The beginning of a new series "Between the Lines", exploring the timeless truth and richness to be found in Jesus's parables.

Jill Rowe starts, by talking to us about the parable of The Wise and Foolish Builders.

Bible text: Matthew 7:24-27

This is the Sunday service from our Church Weekender! Rebekah Gibson, our Communities Minister, recaps on the discussions from the previous day with visiting speaker, theologian Tom Oord. She concludes by speaking to us on "If God's not in control, how do I find my purpose?"

Bible text: 1 Corinthians 12 & 13

Dave Parr brings our series Let Us Pray? to a close, reflecting on the importance of lament as a prayer practice.

Bible text: Lamentations 1:7-11

Continuing our Let Us Pray? series, and we're discussing bold and impossible prayers.

Do we believe in a God who intervenes? Do we still believe in a God who does miracles? And what happens when those prayers aren't answered?

Bible Text James 5:13-16

**Apologies: there was an issue at the start of Nathan's talk, which means we've missed the opening but I think it become apparent what he is talking about.

We're starting our new series, Let Us Pray?

From unanswered prayers for healing to prayers of lament, we're exploring the Bible's approach to prayer and what that means in practice for us today.

Michelle Zahner begins by looking again at the story in John 9, 'Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind'. Acknowledging the pain that praying for healing can evoke, she invites us to look at these events in a different way and think about their application to our lives now.

Continuing Wholehearted, our short series looking at the range of emotions we see experienced by David in the Old Testament, Heidi Damon looks at stress. Bible texts: 1 Samuel 20-21, Psalm 142, Psalm 55:4-5

If you read the stories of David in the Old Testament, it's fair to say that this was a guy who wore his heart on his sleeve. At one point in the Psalms he writes:

"My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen on me. Fear and trembling have beset me; horror has overwhelmed me"

- but at other times he's jealous, he's angry, he's joyful, he's disappointed, and he mourns so unreservedly that he rips his clothes off and collapses to the floor.

Whatever David did, he did it Wholeheartedly – and over the next four weeks, we'll be exploring these emotions. Nathan Palmer introduces how we can see David and focuses in his disappointments and what we can learn for how we navigate those moments in our lives.

Bible texts: 1 Samuel 16 through 1 Kings 2, 1 Chronicles 11–29, and the many of the Psalms.

Our Senior Minister Nathan Jones interviews Palestinian activist, author and church leader, Munther Isaac

Today we're thrilled to be welcoming a panel from our Eco-Church group to talk about the steps we can take, as a community and individuals to tackle the climate crisis together. The discussion is chaired by our Communities Minister, Rebekah Gibson.

Jill Rowe completes our series on Sin: Retribution, Repair, and Repentance. She's looks at repentance and what a real understanding of it means for how we live individually and as a community.

Biblical text: Luke 15:11-32