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Pastor Dan Alcantara 7 September 2026 Why are we going through John's Gospel? ↓ Week after week, Sunday after Sunday, we talk about the gospel at Ardgowan Square. We talk about who Jesus is, what Jesus did, and why Jesus did it. We talk about what we must do to be saved. We talk about how we can experience forgiveness of sin, reconciliation with God and others, healing in life, peace for today, peace for tonight. During our Sunday Night Fireside discussion, the question came up regarding why...

At Sunday Night Firesides last night, we were discussing how we can discern truth from error, where false beliefs come from, and what part the church can play in helping us to be more discerning. This is all the more important as the culture around us becomes more pluralistic, as technology progresses, and as ‘almost true’ begins to look more and more like ‘actually true’. We are right to be concerned about what we see going on around us. Yet, there is an even greater danger which lurks in...

God has a history of using people who appear, feel, or seem unremarkable in order to fulfill his purposes on earth. Abraham was a nobody in a foreign land. Joseph was the second-youngest son. Gideon was a nobody from an insignificant family in an insignificant tribe. King David was the youngest son. And we see this most clearly in the Lord Jesus. He was born in scandal. He was the son, as it was supposed, of the carpenter. He was brought up in a backwater and nobody expected anything good to...