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…
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…
It’s been said that we truly see the character of a person when they are pressed. What comes out in those high pressure moments really tells us who we are.…
Every week as we get together on a Sunday, at some point, we eat some bread and drink something that looks like wine. Why do we do this? Is it just…
This Sunday, we're back for the last leg of our journey through Mark's gospel. We'll be looking together at a moment where a woman breaks up a dinner party to…