Good News (5) – God’s family

Mark 3:7-35 ‘Oh when the saints, go marching in, O Lord I want to be in that number’. If we understand what is at stake, we’ll want to make sure that we are in that number. But there are many ways to end up outside the people of God. And some who think they’re inside are actually outside. This passage reveals how to make sure we’re in.

Good News (4) – New Wine

Mark 2:18-3:6 In the UK more than half of adults identify as ‘religiously unaffiliated’, or ‘nones’ as they are called. It increases to 70% for those under 30. More and more people want nothing to do with religion – but the good news is, Jesus felt the same way about religion in his day. What is the difference between following Jesus and Christless religion? That’s what this talk explores.

Good News (2) – Power display

Mark 1:16-39 What is the mission of the church? What is the church sent into the world to do? One book on the subject says this is the ‘most discussed and most potentially divisive issue in the evangelical church today’. This question of mission and priority was one Jesus had to confront right at the beginning of his ministry. We do well to learn from him.

Who has your back?

Psalm 121 As Christians we are on a long journey to the heavenly city in the new creation. How are we going to make it? So much could go wrong en route. How do we avoid being consumed by anxiety and fear? This pilgrim psalm is the medicine we need.

Hope in the face of death

John 11:1-44 With well over half a million people worldwide now having died from COVID-19, we have all been forced to confront our own mortality. But this is something Jeremy Marshall has had to face up to even before the pandemic began. Jeremy was in senior management for many years at Credit Suisse, and then as CEO at C.Hoare & Co., the UK’s oldest private bank. Now 57, he has a rare and incurable form of cancer. In this interview and Bible talk, he shares something of his story and why he has hope in the face of death.