1 John 4:14 The phrase sine qua non is Latin for something which is indispensable. What for you is the sine qua non of Christmas? What is the key ingredient without which Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas for you? This talk explains why Jesus is the sine qua non not just of Christmas but of life itself.
Acts 16:30-31 A few years back the BBC did a piece on the 101 greatest questions of all time. What’s interesting about the Bible though is that it doesn’t just answer the questions we’ve got – it gets us to ask ones of we may not even have thought. In this talk we look at life’s biggest question of all.
Luke 2:22-39 In 2013 the 77-year-long wait for a British Wimbledon men’s champion came to an end, and joy and relief swept the country. Now that Jesus has come, the centuries-long wait for the Saviour is over. It’s party-time for our world!
Luke 2:1-20 ‘He came down to earth from heaven, who is God and Lord of all’. So says the Christmas carol. But is it true? And if so, why did he bother? And how should we respond?
Most modern people don’t quite get the Bible’s obsession with idolatry. We think of idolatry as an ancient problem for backward people who bowed down to statues, not a relevant one for sophisticated folks like us. But we aren’t beyond idolatry. We simply dress it up in different clothes.
