A few weeks ago, we welcomed Peter Gibson MP to the podcast studio to have a chat about his life and work. We wanted to get to know the man who represents our town in parliament as well as understand some of the practical things we can do and pray for. 

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IN CONVERSATION: Peter Gibson MP

Colossians 1.15-23.
Paul depicts Jesus as one who has all power and authority and is above all things. What do these truths mean for me today?
18 September 2022.

COLOSSIANS: Christ's Supremacy - Michael Coltman

This week Michael spoke on being a on ‘Jesus Community’, looking at what scripture has to say about building a church family that glorifies Jesus. 
We will not just be looking at what scripture has to say on the subject but also asking what these truths mean for us as a church practically.  We will be laying out vision for not just why we should meet together but how we see that happening in 2023 and beyond.

Jesus Community - Michael Coltman

1 Samuel 18.1-4, 20.1-42
This week Paul takes a look at the friendship between David and Jonathan, the son of King Saul. Jonathan's support, friendship and care in one of David's most difficult moments points towards friendships we should see in the church today. How can we as a church create a culture of reaching out to others in friendship while we focus on the new covenant in Jesus?
21 May 2023.

KING DAVID: David & Jonathan - Paul Davison

Join us for day two at the Christ Central Leaders conference. In this episode we give you a feel of what is happening in and around the King's Centre on the second day, hearing from different people attending.

DEVOTED: Leaders Conference 2023 - Day 2

1 Thessalonians 5.11.
Jeremy and Ann Simpkins came to Darlington to lay on hands for eldership, and Jeremy brought a word about encouraging one another as a vital feature of a healthy church. In fact, he exhorted us to put it into practice straight away and we have included here all the affirming words we had time for at the end of Jeremy's sermon.
26 November 2023.

Encourage One Another - Jeremy Simpkins

Matthew 12.22-37.
 As Jesus' relationship with the jealous religious authorities continues to polarise, they accuse him of being an agent of the devil. Phil Hillsdon explains how Jesus' response to them contains a challenge for all of us.
5 May 2024.

MATTHEW: Good Tree, Good Fruit - Phil Hillsdon

Philippians 2.5-11.
One of the most stunning passages in the Bible on the Christmas miracle describes the majestic, omnipotent Son of God humbled himself to become a defenceless spec, smaller than half a grain of sand, to become one of us, and save us. John opens up the passage and points out some of the implications for us.
8 December 2024.

CHRISTMAS: He Made Himself Nothing - John Lambert

Matthew 22.34-46.
At the end of a series of tests and traps from Israel's religious leaders, an expert in the Law is sent to test him one last time with a question about the greatest commandment of the 613 stipulations in the Law of Moses. Jesus answers with not one, but two commandments that summarise the entire Old Testament, before making his detractors look like mugs yet again with a question of his own, after which nobody dares ask him any more questions.
5 January 2025.

MATTHEW: The Greatest Commandment - Michael Coltman

Numbers 21.4-9.
During the last year of their desert wanderings, the Israelites complain yet again and the Lord sends venomous snakes as a judgment. But, in another foreshadowing of the cross that Jesus himself refers to in John 3, Moses lifts up a bronze snake on a pole, and all who look to it are healed. 
23 March 2025.

BEFORE THE CROSS: The Snake on a Pole - Michael Coltman

Deuteronomy 21.22-23 and Galatians 3.10-14.
In this fifth prophetic picture of Christ's afflictions from the Old Testament, an obscure detail in the Law of Moses is picked up by Paul in Galatians 3, shows how the cross turns curses into blessings.
We apologise for the inferior sound quality in the first 4 minutes of this recording.
30 March 2025.

BEFORE THE CROSS: The Curse on One Hung on a Tree - John Lambert

Philippians 2.1-11.
Josh Glendenning speaks on the beautiful passage found on Jesus in Philippians 2. 
1 June 2025.

PHILIPPIANS: Oneness in Jesus - Josh Glendenning

Philippians 4.10-23.
The letter to the Philippians draws to a close with some final remarks from Paul before he signs off and sends his letter on. The end of the letter focuses on giving and gratitude, and it has much to say to us about generosity and God’s supply of all our needs. 
13 July 2025.

PHILIPPIANS: Content Whatever the Circumstances - Phil Hillsdon

Ruth 2.1-23.
Back in Bethlehem, a destitute Ruth gleans barley in the field of a wealthy landowner called Boaz. He notices her hard work, protects her and provides for her. It dawns on Naomi that Boaz is a relative and potential “guardian-redeemer,” offering both Ruth and Naomi a glimpse of hope. In all this, God is subtly but decisively at work.
3 August 2025.

RUTH: God Is My Refuge - Phil Hillsdon

Ruth 3.1-18.
With the barley harvest now over and eligible bachelor Boaz showing no romantic interest in Ruth, Naomi devises a high-risk plan to bring matters to a head, which Ruth bravely delivers. As Christians, we live by faith, not by sight, and are called to a life of obedience. So this chapter is rich with truth for us as well.
10 August 2025.

RUTH: High-Risk Faith - John Lambert

Ruth 4.1-22. 
Chapter 4 of Ruth completes the story arc from ruin - to refuge - to redemption. After a last minute twist, Boaz marries Ruth, becoming her and Naomi's “guardian-redeemer.” Ruth then bears a child who will become King David's grandfather and feature in Jesus' family tree. The story of Ruth shows how God's wise sovereignty cannot be derailed, which is an unspeakably precious truth for us as Christians. 
17 August 2025.

