Isaiah 55:1-13Throughout life we may receive many different invitations – to parties, to weddings, to marry someone, to take a new job, to subscribe to Horse & Hounds…But the greatest invitation of all is God’s offer of abundant life in his kingdom. What is he offering, and how do we need to respond?
Isaiah 54:1-10From Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ to ‘Chunky to hunky’ accounts of beer bellies becoming six-packs, we love stories of personal transformation. This passage is about the mother of all transformations – the spiritual one that comes about through the work of the suffering Servant.
Colossians 1:28Fast-forward a few years. You’ve achieved all your lifetime goals – career, finance, family. And you’re now sitting in a private nursing home aged 82, and you realise you’d never bothered to ask what God’s goal for your life might be. How would you feel? It’d be rather late to realise you’d neglected what matters most. Don’t leave it til then. In this talk we discover what God’s goal is for your life.
Isaiah 50:4-11The question “Are you a Christian?” is not a terribly helpful one nowadays. According to the 2011 UK census, 59% of the population would say they are, but what…
Isaiah 49:1-14“How do I do broomstick crochet?” is a question of interest to no-one but a few specialists. “How can I get more joy in my life?” is a question of interest to all of us. The answer is revealed in Isaiah 49. It tells us how every day can be a party day!
Isaiah 42:1-12 Is Jesus really the Christ, the Son of God, come into the world to rescue us? What’s the evidence? At Easter time we rightly focus on his resurrection as proof, but one compelling strand of evidence we sometimes overlook is the Old Testament prophecies about the one God would send. In this ‘Prophecy for Dummies’ series we look at three of them in the book of Isaiah.
Mark 10:45George Orwell said there were four great motives for writing, the first of which was ‘Sheer egoism: desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after your death’. So much of life is self-serving. But that was not so with Jesus, and should not be so with his followers.
Revelation 1:17-18 The other day I found myself staring at a gravestone inscribed with the words, ‘In loving memory. Taken from us on Friday 7th July 2045’. According to the calculations of the online Death Clock, I have just 11,077 days left. The headstone was mine. Sooner or later that day will indeed come. What hope is there?
Revelation 1:5-6 In his 1941 State of the Union address President Roosevelt famously proposed 4 fundamental freedoms that people everywhere in the world ought to enjoy: freedom of speech, of worship, from want, from fear. Freedom matters to us as people. But does it matter to God? And if so, what is he doing about it?
Revelation 1:17-18 The other day I found myself staring at a gravestone inscribed with the words, ‘In loving memory. Taken from us on Friday 7th July 2045’. According to the calculations of the online Death Clock, I have just 11,077 days left. The headstone was mine. Sooner or later that day will indeed come. What hope is there?
