Kes Talks

We haven’t seen any change in our loved-one’s lives. There are many billions in so many cultures who don’t love Jesus. What difference could you possibly make? Your life couldn’t count [for eternity]. But God does open the eyes and hearts of people Satan has blinded. Every believer is a miracle of new creation. But it takes people to go to people (cf Weds – we need others). Will you hear your Father’s call to leave your comfort zone, whether to cross the road or an ocean?
 
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 Recorded live at Keswick Convention 2026.

Keswick Ministries exists to refresh the church with joy in Christ Jesus. Through our annual summer Convention, our year-round events and free resources, we gather people around God’s word so we can become more like Jesus and enjoy living for him - wherever we are, and whatever we’re doing. 

Visit  https://www.keswickministries.org for more info. For info about books mentioned during the talks, go to https://uk.10ofthose.com/partners/keswickministries

You can change on your own. You don’t need other people; maybe not always the Holy Spirit. You can grow with just Jesus-plus-the-Bible. After all, you’re the only one in the world to struggle with this particular sin, problem or situation. You don’t need to be served or serve others. Satan loves to isolate us in our shame, selfishness and incurved hearts. Once dead (v1-2), but now alive by grace, we need one another to help each other become like Christ. And the Father’s purpose is to have one people, diverse and unified, sufficient to reflect the rich glory of his Son.
 
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 Recorded live at Keswick Convention 2026.

Keswick Ministries exists to refresh the church with joy in Christ Jesus. Through our annual summer Convention, our year-round events and free resources, we gather people around God’s word so we can become more like Jesus and enjoy living for him - wherever we are, and whatever we’re doing. 

Visit  https://www.keswickministries.org for more info. For info about books mentioned during the talks, go to https://uk.10ofthose.com/partners/keswickministries

Even the idea of talking to an invisible God feels daft. Our words seem to fall on deaf ears. Sometimes God takes a very long time to get around to answering, if at all, and doesn’t understand how important it is that he answers our requests our way. Because we turn prayer into a transaction, rather than a relationship. And can’t see who he is or what he’s doing. Paul’s thorn was a messenger from Satan, but allowed/given by God. God doesn’t answer Paul’s prayers but uses both the circumstances and unanswered prayer to re-calibrate Paul’s heart and character.
 
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 Recorded live at Keswick Convention 2026.

Keswick Ministries exists to refresh the church with joy in Christ Jesus. Through our annual summer Convention, our year-round events and free resources, we gather people around God’s word so we can become more like Jesus and enjoy living for him - wherever we are, and whatever we’re doing. 

Visit  https://www.keswickministries.org for more info. For info about books mentioned during the talks, go to https://uk.10ofthose.com/partners/keswickministries

Discontentment is deeply rooted in our hearts, and we nurse regret at what God hasn’t given us. Or resent the stuff he’s allowed. Our sufferings and trials are hard. And he doesn’t feel altogether good. So we grasp at other things to try snatch some goodness from elsewhere. But although we can enjoy all God’s good gifts in his presence and give him thanks (cf Friday), they are not a substitute for our God, who invites us to taste and see that he is good (Ps 34.8).
 
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 Recorded live at Keswick Convention 2026.

Keswick Ministries exists to refresh the church with joy in Christ Jesus. Through our annual summer Convention, our year-round events and free resources, we gather people around God’s word so we can become more like Jesus and enjoy living for him - wherever we are, and whatever we’re doing. 

Visit  https://www.keswickministries.org for more info. For info about books mentioned during the talks, go to https://uk.10ofthose.com/partners/keswickministries

There is a battle in every heart to trust God. That his ways are good and his words are true. Especially when real life hits us below the belt and people or situations make us doubt him, and our enemies or The Enemy attack. So this is not an apologetic for the infallibility of God’s word, but what that truth feels like to swim in on ordinary days when our hearts see a thousand reasons to be afraid and doubt it. Because what God says and who he is are the same. We have to battle to believe and enjoy God and his trust that he and his words can be trusted. In all of life. Every day.
 
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 Recorded live at Keswick Convention 2026.

