There’s a huge hunger in our society to have authentic spiritual experience, but there’s little consensus about how we go about it. Will it come about through emptying my mind? Or through connecting with the natural world? Or perhaps through art or through worship music? Hear Jesus’ teaching about how to experience God.
Luke 13:1-17 Some have argued that suffering is incompatible with belief in a God of love. This talk examines how suffering is explained by some of the world’s leading philosophies…
Isaiah 42:1-12There are times when we may feel God has forgotten us, or we feel failures because of sin, or we feel despair looking at the state of the world. What does God say to us at such times? “Behold my servant”.
Daniel 1:3-21 Sometimes churches or individuals face crisis moments where they have to choose between denying God or suffering persecution. At other times the threat is much more subtle: just…
Are you feeling discouraged at the moment? Perhaps weighed down by past failures, or struggling with present difficulties, or worried about future uncertainties. Imagine getting home and finding on your answer-machine or voicemail a personal message of encouragement from God himself to you. That is what we have in this passage!
Daniel 1:1-2 If Christianity were true why is it so pathetic? Whatever place Christianity once had in our public life, it is now more likely to be seen as part…
Most modern people don’t quite get the Bible’s obsession with idolatry. We think of idolatry as an ancient problem for backward people who bowed down to statues, not a relevant one for sophisticated folks like us. But we aren’t beyond idolatry. We simply dress it up in different clothes.
Matthew 21:33-46 As we look around the world it seems obvious that Christians do not have a monopoly on doing good. In many cases Christians are put to shame by…
