The Cranmer Group Podcast

Tim helps us to think about what it might look like to be a 'courageous' disciple of Christ, following the example of Peter and John in Acts 4:1-13, as opposed to the (as yet!) timid Peter of Matthew 14:22-33. 
He suggests that each one of us, following the disciples’ example, is called to do three spiritual things:
-Keep our eyes ON Jesus;
-Keep our heart IN Jesus; and
-Keep your words OF Jesus.

Annie helps us to consider what it means to be 'hopeful' people of God, gaining inspiration from the (slightly unlikely!) source of the Lamentations of Jeremiah (chapter3, verses 17-26) and also Peter's speech to the gathered crowds on the first Pentecost (Acts chapter 2, verses 21-36) .

Looking at the examples of members of the early Church (Acts chapter 4, verses 23-31) and Jesus (Mark's account of the Feeding of the Five Thousand), Tim encourages us to be prayerful, both individually and collectively, and in so doing, obtain a heavenly perspective on our own lives, and on those of our churches and communities.

In week two of our preaching series, Bronwen moves on to being 'Generous' - the first of our Cranmer Group Values, which underlie how we seek to love Jesus, one another, our villages and God's world.

In this Harvest season, Bron explores God's generosity to us as expressed in Psalm 65's imagery of abundance, and the miraculous provision of Jesus' Feeding of the Five Thousand, in Matthew's account (chapter 14, verses 13-21), and reflects on how we can mirror this generosity to others.

In the first of a new preaching new series on our Cranmer Group's Vision and Values,  Tim sets out how we respond to God's love for us, in our Benefice Vision (“We are one, growing community of disciples, who seek to love Jesus, one another, our villages and God’s world”), drawing inspiration from 1 John 4:7-21 and John 13:31-35.

Annie guides us through the second part of Christ's teaching in the second half of Matthew 18 (verses 21-35), further exploring what Jesus has to say to those who follow him about God's mercy to us, and how we, in turn, extend that to others.

Tim tries to help us navigate some tricky pastoral waters, with Jesus' teaching about how we should behave towards one another in the family of his disciples (Matthew 18:15-20).

Tim continues our journey through Matthew's Gospel, looking at chapter 16, verses 21-28, and asking us "What is your true self?" (or, putting it another way, "What Are You Here For?").

We look with Tim at how Peter responds to Jesus' question to the disciples in Matthew 16:13-20, taking encouragement both from the certainty of his reply, and also from the ways in which the disciples are human like us, with all our failings, and yet they and we are still loved by Jesus, and given the task of building Christ's Church and God's Kingdom, here on earth.

Tim helps us - hopefully! - to understand better the potentially tricky passage from Matthew 15, verses 21-28, in which Jesus encounters the Canaanite woman. Her extraordinary faith in Christ results in her daughter being healed, and is an example to us all.