No matter what you've gained by being born, it doesn't matter unless you've been born again.

Jesus' first miracle seems a bit off the cuff, but it's full of meaning about who Jesus is and what he's come to do.

These messages have been prepared and presented by our 2T22 Preaching Training Group.

The world needs to hear about Jesus. Someone needs to tell them. We need to be raising up those 'someones' for the task.

The gospel - God's plan for salvation promised all the way through the Old Testament - doesn't end with Jesus' death, resurrection and ascension. God's promise and plan continues as disciples of Jesus proclaim his gospel all over the world.

When we read about the resurrection in the Bible, we can easily think the writers' agenda is just to convince us that it happened. Writing some thirty years after Jesus' death and resurrection, Luke's readers took for granted that it happened. What they need isn't convincing about rhe resurrection, they need confidence in the gospel. And Luke shows that confidence in the gospel comes from God's work through God's Word.