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December 23, 2024 Advent 2024: Glory
This week, we take a closer look at one of the most well-known parts of the
Christmas story: the angels appearing to the shepherds. Who were the
shepherds, and how can we relate to them? What is God’s glory, how is it
used throughout the Bible, and how can we live Into our identity as image
(glory)-bearers of God?
By Tavia Grubbs
35 min
December 17, 2024 Advent 2024: the scandalous love of God.
39 min
December 10, 2024 Advent 2024: Christmas Joy.
For as long as our history is traceable, we homo sapiens have been
progressing, and by all accounts we’re set to hit warp speed on all that
with the dawn of AI. But the Christian joy that is celebrated at Christmas
is not about progress, it’s about a different kind of rescue altogether.
The wisdom of God stands totally outside of all our ideas of progress and
advancement (which we’d be fools to put too much faith in, if we look lack
in earnest at our past) What Jesus came to do was to set us right on a
cosmic level - forever, and completely. And what the spirit is here for, is
our daily access to Him, while we wait for the life we were always made
for.
By Hannah Flint
24 min
December 10, 2024 Advent 2024: Christmas Joy
For as long as our history is traceable, we homo sapiens have been
progressing, and by all accounts we’re set to hit warp speed on all that
with the dawn of AI. But the Christian joy that is celebrated at Christmas
is not about progress, it’s about a different kind of rescue altogether.
The wisdom of God stands totally outside of all our ideas of progress and
advancement (which we’d be fools to put too much faith in, if we look lack
in earnest at our past) What Jesus came to do was to set us right on a
cosmic level - forever, and completely. And what the spirit is here for, is
our daily access to Him, while we wait for the life we were always made
for.
By Hannah Flint
24 min
December 02, 2024 Jesus, deliverer from distress.
There is an epidemic of anxiety in the west. 50 million people in US have
been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. The number is rising. In today’s
talk we find the disciples in distress. Something they experience whenever
they are, or feel, separated from Jesus. This is something we will all
experience. Whenever we’re dislocated from Jesus, our anxiety will rise,
because we’re made for closeness to him. But Jesus meets his disciples in
all his power. He is the lord of glory - the great I am. He displays his
authority over all evil by trampling on the waves of the deep. And his
compassion and closeness is seen as he gets into the boat with his troubled
disciples. And as soon as he does so he alleviates all their fear.
By Ed Flint
40 min
November 25, 2024 Jesus, revolutionary shepherd.
Who is leading you?
Jesus sees the crowd in Galilee as sheep without a shepherd. But rather
than be the revolutionary zealot leader the people want him to be, he
reveals a different kind of leadership. He is the servant God who gives his
life up for the sake of others. And in word and deed, he alone is the bread
of life who brings satisfaction to the human condition.
We’re called to let him, the revolutionary shepherd, lead all aspects of
our life. Not least our finances. As we launch our end of year giving
campaign, we’re calling the church to let him be lord over our money, to
invest in his kingdom, and to be vulnerable with our finances, allowing him
to be our source of all security and protection.
By Ed Flint
48 min
November 18, 2024 Jesus, power for good.
In a rare moment when Jesus does not appear in the gospel, Mark tells the
story of Herod’s beheading of John the Baptist.
Herod’s story is a cautionary one about the misery that comes when someone
devotes their life to the pursuit of earthly power. Where Herod’s power
destroys, Jesus’ power, exemplified in the life of John, by contrast,
creates, redeems and sets free. It’s his power that we are made for and we
find it by dying to our broken versions of power and rising with him in his
mighty strength.
By Ed Flint
40 min
November 11, 2024 Jesus, scandalously lowly.
This might be as good a moment as ever to be reminded of the type of power
Jesus came to display. God of all creation, gave everything up, to live
among the poor and downtrodden, and face the offense that this wrought.
Jesus' lowly statues was an offense to everyone - to the elites, the
priest, and in our passage, his hometown.
And his answer in Mark 6? To send out the disciples in his power; to get
close to people, to free them from evil, heal their sick and preach the
good news. There is no clearer way to see the kingdom Heaven, than in the
moments we see worldly power fail so spectacularly. So, whatever it is we
feel about what’s happening on world stages, let us not fail to worship
Jesus today.
By Hannah Flint
38 min
November 05, 2024 Jesus, powerful kindness.
Power over disease. Power over demons. Power over death. What would a power
like that feel like? Is it scary? Is it intimidating? Is it comforting? Is
it kind?
In this talk, we zoom into two miracles given to seemingly opposite people,
and find out that they have more in common than meets the eye. Along the
way we’ll see how the power of Jesus and the kindness of Jesus are
intertwined, and how Jesus meets us in the midst of our circumstance, if we
open our hearts to him.
By Tavia Grubbs
34 min
November 04, 2024 Jesus, powerful kindness.
Power over disease. Power over demons. Power over death. What would a power
like that feel like? Is it scary? Is it intimidating? Is it comforting? Is
it kind?
In this talk, we zoom into two miracles given to seemingly opposite people,
and find out that they have more in common than meets the eye. Along the
way we’ll see how the power of Jesus and the kindness of Jesus are
intertwined, and how Jesus meets us in the midst of our circumstance, if we
open our hearts to him.
By Tavia Grubbs
34 min