Keswick Ministries exists to refresh the church with joy in Christ Jesus. Through our annual summer Convention, our year-round events and free resources, we gather people around God’s word so we can become more like Jesus and enjoy living for him - wherever we are, and whatever we’re doing. 

Visit  https://www.keswickministries.org for more info. For info about books mentioned during the talks, go to https://uk.10ofthose.com/partners/keswickministries

Most Christians have a nagging doubt God really likes them. He is constantly disappointed with us, and probably mildly irritated. We feel our guilt and shame, more than we sense we are made righteousness in Christ. We understand we’re saved by grace, but act as slaves trying to earn his smile. We can’t find our rest in the finished work of Christ. But we are so lost that Jesus would have to die for us. And so loved, that he’d want to. The Father, Son and Spirit are all committed to our adoption, and the Holy Spirit wants us to know how loved we are in Christ, that we run to God as ‘Abba’.
 
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 Recorded live at Keswick Convention 2026.

Keswick Ministries exists to refresh the church with joy in Christ Jesus. Through our annual summer Convention, our year-round events and free resources, we gather people around God’s word so we can become more like Jesus and enjoy living for him - wherever we are, and whatever we’re doing. 

Visit  https://www.keswickministries.org for more info. For info about books mentioned during the talks, go to https://uk.10ofthose.com/partners/keswickministries

Jesus is the great unifier and divider of the human race. What is the basis for the division? How do we make sure we are on the right side? And what does the community of those Jesus describes as his mother and brothers look like? In our final Bible Reading we'll consider the King's people. 
 
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 Recorded live at Keswick Convention 2026.

Keswick Ministries exists to refresh the church with joy in Christ Jesus. Through our annual summer Convention, our year-round events and free resources, we gather people around God’s word so we can become more like Jesus and enjoy living for him - wherever we are, and whatever we’re doing. 

Visit  https://www.keswickministries.org for more info. For info about books mentioned during the talks, go to https://uk.10ofthose.com/partners/keswickministries

One of the biggest questions for any disciple is this: "What do you do when you disagree with Jesus' plan for your life?" In Matthew 11 we see John the Baptist languishing in prison and that becomes the context for Jesus speaking into topics of doubt, true greatness and what underlies rejection of Him.
 
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 Recorded live at Keswick Convention 2026.

Keswick Ministries exists to refresh the church with joy in Christ Jesus. Through our annual summer Convention, our year-round events and free resources, we gather people around God’s word so we can become more like Jesus and enjoy living for him - wherever we are, and whatever we’re doing. 

Visit  https://www.keswickministries.org for more info. For info about books mentioned during the talks, go to https://uk.10ofthose.com/partners/keswickministries

Life in this world brings inevitable battles with Satan, sin, chaos, shame, sickness and the agonies of death. How does the coming of God's Kingdom in Jesus change those realities and equip us to stand in God's strength in the midst of them?
 
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 Recorded live at Keswick Convention 2026.

Keswick Ministries exists to refresh the church with joy in Christ Jesus. Through our annual summer Convention, our year-round events and free resources, we gather people around God’s word so we can become more like Jesus and enjoy living for him - wherever we are, and whatever we’re doing. 

Visit  https://www.keswickministries.org for more info. For info about books mentioned during the talks, go to https://uk.10ofthose.com/partners/keswickministries

We pray "Your Kingdom Come". In the opening Bible Reading we'll consider Matthew 8, look at the One who brings God's Kingdom down to earth and ask the question- "Is the Jesus in the Bible the same as the picture of Jesus we have in our minds and what difference would it make if we had a bigger Jesus?"
 
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Recorded live at Keswick Convention 2026.

Keswick Ministries exists to refresh the church with joy in Christ Jesus. Through our annual summer Convention, our year-round events and free resources, we gather people around God’s word so we can become more like Jesus and enjoy living for him - wherever we are, and whatever we’re doing. 

Visit  https://www.keswickministries.org for more info. For info about books mentioned during the talks, go to https://uk.10ofthose.com/partners/keswickministries