Revelation 1:17-18 Keys give you power. They get you out of places. They unlock doors. Without the key you’re trapped. And so death is a prison to which we’re all heading. And none of us has the key to get out of it into life beyond. But Jesus does. His resurrection declares him to be the only keyholder.
John 12:1-8 As we head into a new year, and a new decade, a number of us will say things like: “I want to be a better Christian this year”…or perhaps after attending a carol service we were prompted to think: “I really must get round to making more time to understand and investigate Jesus.” But what level of time and attention to Jesus is ‘appropriate? What is the right amount of effort to put into serving Jesus? See what John, the Gospel writer, has to say about your new year’s ambitions.
Ezekiel 37:1-14 The Wharf is a vibrant, bustling, thriving global financial centre with some 120,000 workers. But spiritually speaking, it’s a valley of dry bones. What hope is there? The vision which God gave the prophet Ezekiel is one of the most powerful passages in the Bible. It tells us how to turn dry bones into living people, spiritually speaking.
Ezekiel 37:1-14 Faced with death, whether spiritual or physical, we are helpless. But God is in the resurrection business. He brings new life through his Word and Spirit. And so proclamation and prayer should be our focus in a frantic world.
John 8:58 The problem with time is that it is finite. We only have so much of it. Rich people can’t buy more hours; scientists can’t invent more minutes. And all too soon our time will be up. We’re trapped in time, finite but longing for the infinite. We need more than time management gurus. We need Jesus, who said, ‘Before Abraham was, I am’.
Hebrews 2:9On Remembrance Sunday we remember the hundreds of thousands who laid down their lives to secure our freedom – and also the one man Jesus Christ who laid down his life to set us free from sin and death. Interview with, and talk by, Lt Col Philip Bray.
John 11:25-26 Freud was onto something when he said ‘No-one really believes in their own death’. But we will all die one day. If only there were someone who had the power to stand up to death, and take it on, and defeat it, and save us from it. But who would dare to claim they had that kind of power? Jesus did. Listen in as we continue to look at his astonishing ‘I am’ claims.
John 8:58 The problem with time is that it is finite. We only have so much of it. Rich people can’t buy more hours; scientists can’t invent more minutes. And all too soon our time will be up. We’re trapped in time, finite but longing for the infinite. We need more than time management gurus. We need Jesus, who said, ‘Before Abraham was, I am’.
John 11:25-26 Freud was onto something when he said ‘No-one really believes in their own death’. But we will all die one day. If only there were someone who had the power to stand up to death, and take it on, and defeat it, and save us from it. But who would dare to claim they had that kind of power? Jesus did. Listen in as we continue to look at his astonishing ‘I am’ claims.
Luke 8:40-56 We hate feeling helpless – out the loop at work, unable to change situations at home. Individually, and as a society, we’re tempted to ignore the big questions we feel helpless before – like death and what lies beyond. Listen in as Jesus meets disease and death and proves he’s the one we can cry to for help.
