One thing that Christmas brings into focus is family - and this can be a complex mix of joy, tension and heartache. Yet an unexpected part of the good news…

It's the beginning of the Advent season, and this morning we're being taken in to an extraordinary encounter some shepherds had 2000 years ago. What they heard and saw is…

Heaven. Is it some distant escapist fantasy? Wishful thinking? Chubby cherubs on clouds with harps? According to the Bible, this is way off the mark and way too small!

It tends to get used as the most polite of swear words… “Oh hell… for the hell of it… a snowball’s chance in hell.” And yet it’s a word that…

Baked into the consciousness of just about every culture around is the world is the idea that this world is coming to an end at some point. The Bible ties…

Benjamin Franklin once famously said, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Taxes have been big in the news this week, so they seem fairly certain. Statistics don’t lie and…

We've been walking through Mark's account of the life of Jesus on Sunday mornings for the best part of a year, and it's all been about the most important question…

The tomb is open, and the body is gone. A man dressed in shiny white says, “He has risen; he is not here… go… tell!” What did the women make…

We’ve all seen coronations, either real or fictional… lavish, impressive, royal. And yet the greatest coronation in all of history looks like a humiliating defeat. How can the cross be…

If you had unlimited power, what would you do with it? Jesus had (and has) unlimited power - what did he do with it? The answer is the reason there's…