African singing
Some wonderful singing from people at the Manga Mission near Beira, Mozambique
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Invited to the Father’s banquet
The kingdom of heaven will be compared to a king who threw a wedding banquet for his son.
Mixing Species
In these parables we’re hearing Jesus describe what it’s like to live in the Kingdom of God
Who do you think you are?
Matthew chapter 11 reveals more about who Jesus is and how our reaction to him matters.
OK, now you do it.
This subject and passage are most appropriate on a Sunday when we’ve been baptising people because I want to talk about what being baptised is a picture of. Many years ago, when I was an 18 year old student, at university, studying Mathematics and piano in my spare time, I had a teacher called Belinda […]
Signs
Cutting Edge Christ – Matthew 8: We’re turned signpost from a noun <ppt> to a verb “I signpost, you signpost, she signposts”!! Jesus is signposting (and that is one of the meanings of his miracles). But what is he signposting to? E.g. girl I spoke to in a shop. I asked “Can you tell me […]
The Father’s pay scale
The parable of the vineyard manager. This is a profoundly worrying parable and we have to dig into it to discover what it’s’ saying.
How the Father invests
In today’s story our heavenly Father is likened to an investor who trust his investment to you and me
What the Father gives his son
STORY – timeless narratives from the world’s greatest story-teller. In this new series of talks, I look at some of the parables of Jesus to discover what he has to say to us today.