Luke 15:11-32 There are two ways to reject God – one is to be very bad and break all the rules, and the other is to be very good and think you keep all the rules. In this talk on the ‘Parable of the Prodigal Son’ Rico Tice unpacks how God in his love has come looking for both types of lost people.
Philippians 3:1-16 Do you think you’re a Perfectionist? Or maybe someone close to you is? Some studies say that around 80% of gifted people are, so in London you’re not alone! We’ll be thinking through what Perfectionism is, where it leads us, and what hope there is in the Gospel for Perfectionists.
Luke 3:1-20 Some say we’ve had a lot of bad news recently, but that Christianity’s news isn’t any better. Listen in as Luke shows us the truly good news of a gospel that isn’t fake, arrogant or spineless.
Luke 3:1-20 Some say we’ve had a lot of bad news recently, but that Christianity’s news isn’t any better. Listen in as Luke shows why John the Baptist brought such good news.
Various What does it mean to say that the gospel is about all of life? The gospel is only an inch from all of life, and deals with the deepest issues of the human heart.
I wonder how would you react if you saw a church leader having lunch with a group of people who were guilty of fraud? Or maybe a Bible study leader hanging out with known drug addicts? Would you be a bit shocked, perhaps even judgmental, that they would even consider associating with such people? This is how Jesus was treated by the religious people of his day. We can distance ourselves from God not only in obvious rejection of him, but also in our religious morality – and this can be the more dangerous if it goes undetected…
James Cary is an award-winning comedy writer for BBC, having co-written two series of Bluestone 42 (BBC3), and worked on Miranda (BBC1) and My Family (BBC1) and numerous Radio 4 shows starring Milton Jones, David Mitchell and Marcus Brigstocke. Here he is interviewed, and then speaks on: “The Gospel According to Sitcoms, what comedy tells…
