In Luke chapter 15, Jesus tells a series of parables, each with a powerful message about God's deep desire and commitment to find and restore those who are "lost". Many people have become lost in life and do not know where they are going. Even those who think they do, in reality, are lost without Jesus. But God's heart is to seek and to save them, and our attitude should mirror that restorative heart of God.

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There is a powerful image in chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation, of a heavenly woman about to give birth, and a dragon who wants to devour her new-born child, who is Jesus himself. Listen, and learn how you can overcome all the attacks of your spiritual enemy, and how God wants to bring something to birth in your own life too.

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God wants you to grow - to grow up into him. He also wants his Church to grow - in number and influence. However, just as a tree needs a good root system so that it can grow without becoming unstable, so you too (and we as a church) need healthy "roots" to be able to support what God wants to do.

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How do we navigate this time of "tension", between the victory of the cross and the final banishment of all evil? Listen to the wise and challenging advice Paul the apostle gave to the young man Timothy, on how a believer in Christ should conduct themselves whilst waiting in anticipation for the fulfilment of God's glorious eternal plan.

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At the seventh trumpet, in the Book of Revelation, we get to glimpse God's end-goal, as his "temple in heaven" is opened to reveal the "ark of his covenant". Discover how this means that, even now, you have access to a throne of promise and a throne of grace, whenever you need it!

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You are God's message to the world! In and through your life, God wants to display the wonder of his grace, so that you "flesh out" the message of his reconciliation and love. How does God do this, and how can you best work with him, to make sure that his message radiates as he intends?

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Many things (and people) in life can cause us to feel intimidated. How can we live and act so that we are able to refuse and refute the intimidation tactics of our spiritual enemy, and not give way to fear?

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Who are the "two witnesses" of Revelation chapter 11? What are they doing, and how does that speak to us, both personally and as a church? Discover how God has called you to be a Spirit-empowered prophetic witness, as part of a prophetic people which can suffer but never be truly defeated!

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In Revelation chapter 10, a huge angel with a little scroll in his hand gives a loud shout like a roaring lion and swears an oath with uplifted hand. What are we to make of this? God is a covenant-keeping reliable God, who will one day fulfil your deepest hopes, but who in the meantime asks you to "devour" his Word and make it part of you, in order to deliver it to others.

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Jesus encounters three very different people in Mark chapter 5, whose lives were totally transformed by the arrival of Jesus into their situation. God's presence is a transforming power that exposes darkness, releases the supernatural and often even defies human rationality.

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