Sim is the pastor at Deal Christian Fellowship, having taken on responsibility for pastoring from January 2023
This study is part of our series of verse by verse studies of Genesis, the 1st book in the Bible. Taught by our pastor, Simeon Forder, at our Sunday morning service on the 4th February 2024. About this book Genesis is the first book in the Bible, and in its more than 1500 verses, there…
This study is part of our series of verse by verse studies of Genesis, the 1st book in the Bible. Taught by our pastor, Simeon Forder, at our Sunday morning service on the 21st January 2024. About this book Genesis is the first book in the Bible, and in its more than 1500 verses, there…
This study is part of our series of verse by verse studies of Genesis, the 1st book in the Bible. Taught by our pastor, Simeon Forder, at our Sunday morning service on the 14th January 2024. About this book Genesis is the first book in the Bible, and in its more than 1500 verses, there…
This study was taught by our pastor, Simeon Forder, at our Sunday morning service on the 31st December 2023. About this study At the turn of a New Year we often think about the smaller, but helpful, changes that we want to make in our lives – whether new diets, more exercise or more time…
Happy Christmas! How’s your Christmas Day going? Good, I hope. But you know there’s always something that does’t quite go to plan. Maybe it’s an underwhelming amount of sprouts at the dinner table, or the day runs late and you miss a TV show you’d hoped to see, or maybe the snow fails show (actually…
This study was taught by our pastor, Simeon Forder, at our Sunday evening service on the 24th December 2023. About this study What is Christmas all about? What was it that made the angels declare “Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”. In this study we take a look…
This study was taught by our pastor, Simeon Forder, at our Sunday morning service on the 24th December 2023. About this study The events of that first Christmas are often told, and generally well known – but why did it happen at all? In this study we look at what the Bible has to say…
The Christmas story is certainly one of joy, and good news. But there is one dark moment should still cause us to shudder — and that is how King Herod, having been informed of Jesus birth, and realising that the wise men had not returned to tell him the exact location of it, ordered all…
It’s rare that you don’t see three wise men as part of a nativity play, or TV drama. However, there’s a lot that gets mistaken — they almost certainly rode horses, and not camels, they arrived up to 2 year after Jesus was born, and not the day he was, and there were significantly more…
This study was taught by our pastor, Simeon Forder, at our Sunday morning service on the 17th December 2023. About this study Each year we hear the Christmas story told through nativity plays, TV dramas and films – but do we stop to check if what we hear is accurate? As Christians we are to…