part of our apprenticeship to Jesus. Last week we explored the wonderful invitation that prayer is, and [...]

How is your prayer life?   Do you feel your conversations with your creator are as vibrant, deep and beautiful as you’d like them to be? Do you feel like your ramblings with your redeemer [...]

This last Sunday we finished our Philippians series with Ian Ford sharing on Philippians chapter 4. Here’s some reflection/discussion questions after reading through Philippians 4. In this [...]

In the bible, we first see Paul as the man holding the coats of the Jewish men who were stoning Stephen for preaching about Jesus and the living King of all. We’re told he was approving of [...]

Philippians 2 Philippians 2 contains a beautiful ancient hymn which many people consider to be the centre around which this wonderful letter was written. The words found in verse 6 through to 11 [...]

Imagine being forced away from your family, loved ones and friends for years, with no end in sight. Imagine being stripped of life’s pleasures – the luxurious, and the simple – [...]

The evening sun was setting ahead of us and I was getting my first taste of Greek driving as Michael transferred us from the airport to our host family for the night. It suddenly dawned on me [...]

Hi there! I’m Izzy and in April 2018 I joined the Kingsgate team going to Athens to support the refugees. I was super excited to go as I had wanted to join the trip the previous year but [...]

This last Sunday Keath continue the Kingston AM preaching series looking at Philippians chapter 1. He looked in particular at verse 21 & 22. Here is the verse, some comments from [...]

Hi! My name is Sue and I run our Foodbank collection point here at Kingsgate Kingston. I know the church we pass our foodbank items to within our borough (one of five distribution points here in [...]

Philippians is a wonderful letter that is filled with many loved and often quoted passages. One of the things that makes this letter such a favourite is that it is an encouraging and joyful piece [...]

If you have followed Jesus wholeheartedly for any significant period of time, one of the few things I could almost guarantee is that, at some stage, you have found yourself angry with God. [...]

This last Sunday, Chris Wienand preached in KingsGate Kingston AM. As always, you might find it really useful to further discuss and reflect on what he preached on. Watch the below video, and [...]

At the heart of the story of Jonah is God’s radical call to His people to live in a different way to the world, and to love and forgive our enemies. Assyria was a brutal, cruel empire, that [...]

So often it’s the artists who most effectively capture the heart of something and express it in a deep, articulate way, that sneakily side steps our suspicions and biases, bypasses our [...]

The story of Jonah sees God extending grace to Nineveh. He doesn’t want to leave that great city to the consequences of their many sins – he desires mercy rather than judgement. However, this [...]

As a KingsGate family we want to increasingly be giving ourselves to the things that will enable us to see our vision that God gave us as a church come to life. In order to see “On earth as it is [...]

I’m sure you can recognise the moment from the movies. There’s a bad guy of some sort… And he’s running down the street, thinking he’s getting away from the cops. He [...]

A few years ago, the Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago conducted a huge survey investigating how followers of Jesus grow spiritually. They surveyed over 250 000 people across thousands of [...]

Confession: I love my smartphone! There you go. I’ve admitted it. I also loved (past tense) my tablet. But it is now about six years old and at the rate that technology updates you could say that [...]

Tools to help read, understand, and be shaped by the bible I think most people who want to follow Jesus, have some measure of desire to read the bible and engage with it in a way that feels [...]

Seven months ago I started reading the short 4 chapter bible story of Jonah. I started reading it just as part of my devotions and because I thought it would be good to read through an old [...]