Today Ann-See walked us through the accounts of Jesus miracles and interactions with people in Matthew 8. There we saw Jesus revealed as the Son of God, the one who has power and authority over every realm and all the powers of darkness. In light of this Ann-See invited us again to see Jesus as He is, the Son of God, and to come to Him surrendering to His power and allowing Him to bring the hope, healing and wholeness of the kingdom in our lives too.

This week we read through the final part of Jesus teaching famously called "The sermon on the mount". In this final part we discovered that Jesus, having invited us to walk in and experience kingdom goodness, cares about how that is lived out in our lives because He cares about His church. And so here at the end of the talk we find some teaching that calls us again to allow our hearts to be moulded by the heart of the Father and to live like Him in the here and now.

Having read Matthew 5 last week where we saw that we could never live up to the righteous standard of the law of God, this week we see Jesus pivot in His sermon on the mount and show us that there is one, the Father, in whom the blessing of that kingdom is found and here in Matthew 6 Jesus is inviting us into intimacy with the Father so that the kingdom He loves can take root in our hearts as well.

Today we looked at Jesus' famous teaching on the mount, from Matthew 5, and we discovered that this passage isn't so much a standard we are to strive for but instead Jesus showing us that we could never live up to the law of God. Through this what we found was that we all need Jesus, the only one who can be for us all that we fail to be, the only one who has come from Heaven to make a way for us to live as children of God in the Kingdom of Heaven.

This week Nathan shared with us from Matthew 4 looking at how Jesus has identified with us in our sin and then carried it off and defeated the enemy in all the ways we often fail, making a way for us also to overcome the temptations and trials of the enemy in our lives through Jesus.

This week we looked at Matthew 3 and saw that the baptism of Jesus was way more than a guy simply being baptised but a dramatic retelling of the story of new creation, and an invitation for all of us to start again in Jesus.

This week Matt shared with us from Matthew 2 where we discover some amazing truths about Jesus and that He is worthy of our worship. But Matthew 2 also forces us to ask how we will respond to Him, will we be a monarch (like Herod) and want the throne for ourselves, or will be Magi, those who will commit our lives to the journey of the praise of Jesus.

This week we launched our new 2026 series "Jesus is..." looking at who Jesus is revealed as to us through the books of Matthew and Revelation.

This week Matt walked us through the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1, looking at how Matthew reveals to us, through this list of names, that Jesus is the promised King and Priest come to save and restore all humanity.

As we wrap up two years reading through the bible Matt shared from the final chapters of the scriptures (Revelation 12-22). Here we saw how the story all folds together and comes to its triumphant end. All the way through the bible there is a character called the serpent, or the dragon, (the Satan) who in Revelation seeks to use beasts to enact his evil will. Today Matt unpacked, pastorally, what these beasts represent and how through Jesus the beasts and the dragon all come to an end making way for the beginning of new life, hope and peace in Jesus.

This week James did the first of two weeks that we have in Revelation, talking from the opening chapters and focussing on this being a message from Jesus to His church. Here we find Jesus calling out some things in the church that weren't great, but as James helpfully pointed out to us most of these things were rooted in the churches needing to rediscover their first love - Jesus, and this is what he encouraged us to do.