Psalm 4 Ever struggle to get to sleep at night? Ever lie there with your mind and heart filled with worries and fears and problems, or with a troubled conscience? In this psalm King David shares the secret of how to sleep in peace, even when your world is falling apart.
2 Cor 8:1-9 Explicitly or implicitly, our culture screams: ‘it’s all about the money’. We want the power, the status, the security it brings. Listen in as Paul gives the Corinthians a better way – a way marked by giving, not getting.
Money This recording includes a talk on ‘Money & how we should spend it’, as well as an update on the Barge church vision.
Image and identity Simon Ward has worked in fashion for over 30 years and was COO of the British Fashion Council. At this special event we interview him about life at the heart of the fashion industry and the difference his Christian faith made in his work. He then gives a talk on image and identity, explaining the Christian message.
Luke 7:11-17 There are some subjects we’re happy talking about (the weather, hobbies etc), but there are other subjects we try desperately to avoid. In this passage, we meet a widow burying her only son. Listen in to how Jesus can help us in the face of a topic we’d rather just avoid – our own deaths.
Psalm 3Ever get that Monday morning feeling? Your mind filled with worries and fears about the week ahead such that you’d rather stay in bed? Join the club. It’s a club that is at least 3000 years old. The writer of this psalm has been there and found a route out of the depths. In this psalm he has signposted the route for us.
Luke 7:1-10 We love to feel worthy. Worthy of a promotion, a payrise, respect, whatever it is. T.S Elliot said we engage in an eternal struggle to think well of ourselves. Listen in as we see what Jesus thinks of the whole goal.
Psalm 90What would you do if you had…15 minutes to live? In God’s eyes are lives are that short, or even shorter, like a dream. Our years are ‘soon gone…and we fly away’ (Ps 90:10). In light of God’s eternity, how will we respond? The world’s ways (which don’t work), or God’s ways?
Matthew 2:1-12In the UK we are more obsessed with Christmas than any other country, according to Google research. But we are less obsessed with the Christ of Christmas. That is very odd. If we get what Christmas is about, the Christ will be our magnificent obsession.
Matthew 1:18-25According to UNICEF 353,000 babies are born every day. So why should the birth of Jesus be celebrated not just by his family but by the whole world? Matthew’s Gospel makes clear that this is a unique birth producing a unique baby.