St. Luke's, Ramsgate

There are many things in life that are uncertain, but the writer of Hebrews wants their listeners to know with certainty how ‘the mountain of joy’ is unshaken.

What super power do we need to persevere as Christians, even when there is pressure to give up? Faith! This was the super power of the heroes of the Old Testament according to the writer of Hebrews.

Jesus has brought about a massive change. The Old Testament has been fulfilled in his once and for all sacrifice. But how are we to respond?

How can you deal with your guilt? How can you approach God as a sinner? Jesus provides the better answer, as the one who makes the better sacrifice to bring us cleansing. This talk is an all age talk.

What is better to be rich or poor? The answer is not straightforward and Proverbs taken as a whole gives a broad and nuanced teaching on how to be wise about wealth.

God did not create us to live in isolation. In fact we need to relate to one another in order to grow in our faith.

Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing? The internet is communication on supercharge, but just as face to face speech can be used for good or bad so can the internet. What we need is wisdom to speak for good in both face to face relationships and online. God's wisdom in Proverbs can help us with this.

Proverbs are written to help form a wise character. In this talk we consider two things to embrace and two things to avoid as we seek a wise character formation.

We are bombarded with pithy little sayings put together by advertising agencies that want to make us better consumers. Isn't it better to listen to pithy little sayings written to make us better people? That's where Proverbs comes in...

In Proverbs 8, wisdom is described as a person calling us to follow her. But where does she call from and who is she and why does it matter so much that we follow her?