Nehemiah 2:9-3:32 Do you ever get the fear of missing out? The good news of this week’s passage is that when it comes to building the people of God, we don’t have to! Nehemiah trusts God and the people get to work, just as we can trust that Christ will build his Church and can join in.
Nehemiah 1–2:8 In the face of extreme bad news God sends Nehemiah to rebuild his people, this isn’t a dramatic sending, but one that is soaked in prayerful obedience. How do we react when we hear bad news? How do we follow God when life is hard?
Mark 1:40-2:17 At this time of global pandemic, everyone’s biggest problem is not the coronavirus but sin. And everyone’s biggest need is not a vaccine but the forgiveness of sins. So it’s the best news ever that Jesus has authority to forgive sins and has come for sinners!
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.
Mark 1:1-15 ‘A frankly terrible year’. The New Zealand PM summed up 2020 pretty well. We long for good news. And that is why Mark is such a timely book for us to start going through – because it is about good news for us and our world.
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.
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.
Titus 3 In our public life, we are to be devoted to good works, not going back to foolish ways, but confirming that we are indeed heirs according to the hope of eternal life. The gospel produces Godly Christians in the World.
Titus 2 Paul wants Titus to teach sound doctrine, the Grace and Glory of Christ, and this leads to transformed people, affecting how we relate to one another.
Titus 1:5–16 Paul wants the church’s in Crete to remain faithful, so instructs Titus to appoint Godly elders, emphasising that good doctrine produces a Godly and gospel focussed church.