John’s testimony was a clear message that there was one greater than he who was coming. Nicky encourages us that as we wait for Jesus to come we can be actively telling as many people as possible about him, but from a place of grace and not works.

Anna helps us look at the stories of two people, Simeon and Anna, who have waited a long time for the promised Messiah. It can be hard to wait sometimes, we can doubt that we’ve heard God or that he is still there. These two stories give us some clues as to how to wait well – with devotion, worship, prayer and fasting.

In the 2nd part of our mini-series on Leadership, John and Abi speak about the changes that will be taking place over the coming months to the Leadership structure of River City as we transition from a church plant to a church.

In this first of a two-part mini-series John speaks about what biblical leadership should look like, in preparation for River City transitioning from a church plant led by John and Abi to a church with a Senior Leadership Team.

We reach the end of Proverbs, and are given a wonderful summary, a literal A-Z of wisdom (in Hebrew each line begins with the next letter of the alphabet). If you want to know what wisdom looks like, and by extension if you are living wisely, then this is her. Have you fallen in love with wisdom?

It is foolish to place our trust in anything other than God, but it is easy to do so. We often believe in the strength or reliability of other things – finances, health, relationships, power, even our own cleverness. But that is folly. We must place our trust in the One who knows all things and controls all things.

Folly tries to teach us that our lives will be complete, happy and fulfilled by the things outside of ourselves that come into our lives – possessions, people, status etc. But Proverbs teaches us that the wisdom know that things work from the inside out, not the outside in. If we ensure that our hearts are submitted fully to God and seeking after life in him then we will experience true fulfilment and fruitfulness.

In the last of his 3 part mini-series looking at the Gospel of John, Ian encourages us that through the work of the Spirit we can experience God 'alongside us' in all 3 persons - Father, Son and Spirit.

In the 2nd part of this mini-series, Ian looks at how Jesus and the Father are one.

Ian introduces us to the Gospel of John by speaking about the wonder of being Friends with God.