This week we continue our series exploring the life of Joseph, with Adrian exploring Joseph's interaction with Jacob and how God's desire is for us to know hope in this moment - hope that sustains us, guides us and shapes us.

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9. Hope - Adrian Hurst

Daily Devo: James Part 13 - Teachers

Palm Sunday - Adrian Hurst

What does a good leader look like? This year, Oasis is exploring the life of King David - a leader in the Bible who was known as "a man after God's own heart". Ultimately, David's story is one which shows us that God is overflowing with kindness and generosity, that human frailty can’t derail his plans and his purposes, and that the one David’s life is pointing to even in his flaws and failures, the true King, Jesus, really is enough.

This week, Adrian continues the series by exploring God's focus on the hearts of two individuals - Saul and David - and how important it is for us to tend our hearts well in learning to live centred on Jesus.

2. The Shepherd's Heart - Adrian Hurst

What does a good leader look like? This year, Oasis is exploring the life of King David - a leader in the Bible who was known as "a man after God's own heart". Ultimately, David's story is one which shows us that God is overflowing with kindness and generosity, that human frailty can’t derail his plans and his purposes, and that the one David’s life is pointing to even in his flaws and failures, the true King, Jesus, really is enough.

This week, Mike explores the 'big picture' implications of David's battle with Goliath - delving into the themes in the story which represent some of the big themes across the whole sweep of the Bible. Together, he helps us to look at how this story reveals that the coming Shepherd King, Jesus, is the one we ultimately need; the one who comes to fight the ultimate battle and win for us freedom, hope, and life.

3. The Shepherd's Battle - Mike Blaber

What does a good leader look like? This year, Oasis is exploring the life of King David - a leader in the Bible who was known as "a man after God's own heart". Ultimately, David's story is one which shows us that God is overflowing with kindness and generosity, that human frailty can’t derail his plans and his purposes, and that the one David’s life is pointing to even in his flaws and failures, the true King, Jesus, really is enough.

This week, Adrian zooms in on the personal implications of David's battle with Goliath - focusing on the section of the story where David tries on Saul's armour and finds that it doesn't fit. Together, he invites us each to look at the 'giants' in our lives, and take comfort and courage from Jesus's life, death and resurrection, and the promise of the presence of the Holy Spirit with us.

4. The Shepherd's Table - Adrian Hurst

What does a good leader look like? This year, Oasis is exploring the life of King David - a leader in the Bible who was known as "a man after God's own heart". Ultimately, David's story is one which shows us that God is overflowing with kindness and generosity, that human frailty can’t derail his plans and his purposes, and that the one David’s life is pointing to even in his flaws and failures, the true King, Jesus, really is enough.

This week, Adrian looks at 'the secret to success', which, as it turns out, is actually nothing to do with success at all! Together, the invitation is to consider three characters and three attributes in the story: Jonathan and his celebration in others, Saul and his heart that constantly compares, and David and his humility, and to see how the truth that Jesus changes everything upends the way in which we are to treat our own success and the success of others.

5. The Secret of Success - Adrian Hurst

This week, on Palm Sunday, Mike explores Jesus's triumphant entry into Jerusalem, and compares the shouts of 'Hosanna' celebrating his arrival with the shouts of 'Crucify!' demanding his death just a week later.

Palm Sunday - Mike Blaber

On Resurrection Sunday, Jesus walked out of the tomb and changed everything, for everyone, everywhere.

This week, Adrian explores a little more what that amazing truth means for each of us, for our community, and for our world!

Resurrection Sunday - Adrian Hurst

This week, Alice shares some reflections on her time working in Nepal. What's God been teaching her whilst she's out there, and why is Jesus good news for us too, whatever our circumstances or situations?

Reflections from Nepal - Alice Gray

What does a good leader look like? This year, Oasis is exploring the life of King David - a leader in the Bible who was known as "a man after God's own heart". Ultimately, David's story is one which shows us that God is overflowing with kindness and generosity, that human frailty can’t derail his plans and his purposes, and that the one David’s life is pointing to even in his flaws and failures, the true King, Jesus, really is enough.

This week, Adrian explores a curious encounter between David, his men, and some local priests, where David is given a meal of mercy in the form of the sacred 'bread of the presence' which rested on the altar. Together, we look at what it means to both receive the bountiful, generous mercy of God, and to then be released to share that with others.

