| 7/3/2010 |
The Essential Human |
Luke 4 |
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| As Jesus begins his public ministry he is led into the wilderness and tempted by Satan. What's going on in this unusual story? And what does it mean for us when we face temptation? |
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| 28/2/2010 |
The Essential Hope |
Luke 1 |
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| The beginning of Luke's gospel is as unusual as it is captivating. This gospel, written to explain Jesus to non-Jews does not shy away from his Jewish roots. We begin the story in the midst of the faithful remnant of Israel, longing to be redeemed. |
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| 21/2/2010 |
Luke's Essential Jesus |
Luke 1 |
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| We kick off our series on the Essential Jesus, we're spending a semester studying Luke's gospel; and we begin by taking a look at the start and the end to see what it's like and what it's about. |
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| 14/2/2010 |
On being subject |
Romans 13 |
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| We worship God by giving him our whole lives - in chapter 13 Paul explores how that looks in the way we interact with governments and authorities that God has put in place over us. |
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| 7/2/2010 |
On accepting each other |
Romans 14 |
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| The Christian gospel brought something genuinely new onto the world stage--a multicultural religion. In Romans 14, Paul gives a profound, cross-shaped path for the Roman Christians to live with each other in spite of cultural difference. |
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| 31/1/2010 |
On love |
Romans 12 |
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| Love is the shape of the Christian life. As followers of Jesus, we are called both to love the family of believers and to love the outsider. Paul here talks through the how and why of love. |
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| 24/1/2010 |
On the use of gifts |
Romans 12 |
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| Some things are unified because they are the same; others because in their differences they work together for a common cause. The unity of the church is the latter kind--a unity in diversity in which God has caused us find our needs meet in the gifts of others. |
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| 17/1/2010 |
On the worship of God |
Romans 12 |
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| In Romans 12, Paul turns decisively to the question: How do we response to the God who did not spare anything for us? The answer, naturally, is that we do not withhold anything from him. This is the nature of true worship. |
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| 3/1/2010 |
Weak Samson, strong saviour |
Judges 15 |
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| Sex, parties, fighting and magic hair: Samson's story is action-packed. But what is it all about? Dave shows us how God used this hot-headed hooligan to save his people from oppressive foreign rulers. |
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| 27/12/2009 |
A hero comes |
1Samuel 17 |
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| It happens in every story. A hero always comes along, to kill the giant and save the people. As Dave takes us through the classic story of David and Goliath, he asks, what are our Goliaths? And will a hero come to save us? |
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| 20/12/2009 |
When a child is born |
Luke 2 |
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| A pregnant teenager, a donkey, a birth in a stable with sheep, shepherds and Kings from the east. We all have a version of the nativity in our heads - but how much has been embellished, changed or added in? When they tell the story, what do the gospel writers want us to know about Jesus? |
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| 6/12/2009 |
Autocrats, expats and big cats |
Daniel 6 |
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| Mark continues our summer series with one of the most famous stories in the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den. While Daniel's rescue may make kids feel warm and fuzzy, what does this story of a 6th century BC exiled Jew have to say to adults in the 21st century? Will those who worship God really be vindicated? And why should we worship God in the first place? |
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| 29/11/2009 |
Do you have what it takes? |
Luke 10 |
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| Kicking off our summer series on popular Bible stories, Ed looks at the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10, a well known but easily misunderstood parable - and scratches below the surface to ask what is it really saying? |
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| 22/11/2009 |
Guest in the house of Israel |
Romans 11 |
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| We reach the end of this part on Paul's letter to the Romans, chapter 11. Rory grapples with this confronting and controversial passage - can God be relied on to keep his promises? What are his plans for his covenant people Israel? |
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| 15/11/2009 |
Beautiful feet |
Romans 10 |
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| As Christians we often make things more complicated than they need to be - but in one sense the Christian call is very simple - call on the name of the Lord and be saved. |
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| 8/11/2009 |
Israel my people |
Romans 9 |
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| In Romans 9-11 Paul confronts a dilemma which is both theological and personal. If God is a God who keeps his promises, what happened to his people - Israel? Paul agonises that his brethren have missed out on the messiah... so what is God doing? |
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| 1/11/2009 |
Forever loved |
Romans 8 |
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| This week we reach a rightly famous passage: God works all things together for the good of those who love him. Rory unpacks this extravagant promise - to show that it is promising so much more than the motivational posters would suggest. |
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| 25/10/2009 |
Glory, Glory, Glory |
Romans 8 |
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| Rory unpacks the middle section of Romans 8 - we live in a fallen world and we together with the creation will suffer frustration now, but this can't be compared with glory that is coming and to which we hope. |
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| 18/10/2009 |
By the Spirit of God |
Romans 8 |
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| Having seen the hopelessness of life under the law apart from the Spirit in Romans 7, Kanishka unpacks the joy and assurance of those who are in Christ in chapter 8 - God has taken away our sin and given us his Spirit. |
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| 11/10/2009 |
The law gone wild |
Romans 7 |
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| Given that we are made righteous apart from the law - through Jesus - what's the deal with the law now? This week Rory peels open this famously controversial passage in Romans 7 to try and work out who and what Paul is talking about. |
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