Sharon shares a picture she had that may be helpful for some of us as we look over our lives.

Sorting Out The Pieces Of Our Life

Deb explores how rooting our self-esteem in God can transform how we view things.

Healthy Self-Esteem?

Cath chats with Donald about what fasting is, when to use it and why.  Turns out she knew far more than Donald

Questions of Life - What is Fasting?

Cath and Donald discuss the things we can do and say when people ask "Why does God allow suffering?"

Questions of Life - How do We Explain Suffering?

Cath and Donald reflect on the how God can restore hope and meaning, even if life can't go back to what it was

Questions of Life What Can or Can't God Restore?

Julio takes a verse from Jude "Keep yourselves in the love of God" and unpacks for us how we do that.

The Love of God

Why was it so important to rebuild the temple? What is the value of buildings to God and how do we apply the Bible's teaching on the temple today?  Donald explains and then Dan asks the questions

Ezra 1v2 The Value of the Temple

Are we willing to do the unpleasant stuff?  What might it be?

John 13v2 -5 + 12-17 Unpleasant Stuff

What is strength in God?  What does it look like?  How can we find this strength?  Prompted by the story of Jonathan and David, Donald helps us seek resilience 

Finding Strength In God

What do we long God to rid of in the world?  We may be longing for Jesus to return and get rid of all that is wrong, but what do we do if we fear his return and feel we are part of the problem.  Donald brings re-assurance with the words of Joel.

Call on God - Joel 2 & 3

Inspired by the writings of King David - Donald leads us through a personal reflection on the elements of worship we see in David's thoughts and actions and helps us  think this through for ourselves

What is Worship?  And why should I care?

Donald explores the story of Herod and John the Baptist with 5 different characters, each with a different experience.  A difficult story of sex and weakness, tragedy and coercion.  We all battle with our self-control and are damaged by other people's lack of self control, where can we find hope in this painful story?

Matthew 14  Damaged By Temptation

For Jesus, his own needs and the needs of others clash - Jesus needs to be now His own, the people need help. How do we balance the needs of others and our own needs?  Donald also shares his own experience of solitude and busyness

Inconvenient Compassion

We all struggle to pray.  Even the disciples, close to Jesus, needed help.  Jesus gives a template, not just set prayer, but an agenda.  Donald takes the Church through the themes but also shares his own failures in prayer and the importance of just keeping going

"Teach Us To Pray"

Why does Jesus wait to go to the disciples in their moment of need and why don't we have answers to the "why" questions?  What does Jesus feel about our fears, doubts and failures?  Donald takes a different look at a familiar event in Jesus' life and addresses these and other questions.

Is that really God?

Jesus is repeatedly annoyed with the seriously religious, for their hypocrisy - where they are zealous about the less important parts of faith and ignore the essential elements of the fundamental command to love.    How does this speak into our troubled world today and our daily living?

Hypocrisy, Christ-Likeness and Christian Values

It's Harvest and Donald goes deeper on a story from David's life about Kindness.  He also answers some questions texted in about Kindness and the difficult reality

Kindness - Thoughts and Questions

Jesus tells us to look into our hearts, rather than worry about the actions of others.  It's a tricky balance to manage the need to be honest with ourselves about our failings and yet also understand and receive the forgiveness of God rather than live in condemnation. Donald explores from Matthew 15

Concentrating On Our Heart And Thoughts

Looking at Ephesians 5:1-14, Deb explores why the problems Paul names in Ephesians 5 are still an issue today and how we might avoid destructive habits and instead expose ourselves to God so we learn how to live in love.

Ephesians 5: Imitation, sexual immorality, greed & foolishness!

Jesus is silent when we want him to say something, then to make matters worse he appears to say something racist and divisive.  What is going on?  Donald unpacks a tricky passage in the Gospel of Matthew and helps us find a deeper message of radical faith and inclusion

Does God Favour Some Nations? - Matthew 15

Deb and Donald discuss what shapes our thinking and what kind of things we can do if what we think doesn't match up to how Jesus thinks.

Why Do We Think What We Think About Ourselves?

A difficult story of shame becomes a wonderfully story of redemption, Paul continues his series in Genesis and helps us move on from what can feel shameful and useless in our lives into discovering how God can reshape and show his grace

Genesis 19 - Redemption

Donald looks at a story about Jesus in Matthew 15, at how the crowds react, how the disciples react and how Jesus responds - and which of these we might identify with as we seek to deal with the "crowds" in our society and their and our beliefs and fears.

Remembrance: The behaviour of crowds

Terry looks at Acts 1 and what we can learn as we look at Jesus and the conversation in this passage.

Is God answering prayers in this broken world?

Donald and Deb discuss how we navigate away from arrogance and poor self-esteem towards a healthy confidence and humility - what each of these mean, how we reflect on where we're at, and practical tips to move forwards.

Low self-esteem: Can we build confidence without being arrogant?

Can we find any clues as to the meaning of life in the Bible; what is the point of life?  When we come to Christ we discover the reason God has given us breath.  At our last baptismal service Donald shares our one purpose as it is described in 7 different ways in the Bible.

What is the point?

Deb looks at Ephesians 5 and two major obstacles that stop us from making the most of the opportunities that God gives us.

Ephesians 5 part 2: Opportunities & Obstacles

Some of the religious leaders ask for a sign from Jesus that he is from God, but Jesus tells them they already have it.  What was the sign?  And ... is it ok for us to ask God for a sign?

The Sign Of God

At our Carol service, Donald helps think about how our hearts might be the very home Jesus wants to live in

What Is Fit For A King?

Cath talks about building community and helping those who are isolated.

Do You Want to Be in My Bubble?

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