6. The Meal Of Mercy - Adrian Hurst

What does a good leader look like? This year, Oasis is exploring the life of King David - a leader in the Bible who was known as "a man after God's own heart". Ultimately, David's story is one which shows us that God is overflowing with kindness and generosity, that human frailty can’t derail his plans and his purposes, and that the one David’s life is pointing to even in his flaws and failures, the true King, Jesus, really is enough.

This week, Adrian slows down in the story to look at David in the cave of Adullam - a place which becomes a refuge for him and others as they gather there and are transformed.

7. The Place of Refuge - Adrian Hurst

What does a good leader look like? This year, Oasis is exploring the life of King David - a leader in the Bible who was known as "a man after God's own heart". Ultimately, David's story is one which shows us that God is overflowing with kindness and generosity, that human frailty can’t derail his plans and his purposes, and that the one David’s life is pointing to even in his flaws and failures, the true King, Jesus, really is enough.

This week, Rich looks at a story of David in 'The Waiting Room' - an place in-between the passing of Saul's kingdom and the coming of David's. This is a confusing and contradictory time, and David faces the temptation of reaching out and grasping for himself what God has promised in God's own time. As he wrestles with the difficulties of that place though, he offers three valuable lessons on how we too can live with perspective, patience and purpose in times of waiting.

8. The Waiting Room - Rich Bowpitt

Wellbeing: Grace To The Burnt Out - Adrian Hurst

Wellbeing

Wellbeing: Spiritual - Adrian Hurst

Advent 2018: Seeing Light - Adrian Hurst

Advent 2018: Waiting Expectantly - Rich Bowpitt

1. Introduction & Invitation - Adrian Hurst

2. Source & Shaper - Adrian Hurst

3. Giver Of Sabbath - Mike Blaber

In the second part of our 2019 Advent series, Rich explores the theme of "Home Revealed". Together we track the idea of home through the Old Testament and see how it comes to its fulfilment in Jesus, before exploring how we are to respond with "action while waiting" in the now.

Advent: Home Revealed - Rich Bowpitt

In the final part of our three-week mini-series exploring the season of advent, Mike and Jean consider what it is to live knowing "home coming". What does the reality that Jesus will return to renew and restore everything mean for how we are to live now? How do we live in the "now and not yet", the "here and the near" of the kingdom?

Advent: Home Coming - Mike Blaber & Jean Armes

In our first message of 2020, Adrian explores what Jesus means when he promises us "life to the full" - highlighting the life we have in him that we are to receive daily.

Life In Full - Adrian Hurst

In the second part of our new series 'Living with Uncertainty', Adrian explores how we can live with joy in all circumstances. Together we look at the story of the disciples encounter with Jesus on the road to Emmaus.

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2. Living with Joy - Adrian Hurst

In the next part of our 'Living with Uncertainty' series, on Easter Sunday, Adrian explores how we can live knowing Jesus's resurrection life.

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4. Living with Resurrection Life - Adrian Hurst

This week, we spend some time thinking about racial justice, and how Jesus invites us to a new life with him at the centre that breaks down every dividing wall between people. Within this, we hear from different members of our community about their experiences of being BAME in Britain, and take some time to pray together for God to bring breakthrough on this issue in our lives, our community, this nation and the nations.

Standing in the Gap - Adrian Hurst

This week, we continue our teaching series called "Living Prayer" exploring how to deepen our prayer lives by enjoying more of what Jesus offers - looking this time at the prayer of peace in Philippians 4. In a world with much cause for fear and anxiety, what does it look like to live knowing the depth of assurance that Jesus invites us to?

5. Prayer Of Peace - Adrian Hurst

This week, we continue our teaching series called "Living Prayer" exploring how to deepen our prayer lives by enjoying more of what Jesus offers - looking this time at the prayer of blessing in Numbers 6. Together we explore what it means to pray for God's blessing and how it's an invitation to receive again all that he has for us.

8. Prayer Of Blessing - Mike Blaber

This week, we start a brand new teaching series exploring some of Jesus's parables - short teachings that reveal something about who Jesus is and what He came to do.

