Sim is the pastor at Deal Christian Fellowship, having taken on responsibility for pastoring from January 2023
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…
On one hand, it’s easy to get caught up in all the trappings of Christmas — the food, the music, the decorations, the presents, the family gatherings. But it’s also inescapable that this celebration marks something that fundamentally changed the world, whether that’s first in our minds or not. And that something is actually someone;…
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 10th December 2023. About this book Genesis is the first book in the Bible, and in its more than 1500 verses, there…
Joseph was engaged to be married to Mary, when the news came that she was pregnant. And He had a choice — listen to those around him, who would undoubtedly told him to get out of that situation, or listen to God. And in a step of faith, He listened to God who told him…
Mary is undoubtedly one of the most famous individuals that the Bible records — indeed the part of Mary is seen as one of the biggest in nativity plays throughout schools and churches throughout the country. And she was undoubtedly a special woman — the angel Gabriel described her as having found favour with God,…