Throughout the book of Genesis, it is clear that the people God chooses to use are flawed and broken people. Nothing has changed since then and God continues to use broken people and offer to breakthrough to broken people.

Leah is rejected and unloved by her father and husband Jacob. God sees her and uses her in His great plan of salvation.

Because of the resurrection we have a great exchange through Jesus. Peace instead of fear, forgiveness instead of judgement and freedom in place of condemnation. [This was recorded at our Chichester site.]

What did Jesus mean when he said "the one who believes in me will live, even though they die"? In this Good Friday talk, Joe looks at the life and death of death itself.

Jesus unequivocally declared himself to be king but he did it by behaving in ways we don’t classically associate with kings. He came riding on a donkey and he came with a gentle and lowly heart, and yet he came as king of the universe.

Because of God’s grace, there is nothing stopping us from being reconciled to him. Jacob was scared about reconciling with his brother who had wanted him dead; but in the end, Esau, like God the Father is even more keen to reunite than Jacob is.

God asks Abraham to do the unthinkable and yet Abraham has such faith in God and his promises that he is willing to obey. This obedience is only possible when it flows from faith that God is faithful and that he will provide.

God's judgement of sin and how we recognise and overcome using the characters in the story to help us.

The war in Ukraine poses many questions. How will this crisis end? How should we respond when we see terrible suffering? How does God view what is going on?  We need to be rooted in God’s word so that at times of uncertainty we know where our hope lies.

In Genesis 16, Hagar gives God a name, “You are the God who sees me”. God sees us in our wilderness and in our waiting.