This time we look at the parable of the wise and foolish builders. What does it mean to build our lives on the rock, rather than on shifting sands?

1. Story Of The Builders - Adrian Hurst

This week, we continue our new teaching series exploring some of Jesus's parables - short teachings that reveal something about who Jesus is and what He came to do.

Together we look at the parable of the talents. How are we to understand one of Jesus’ probing and unsettling stories about judgement? And how might it impact the way we live?

6. Story Of The Talents - Mike Blaber

This week, Adrian continues our new series "Recalibrate", exploring how small adjustments can make a big difference in our walk with Jesus. Together we look at how to slow down in a world obsessed with rushing from one thing to another. Jesus never lacked purpose or direction, and yet the pace he lived with ensured that he was continuously "present in the moment" - fully enjoying being with his Father and with others. How can we learn to do the same?

2. Slowing Down - Adrian Hurst

In the next part of our new series, "Recalibrate", which explores how small adjustments can make a big difference in our walk with Jesus, Vince looks at the topic of silence and solitude. Together we explore how Jesus himself lived with moments of silence and solitude to be with His Father, and look at practical steps we can take to build those rhythms into our lives as well. How can we cultivate lives where we are regularly pausing to enjoy moments of stillness with God?

4. Silence & Solitude - Vince Ricketts

This week, Adrian concludes our "Recalibrate" teaching series, which explores how small adjustments can make a big difference in our walk with Jesus.

We look at how these seven practices are to shape us moving forward – that it’s not that we have now “nailed this”, but that, like the Apostle Paul says in Philippians 3, we “press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me”. Our lives going forward are to continue to be shaped and recalibrated by the wonder of who Jesus is and what he has done for us, and that’s an invitation that we are called to receive again each and every day.

8. Recalibrate - Adrian Hurst

This week, Adrian starts our brand new, three-part Advent series, looking at how the light of Jesus breaks into the darkness of our world. Together, we look at how advent brings hope through the encounter between Mary and the Angel Gabriel.

Advent 2020: Hope - Adrian Hurst

This week, Rich continues our three-part Advent series, looking at how Jesus, the promised saviour, changes everything. Together we explore Mary's song in Luke 1:46-56 - an amazing song of praise to an amazing God who comes to turn everything upside-down.

Advent 2020: Promise - Rich Bowpitt

This week, Alice concludes our three-part Advent series, looking at how Jesus arrives into our world and into our lives to bring true hope to us. Together we explore Jesus's arrival as told by Luke in Luke 2:1-20 - a dramatic and powerful 'breaking in' that changes everything.

Advent 2020: Arrival - Alice Gray

This week we start a brand new series exploring the life of Joseph, with Adrian setting the scene and unpacking a verse right at the end of Joseph's story, Genesis 50:20 - "You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people." Together, we see how Joseph is someone who brings life to those around him, even in some tough situations, how his story points forward to Jesus, the ultimate life-bringer, and how the invitation for each of us is to be those who bring life in whatever circumstances we find ourselves.

1. Bringing Life - Adrian Hurst

This week we continue our series exploring the life of Joseph, with Alice looking at Joseph in prison. Together we explore how to find hope in the midst of disappointment - like Joseph, how to recognise what we are feeling, open our eyes to the hope found in Jesus, open our eyes to others around us, and open our hearts to what God is wanting to do in us. By holding fast to Him, we can know hope for the future, from the place of the rock-solid foundation of the one we are hoping in.

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5. Disappointment - Alice Gray

This week we continue our series exploring the life of Joseph, with Adrian taking us through Joseph's interpretation of Pharaoh's dream - a moment when the deep work that God had been doing in Joseph in the hidden place is revealed in the public place. Our call too is to be someone "so obviously filled with the spirit of God", both in our "big" moments and our "best" moments - allowing God to work through us whatever situations and circumstances we find ourselves in.

6. Filled - Adrian Hurst

This week we continue our series exploring the life of Joseph, with Adrian looking at how Joseph was positioned by God to bring life - not just to Egypt, but to many nations. Just like Joseph, each of us has been uniquely positioned to live out the same call to bring life through the power of the Holy Spirit at work in us. As Ephesians 2:10 puts it: "For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago." Out of our new identity - rooted and secured in Christ - we can step into all He has for us to bring life wherever we are placed.

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