Imagine if Jesus said to you 'Come away with me for a while, get some rest...' Would you then expect to spend the first day 'away getting some rest' in intense service to 15,000 people, the first night rowing for nine hours and not getting anywhere (as well as a nearly drowning) and then the day after that in more intense ministry and service? Seems Jesus' idea of rest is quite different to ours. Seems his idea of how to 'recharge' is radically different to ours. I wonder why? I really do...

Sometimes a bible passage is just so vile all you can do is call it for what it is. So here it is, MeGA 35: Vile. Can anything good come from the vileness of Judges 17-21?

Ben M takes us through MeGA 34; that is, session 34 in the 'Burn's Meet God Almighty Series and here we see Samson the chosen go rogue in all the wrong kind of ways. And yet God...

Faith isn’t just mental assent, or a profession. Of course it’s never less than this, but it’s also way more. Faith and faithfulness are exactly the same word in scriptures which has massive implications. The question of faith in a Deepwater Storm, like the one in today’s passage (Matthew 8:23-27), isn’t just will you doubt. It’s will you follow?

Seeking the face of Jesus in the face of God and our MeGA (meet God Almighty) series brings us to the atrocity of a man who, in the name of God, fulfils a foolish vow by killing his daughter. Can anything good come from this? Can anything good come when we insist on living in 'my truth' rather than The Truth. See the consequences of an unchallenged confrontation with our greatest enemy. And if you remember nothing else remember this: "Guide us in your truth and teach us for you are God our Saviour and our hope is in you all day long," Psalm 25:5

Seeking the face of Jesus in the face of God and our MeGA (meet God Almighty) series brings us to the mixed bag that is the hero Gideon. There's more to this dude than a fleece... there's a rolling barley loaf. And of course, some important lessons and trajectories towards the Lord Jesus. Hope it encourages...

Seeking the face of God, finding the face of Jesus in number 31 of our MeGA (Meet God Almighty) series. In this session we meet the the Honey Bee and the Thunderbolt… and we also meet the pretensions and the assumptions bloating our so-called solutions. Oh, and along the way we also meet a mother-warrior, a mother-tactician, a mother-judge and a mother-poet. And then we pop out the other side with a pretty terrific encounter with Jesus. Hope it encourages you. Seek His face… And if you remember nothing else remember this: "March on my soul, Be Strong!" Judges 5:21

When is weakness a strength? Find out with a look into the biblical account of the left-handed assassin Ehud. Through Ehud, be drawn into a realisation about the God who himself became weak, to enable his perfect strength to blast out of our weakness.

Luke 5:1-11. This sermon is the first in a series of seven answering a call to go into deepwater. I've been gripped by Peter's deepwater experiences with Jesus - both literal and metaphorical - so I've created this series as a a means of putting that same deepwater call to us as a church. I hope it encourages you to follow Jesus even (especially) into deepwater. In this first sermon a carpenter's son tells a fisherman to put out into deepwater. What happens next changes the world - literally. I hope this story and this sermon encourages you to follow Jesus even (especially) into deepwater. It's in the deepwater where true realisation and true transformation occurs. Blessings. A.

1600 years ago a series of seven latin hymns emerged - one for each day starting on the 17th December and finishing on the 23 December. The O Antiphons. Today, they take us deeper into Christmas. Today they prepare us for the deepest year of the decade. Today the prepare us for the deepwater of 2019.