Today we come to Psalm 23, arguably the most famous of passages in the Psalter, if not the whole Bible. Yet with such familiar words we can easily gloss over their meaning can't we? Let's hear them afresh today

We kick off a new series in the Psalms this term. We're shuffling our way through some greatest hits and mixed bag songs from the Psalter as we discover the many and varied words God has given us to sing to him in prayer. Today we consider whether Psalm 121 is trustworthy travel advice, or whether it's speaking to something more than a road trip.

Guest presenter, Mrs Lister, continues her two part journey looking at episodes in Luke's Gospel where Jesus confronts the good guys of 1st century Palestine. This week Jesus tells the Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector.

Guest presenter, Mrs Lister, takes us on a two part journey looking at episodes in Luke's Gospel where Jesus confronts the good guys of 1st century Palestine. This week Jesus meets Simon the Pharisee.

As we wrap up our series on the questions you’ve asked about Jesus, the final question to consider is even if there are credible answers to each of our tricky questions about Jesus, does Jesus really matter? Can he just be someone that Christians are into, but everyone else can just follow their own path? Essentially, can Jesus be true for you, but not for me?

No one likes to talk about Hell, not me, not you, not even Jesus; it brought him to tears. But Jesus spoke about Hell more than anyone else in the Bible. Hell must then be not a topic of choice, but a topic of urgency. Even so, it raises many questions for us about our loving God.

I broke this topic up into the 5 key questions I get asked in the classroom. There's more resources for each of these questions in the show notes.

It's the question that obliterates faith in God, it did for President Bartlet anyway. How could a loving God allow suffering? Today we hear why Christians shouldn't be embarrassed about asking or answering this question.

There seem to be a lot of religious people out there who are bad, so if I want to be good, then perhaps I should avoid religion? Maybe I should avoid God altogether? How does humanity fare without God?

There's some wacky stuff in the Bible and you might struggle to take it literally, because you think that doing that means believing it's true. But is that how speaking literally or metaphorically works? Is literal the only type of truth, or does a metaphor have truth too? How can we take all the words of the Bible to heart when so much of it is metaphor and so much of it seems literally unbelievable? Well, the answer at the heart of all the words of the Bible is one word in particular: Jesus.