Two people were crucified on that day with Jesus, but only one thing was different about them. What was it? And what does it mean for us today?Take a listen & find out...

My wife has many gifts, but one of my favourites is her supernatural ability to create a delicious meal out of nothing. A couple of days before the next Tesco delivery, I’m looking in the kitchen thinking “we are going to starve; there’s not fo...

In Matthew 13, there are 7 parables that reveal what the Kingdom of Heaven will be like.What will it be like? Why is this important to my faith? What does this mean for the mission of the church? Let's jump ...

We often think of as life as a race, which is appropriate as that is how the Apostle Paul describes it. But, more specifically, I would propose we can think of life as an obstacle race.We think and maybe hope it will run smoothly, but in re...

What is the storyline of the Bible?This week, we get into more detail about the story of God's kingdom. Crucially, we'll see how it is divided up into two concepts: the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven.Which is which? And ...

What is the storyline of the Bible? As much as we would like it to be about us, it is not. The storyline of the Bible is a story about a kingdom...Welcome to our special mini-s...

Huz? Buz? Kemuel? And don't get me started on Chesed, Hazo and Pildesh...Today we’re closing out our study of Genesis 22 with the final reality of worship: a life of worship leads to a life building the church. We will see that, though l...

For our message today, you can imagine eating a sandwich. There is a filling on offer, but, as with every sandwich, it has to start and end with the slice of bread.The bread in our sandwich today is Abraham’s obedience; the filling, i.e....

We’ve got trust issues people. I once bit into what I thought was mint chocolate bar in school, aged 5, and it turned our to be not full of chocolate but full of raisins. Took me a long time to get over that.More seriously, a...

Apparently our noses have 400 scent receptors and can detect trillions of different smells. What happens when we smell is we inhale molecules, which send signals to the brain, to create physical responses from our body... some smells we love, s...

Last week we drew our first reality of worship from Genesis 22 (we have to understand the test) and this week we are going to draw out our second (we have to go and do what God has said).And it is going to be so helpful for us because we ar...

Last week we looked at Isaac and saw the picture of the Cross: this provided us with the reason for worship. This week we're looking at Abraham, seeing how he responds to God’s call in his life: this is going to give us some realities of worshi...

Last week we saw how we don’t want to be left behind with the ass, we want to go yonder & worship. Vital to us doing that (i.e. worshipping God) is understanding WHY we should worship him.Today we'll see that our reason for worship i...

The Old Testament and the New Testament conclude the same: ultimately, in the end, everyone is going to bow down and worship Jesus. The question is ‘who am I going to bow down to in the meantime?’Genesis 22 is going to instruct us in the...

Colossians 1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;10 That ye might walk wo...

As we have seen over the last few months, Paul has been instructing and exhorting Timothy to ‘war a good warfare’ and to ‘Fight the Good Fight of Faith’.What is different about this war?It is unique compared to any other battle that has...

Final two verses of 1 Timothy... what does Paul have to say to his spiritual son, his young soldier in Christ, before he signs off his letter and the fight continues?He says: ‘O Timothy’! An exclamation of feeling and concern and exhortatio...

There is an old fairy tale about a character called Rumplestiltskin; a made-up creature who had the ability to spin straw into gold. He was able to take something of relatively low value, and turn it into something of extremely high value.T...

Have you ever run out of petrol in the car?It has happened to me. It’s kind of silly because we can see that the vehicle is running low, but - for some reason - we don’t fill up, we just wait, thinking we might just make it to the next dest...

One Christmas Day challenge most kids probably remember is opening a present and being excited about it, but it doesn’t have the batteries included, so you have to wait until your parents find some batteries (and a tiny screwdriver) and put the...

I attended some football training with a good friend of mine way back in my late teens. After a few years not playing, this was to be my glorious come back. Not long into the session, I received the ball in the middle of the pitch, perfect cont...

Most of us would agree that a good teacher can make a big difference. Have you had one before? Maybe at school as a kid...What about the impact of a bad teacher? Ever had one of those?Much more significant than the experiences we had in...

The average person spends about a third of their life at work. One study revealed that's - on average - 90,000 hours over a lifetime.Our work can provide a great opportunity to be distracted from God's work, or it can provide a great opport...

We have a bread maker at home.It has a timer, so, sometimes, on particularly delightful evenings, Emma puts the ingredients in and sets the timer so the bread starts baking in the morning before anyone is awake.This means the bread bake...

Believers aren't lemmings.The thing with lemmings is they migrate and they can swim. So as people observed this, they would literally see lemmings following each other over hills and off cliffs and into the sea. The myth became that lemming...