RUTH: Living Happily Ever After - John Lambert

John 1.40-42 and Luke 5.1-11.
Simon Peter must be the most loveable and endearing of Jesus’ twelve disciples. Who cannot identify with his journey of faith, punctuated with human failings? But Jesus called him first and invested in him most because he saw particular qualities in him - qualities he longs to see in us too. 
31 August 2025.

SIMON PETER: Called by Christ - John Lambert

Matthew 14.22-33.
How do you move away from anxiety, towards trust in Christ? This well-known story of Peter's adventurous but wobbling faith has much to teach us about fixing our eyes on the Lord and keeping them there when it's tempting to divert them towards what scares us most.
7 September 2025.

SIMON PETER: Fear and Faith - Michael Coltman

Mark 8.27-38.
Within a minute, Peter goes from hero to zero as his prophetic revelation of Jesus' identity is followed immediately by a hell-inspired attempt to divert Jesus from his saving mission. How can we in turn grow in our expression of the prophetic and avoid getting it all wrong?
14 September 2025.

SIMON PETER: Confessing Christ - John Lambert

Mark 9.2-13 and 2 Peter 1.16-18.
Imagine standing with Peter, James, and John as Jesus is suddenly transformed before your eyes, shining with a brilliant heavenly light. What did this awe-inspiring event mean for Simin Peter then, and what does it mean for us now?
21 September 2025.

SIMON PETER: Christ Transfigured - Michael Coltman

John 13.1-17.
On the night he was betrayed,  denied and abandoned, Jesus ate a last meal with his disciples and interrupted proceedings to wash everyone's feet. Peter vigorously protested. Why was this so countercultural and what does it have to say to us in our very different culture?
28 September 2025.

SIMON PETER: Christ Washes His Disciples' Feet - John Lambert

Luke 22.31-62.
His threefold denial, predicted beforehand by Jesus with pinpoint accuracy, is probably the thing Peter is most remembered for. Despite his protests that he would never deny his Lord, fear overtakes him and his night ends in catastrophic failure. What instruction and hope can we take from this story?
5 October 2025.

SIMON PETER: Denying Christ - John Lambert

John 21.1-19.
After Peter’s threefold denial, the risen Lord Jesus offers him a way back. Standing by a charcoal fire, which must have reminded Peter of his dismal failure, Jesus pointedly asks Peter three times if he really loves him. Once that is affirmed, Peter is entrusted with spiritual leadership. How can we move on from our own failures and show that we love the Lord?
12 October 2025.


SIMON PETER: Restoring the Broken - Michael Coltman

Acts 2.14-41.
After the resurrection, restored by Jesus, Peter is a changed man. After Pentecost though, he is a new man. Peter is unrecognisable from all that came before once he is baptised in the Holy Spirit. How would you respond to Peter’s first sermon if you were listening in that day?
19 October 2025.

SIMON PETER: Preaching at Pentecost - Joe Iancu

Acts 3.1-16.
Peter’s day is interrupted by a man begging at the temple gate. As it happens, Peter and John (who is with him) don’t have any cash on them, but they do have faith in the power of Jesus Christ. So Peter tells the man, who is lame from birth, to get up and walk in Jesus’ name, and then helps him to his feet. When Jesus said that his followers would do the mighty works he did - and greater ones still - this episode shows that he meant us to take him at his word. Apologies; the first minute or so of Phil’s talk is missing from the recording.
26 October 2025.

SIMON PETER: The Healing of a Crippled Beggar - Phil Hillsdon

Acts 4.1-31.
Following the healing of the lame beggar (Acts 3), it all kicks off because the religious authorities can see public support for the new Jesus movement is exploding - at their expense. Peter and the apostles are roughly treated and strictly forbidden to do anything in Jesus’ name. How will Peter lead the Christian response? And how should we respond to public pressure to be silent about our faith?
2 November 2025.

SIMON PETER: Defying a Gagging Order - John Lambert

Acts 9.32-43.
The early church continues to grow in numbers and expand outwards under Peter and the other apostles’ leadership. Many signs and wonders are done in Jesus’ name as they preach the gospel. But raising the dead? Peter had witnessed Jesus raising Jairus’ daughter in Luke 8. But now he is asked to raise a dead woman named Tabitha. Will this challenge prove to be a bridge too far?
9 November 2025.

SIMON PETER: The Raising of Tabitha - Brandon Luna

Acts 11.1-18.
In Acts 10 and 11 Peter is involved in an incident that sees the gospel break free from its exclusively Jewish roots and start to propel outwards towards the ends of the earth. But Peter’s friends are freaked out by this and confront him angrily about it. How is Peter going to turn this sudden crisis into a window of opportunity?
16 November 2025.

SIMON PETER: At Cornelius' House - Michael Coltman

1 Peter 2.4-10.
Having focused so far exclusively in this series on what people wrote about Peter, we now look at what he himself wrote. In his first letter Peter describes the church as a temple - the place where people encounter the presence of God, where heaven meets earth. But this temple is not made of limestone, mortar, timber and glass, but of transformed human lives, filled with the Holy Spirit. Are you a “living stone”?
23 November 2025.

SIMON PETER: Living Stones - Michael Coltman

1 Peter 5.1-7
Is there a biblical blueprint for church leadership? It is increasingly the norm in the UK to have one priest for a number of churches. But the New Testament norm is the exact opposite; a team of leaders for one church. And not ‘priests’ either, but ‘elders’ (1 Peter 2.9 says that all believers form a royal priesthood). Who should be local church elders and what kind of qualities should we expect of them? Peter explains in his first letter. 
30 November 2025.

SIMON PETER: Healthy Church Leadership - John Lambert

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