Mark 14:26-52 ‘We are the heroes of our time’ proclaimed the winning song at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. We like to think of ourselves as the hero of our own story, but the Bible assures that we’re not. Jesus is the hero we need.
"Failure" Tagged Sermons
Luke 9:37-50 Everyone’s trying to make a success of their lives, whether through their career, their relationships, their family, their reputation. William Carey said: ‘It’s not failure I fear, but succeeding at things that don’t really matter’. Listen in as Jesus talks about true success and why it can often feel like failure.
Luke 9:37-50 Everyone’s trying to make a success of their lives, whether through their career, their relationships, their family, their reputation. William Carey said: ‘It’s not failure I fear, but succeeding at things that don’t really matter’. Listen in as Jesus talks about true success and why it can often feel like failure.
Pride and Humility Humility says- ‘I can’t do it all’ – we don’t have power to do all the good we’d like. But humble people won’t just suspect their capacities; they’ll suspect their motives as well. Why do I keep acting like the universe revolves around me and not others? Listen in as Paul teaches the Romans and us.
Pride and Humility Humility says- ‘I can’t do it all’ – we don’t have power to do all the good we’d like. But humble people won’t just suspect their capacities; they’ll suspect their motives as well. Why do I keep acting like the universe revolves around me and not others? Listen in as Paul teaches the Romans and us.
Luke 4:1-13 The problem with temptation is…it can be very tempting. Listen in as we Jesus face temptation and bring good news- he resists where we give in and brings us power to change.
Genesis 25:19-34 We often think God’s plan is use the ‘best and brightest’ but God’s raw material for his people has always been those who by nature are failures. Listen in as Tim Ward teaches on the barge weekend away from the life of Jacob – whom God made the father of the whole people of Israel.
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.
Isaiah 42:1-12There are times when we may feel God has forgotten us, or we feel failures because of sin, or we feel despair looking at the state of the world. What does God say to us at such times? “Behold my servant”.