At Christmas time, when you see the baby in the manger, do you see a baby? Or do you see a sign from God? What we see reveals who we are really trusting in.

Read the passage online via BibleGateway - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah+7%3A10-17&version=NIVUK.

Sermon preached at All Saints, Fordham, on 22nd Dec 2019.

At Christmas, why did Jesus need to be born as a baby? Couldn't God have done it in another way?  

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What do you want most from Christmas? Presents? Turkey? Tinsel? Family time? Rest? I think we are all searching for something deeper at Christmas...  

The page I refer to in the video can be found here: http://understandthebible.uk/start-here/

It's sometimes easy to get a view that everyone is "nice", except for a few bad apples. The Bible won't let us get away with such a rosy view of human nature.  

Read / listen to the passage online: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=judges+19-21&version=NIVUK

What does this passage in Judges teach us about how God does and does not want us to worship him?

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Have you ever done something so bad that you think God couldn't possible forgive you?

Read the passage online here.

It's so hard to get to church these days: sports clubs, shopping, work commitments, family time - not to mention you can get almost everything online including sermons, worship music, etc. It's hard to prioritise church. And yet, the Bible teaches that church is as important as it ever was. Why?

The article I refer to about the Sabbath is here.

Holman Hunt's famous picture "The Light of the World" portrays Jesus knocking at a door with no handle on the outside. Only you can open the door of your heart. But is that how grace works?

Read / listen to the passage online here.

Sometimes we just don't know why things are happening. This passage helps to encourage us that God always has a plan.

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"If you don't ask, you don't get" - is that how it works with God?

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