This is the gospel: One must live so one will go free. Jesus or Barabbas - his fathers son. The Father knew he would have to treat Jesus like Barabbas so he could treat Barabbas’ (like us) like his true son Jesus.

Our society finds failure compelling, because it shines a light into the human condition. But in Peter's story we find it is the cascading grace and kindness of Jesus that is compelling!

Sophie calls us to a life of Ruthless Trust! Brilliantly personal and biblical Sophie wraps the Fathers arm around all those who face life's big challenges. Death is swallowed up in VICTORY.

The story of the Bible was summed up in an everyday meal of broken bread and wine. Yet this meal is full of meaning we so often neglect and in doing so we fail to remember the gospel story.

What makes God mad? As Jesus clears the temple and judges the fig tree it's clear that fruitless religion is right up there. Jesus lifts the leaves and looks for the fruit of dependence on him, mission and intimacy with him.

When we weigh money in one hand and Jesus in the other what choices do we make - not in theory but in how it affects our bank statements? How much does Jesus self giving on the cross move you? A few pounds? 10%?

So often we put God in a box because to encounter him in worship is scary, so we create religious structures to keep him at a distance. We need to understand Jesus is with us by his spirit, and we are to be hungry to meet him in worship

Mark's use of Jesus' two stage healing of the blind man and Peter's confession of Jesus as Messiah illustrates that if you don't see Messiah-ship as the way of the cross then you will never be a disciple of Jesus.

We end up building walls and drawing circles and including us and excluding them. Here we find Jesus sets his disciples a practical Us and Them test, in which they fail to find their voice and pull down the barriers between Us and Them

Jairus' daughter is on the verge of death but Jesus waits and turns aside to a women who has touched him. What do we do when Jesus' timing is way out of line with ours?