Haggai 2:1-9 Are you a nostalgic person? Some people are forever looking back to ‘the good old days’. It’s not healthy in life generally, nor is it in church life. Instead, we need to be working hard in building the church in the present, looking to the future.
Haggai 1:1-15 A lot of life is taken up with building – building our CV, our career, a family, our future, our business. But how committed are we to God’s building project? Are we, like the people of Haggai’s day, absorbed in building our own houses but neglecting God’s?
Acts 18:1-23 How do we keep going when times are hard? What about keeping reaching out with the gospel if we don’t see fruit? The key is that Jesus is with us!
Acts 17:16–34 Is Jesus really the best? Better than all the idols this world has to offer? And how can we have confidence in that?
1 Corinthians 15:20-26 Bryan Johnson recently launched a new religion called ‘Don’t Die’. He claims it’s going to become history’s fastest growing ideology, as he goes to war with death and its causes. Sadly, it’s a war he’s not going to win. But the good news is that when Bryan can’t do, Jesus has already done. On the first Easter Sunday he defeated death, and will finally destroy it when he returns.
Luke 23 Where do you look for hope? Even when everything goes wrong? Good Friday shows us we have one sure hope that stands, even in the face of death!