2 Timothy 4:1-18 Fast-forward in your mind. You’ve just been told you’ve got a few months to live. You’re lying in bed in the hospice. Will you look back with regret, realising you pursued things of no lasting value, or will you look back on a life invested for eternity? Will you look forward with fear, or with just a vague hope of some hereafter, or with certain expectation of an eternal future with God?
Philippians 1:27-2:11 We all know we should look out for those around us, but when the pressure’s on, it’s all too easy for the world to just revolve around me. This talk looks at the selfless one at the heart of the universe and how he deals with selfish hearts and brings the inspiration to change.
Joshua 1:1-18Sometimes life feels rather mundane. Going to work, paying the bills, pushing the trolley round the supermarket, going to church. We long to do something heroic. But the Christian life is heroic. It demands that we be strong and courageous. It’s certainly not for wimps or those who just need a crutch in life!
Philippians 1:12-26 The motto of the wharf could be summed up in 4 short words- Make Gain. Avoid Loss. But what does it really mean to Gain? How do we define Loss? How can Paul, the Christian leader, believe that he’s gained, even when- facing imprisonment and death- it looks like he’s lost? Listen in as Jesus redefines our understanding of gain.
Isaiah 49:8-13 We have many competing demands on our time. In his previous talk, Richard urged us to prioritise carefully and say ‘no’ to good things for the sake of the best. But what are the best ways to use our time? What must we prioritise? Listen in as Isaiah shows us how God would have us live.
Genesis 35:1-15In the end Jacob became the leader of a nation, but it was a long and roundabout road the Lord took him down to get to that point. His experience is recorded for our learning and benefit.
Genesis 29:15-30 Often life doesn’t turn out as we would expect or like. But we can take heart from the experience of Jacob – the master who ended up serving, the deceiver who ended up being deceived, and the loser who was blessed.
Genesis 28:10-22 God’s M.O is to come to people who have nothing to offer him, and yet to show them grace and radically transform them into the people he has made them to be.
Genesis 25:19-34 We often think God’s plan is use the ‘best and brightest’ but God’s raw material for his people has always been those who by nature are failures. Listen in as Tim Ward teaches on the barge weekend away from the life of Jacob – whom God made the father of the whole people of Israel.
Revelation 12-13 Do you find the Christian life often feels like a battle? A battle to resist temptation and pursue godliness; a battle to keep going in faith and love and hope; a battle to read the Bible and pray and serve others in the church? It feels like a battle because it is a battle. We are at war. This passage gives us the perspective we need to keep going.