There is an army outside the walls, the city has hours left, and the king throws a party. Tim Horman preaches from Daniel 5, the chapter that gave us the phrase "the writing is on the wall".

Belshazzar knew exactly what had happened to his ancestor Nebuchadnezzar. He had read the testimony. And he still hauled out the sacred cups from the temple in Jerusalem to toast the gods of gold and stone. Daniel's indictment is not the sacrilege. It is five words: you have not humbled yourself.

This message goes somewhere unexpected. The same hand that wrote judgment on a wall in Babylon would write again, years later, in the dust in Jerusalem, defending a woman everyone else had condemned. Part of our series Resisting Babylon at One Church.

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The most powerful man in the world stood on the roof of his palace, looked out over the city he had built, and said one sentence that cost him everything. A year later he was in a field on his hands and knees, eating grass.

Darren Rowse explores Daniel 4 and the strange truth that God looks at what Nebuchadnezzar built and calls it beautiful. The problem was never his ambition or his success. It was the attribution. Pride, as Darren puts it, is amnesia about grace: claiming authorship of a life that has always been on loan.

Whether you feel like the flourishing tree or the stump in this story, the invitation is the same, and it is the only upward movement in the chapter that actually works. Lift your eyes. Part of our Resisting Babylon series at One Church.

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What would you do if everyone around you was bowing, and standing meant death? Linda Bailey takes us into Daniel 3 and the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, three men who refused to bow to Nebuchadnezzar's gold statue and met a fourth man in the flames.

Their answer to the king still challenges us today: our God is able to deliver us, but even if he does not, we will not bow. Is our worship of God the real thing, or just an insurance policy? What are the idols our culture is quietly asking us to bow to, on a Monday as much as a Sunday? Because of what Jesus has already done, enduring the ultimate furnace for us, we have already won. Part of our Daniel series at One Church.

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Empires rise and empires fall. Every kingdom that has ever claimed to rule the world has eventually crumbled, no matter how powerful it seemed at the time. So what actually lasts?

Tim Horman opens up Daniel 2 and the king's forgotten dream: a towering statue made of gold, silver, bronze and iron, smashed to pieces by a single stone that grows into a mountain filling the whole earth. It's a picture of every human empire, and of the one kingdom that will outlast them all.

If you've ever wondered whether the things you're building your life on will actually hold, this message is worth sitting with. Part of our series in Daniel.

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What if the story that seems to be over is actually just beginning? Tim Horman opens our new series through the book of Daniel, Resisting Babylon, looking at Daniel chapter 1 and the moment a teenager's whole world collapses, home destroyed, family scattered, identity stripped away and replaced. Yet even here, Tim shows how one small, quiet act of faithfulness can be the seed of a lifetime of courage. This is the first message in our Daniel series, Resisting Babylon: Faithfulness in an Age of Decadence and Death.

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Have you ever prayed for God to move in your life, and then said no when he actually did? In Acts 10, Peter does exactly that. Given a vision that challenges everything he thought faithfulness meant, his answer is "No, Lord." Alyssa McNight unpacks the story of Peter and Cornelius, two very different men whose prayers collide in a moment that changed Christian history, and asks what boundaries we've placed around God today.

Who is your Cornelius? And what is your "No, Lord"? This message is an invitation to abide in God until your response becomes, "Who am I to stand in your way?" Part of our Acts series at One Church.

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In Acts 10, two men in two different cities are both praying, and God is quietly dovetailing their stories together. Darren Rowse explores the meeting of Peter and Cornelius, a Roman outsider searching for God and a fisherman whose faith is about to be stretched wide open.

This is a story where the evangelist gets converted, the Holy Spirit interrupts the sermon, and the word "everyone" changes everything. Because we are not the missionaries, God is. Our part is simply to be available and to move when he nudges. Part of our series through the Book of Acts at One Church.

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How do you reach someone who is certain they're right? Saul of Tarsus wasn't searching for Jesus. He was hunting Jesus' followers, arrest letters in his bag, when grace ambushed him on the road to Damascus.

Darren Rowse explores Acts 9:1-22, the most famous conversion story of them all, and traces four movements of grace: grace sees you, grace finds you, grace transforms you, and grace sends you. If grace could reach the man who called himself the worst of sinners, no one is beyond its reach. Not you, and not the person you've written off. Part of our series in the book of Acts at One Church.

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Why would a good God let his brand new church be struck with persecution, prison and death before it had barely drawn breath? In this message Linda Bailey opens Acts 8:1-8, where the death of Stephen gives way to fierce persecution, and asks the question every one of us eventually faces: why does God allow suffering?

Linda contrasts the Western, Eastern and Christian ways of reading our pain, and lands on the difference that changes everything: we worship a God who is both sovereign and suffering. He has a plan we cannot always see, and he has gone to the cross himself, so that when we suffer he understands and comes alongside us. Remarkably, in just eight verses, persecution gives way to great joy in a whole city. Part of our Acts series at One Church.

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What if the place where you spend most of your waking hours, your job, is exactly where Jesus most wants to meet you?

In part two of his message on disciple-making, Tim Horman opens up Jesus' Great Commission in Matthew 28 and asks a question the church rarely talks about: how do we connect the faith we experience on a Sunday to the ordinary work we do Monday to Friday? Drawing on Dallas Willard, Tim challenges us to stop living two separate lives and to see our everyday work, our homes and our friendships as the primary places where we learn to live as Jesus would. The pressure is off, because the same Jesus who holds all authority promises to be with us always. Part of our Together Togather Mission Month at One Church.

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