Luke 17:20-37 A game changer is something so big, so impactful, that it changes the landscape. The return of Jesus is a game changer. It certainly will be when it happens, for all of us, but it should also be a game changer in our lives now once we grasp its significance.
Exodus 25-31, 35-40What is the point of life? Some say there is no point, no design, no purpose. Others say there’s just the meaning we give to life. Others still say there is an ultimate purpose. But where do we find it? In an unlikely place. In a tent in the desert in the Middle East in 1500BC.
Exodus 33-34A close encounter of the third kind is one thing, but what about a close encounter of the God kind? Moses certainly had some pretty impressive experiences, but what about us? What kind of experience of God should we seek and expect today?
John 1:14 Sigmund Freud famously claimed that belief in God is just a projection of our childhood need to have the love and protection of a father-figure. Does it matter if he was right? What evidence is there that he was wrong?
Exodus 24:1-18William Tyndale said that the gospel is good news that “makes a man’s heart glad and makes him sing, dance and leap for joy”. But what is so good about the good news? And how can we grasp that more? And how can we recover our joy in it if we’ve lost it?
John 1:14 Sigmund Freud famously claimed that belief in God is just a projection of our childhood need to have the love and protection of a father-figure. Does it matter if he was right? What evidence is there that he was wrong?
Exodus 20:22-23:33 ’What has happened to all your joy?’ The Galatian believers to whom Paul wrote those words had a wrong understanding of the Law. It had robbed them of their joy and ran the risk of robbing them of their salvation. What is the relationship of the Christian to the Law? It’s vital we get this right.
Exodus 11:1-13:16 Captain Phillips is an edge-of-your-seat drama about the rescue of a container ship from Somali pirates. There’s nothing quite like a good rescue drama, but it can feel very remote from our daily lives. The difference with the rescue drama in Exodus is that it’s actually all about us.
Exodus 7:1-10:29 Domino’s Pizza have an online service called ‘Make a pizza legend’. You create your own pizza just as you want it and then even give it a name of your choosing. It’s not like that with God. We don’t decide what he is like. He reveals that to us.
Exodus 5:1-7:7 In Russia under Stalin millions of people ended up in labour camps. In present-day N.Korea, tens of thousands are in labour camps. But the labour camp is not a modern invention. They had them in Ancient Egypt too. But what’s it got to do with us?
