Matthew 6:9-13 The Lord’s Prayer is so familiar, but do we use it? Every day? We should do because it puts relationship with our heavenly Father at the heart of each day. It reorientates our lives around his name, his kingdom, and his will. And it meets our biggest needs – for provision, pardon,
Luke 15:11-32 This parable shows the lost nature of humanity, and the perfect grace of God in Jesus Christ.
Luke 16:1-13 Jesus teaches that worldly possessions are temporary but our relationship with God and the people of his kingdom goes into eternity.
Acts 2:42–47 The spirit filled church is devoted to God, to one another, and the Lord adds to their number! So we must look up, look in, and look out.
Acts 2:14–41 Peter’s preaching of the word explains what Pentecost means: the new age has come! The Spirit is here, and Christ is the king! But what will our response be?
Various ‘What can we be praying for you at the moment?’ How would you respond? Our requests are often quite different to what we find in the prayers in the Bible. The little prayers sometimes called ‘benedictions’ in the New Testament letters have different, bigger concerns. They challenge us to set our sights higher and be more ambitious.
Psalm 90 Vision boards are a visual representation of your goals in life. It’s a tool for helping turn your dreams into reality. What’s on your board? Is it what matters? Is it in line with reality? In Psalm 90 Moses shares what’s on his board, so we might make it our own.
John 17 If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, what would you pray for today? In this chapter we get to listen in to what Jesus prays the night before his death. What he prays for is what matters most. It’s what should shape our prayers, our priorities, our ambitions.
Matthew 6:33 How ambitious are you? Is that a good thing? What are you ambitious for? It’s good to be ambitious, as long as it’s for the right things. Otherwise we’ll be devoting our lives to trivial pursuits. In this talk we look at what Jesus says should be our no.1 ambition in life.
As Christians our view of sex is regarded by others increasingly not just as outdated and weird, but oppressive and discriminatory. The danger is that we become embarrassed and defensive. But there’s nothing to be embarrassed about. The biblical understanding of sex corresponds to reality as God has made it. It is a better story, and a better vision for human flourishing.