The Kingdom of God

Last night at our Bible study, we look at what Jesus had to say about the kingdom of God, a common theme in His preaching throughout the 3.5 years of His public ministry. John the Baptist before Him preached on this theme too (‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven...

In Christ Jesus

Today we looked at our identity as God’s people who are ‘in Christ Jesus’ (Col 1:2, 1 Pet 5:14, 1 Cor 1:2), This identity gives us a completely different identity to our lives before we knew Christ, as Eph 2:1-10 makes plain; the ‘before’...

Overcoming Temptation

From the age of twelve to the start of His ministry aged 30, we know nothing of what Jesus said. He worked as a carpenter like His father and had other brothers and sisters (learning family relationships as we all must!) His baptism was the start of His public...

The First Words of Jesus

We know quite a lot about the birth of Jesus from the Gospels, but very little about His childhood. His first recorded words in Scripture come in Luke 2:41-52, when His family went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover, and ended up returning without Him…...

Followers of Jesus

Tonight we looked at another description of God’s people in the Bible: we are followers. Passages such as Matthew 4:18-22, John 1:35-41 and Matthew 9:9 show us Jesus calling disciples to follow Him, and He still calls people to follow Him today. Not all those He...

Following Jesus

Forty-two years ago I started to follow Jesus. I was seventeen years old and had spent this equivalent weekend (at the start of the October half-term) with a friend, visiting her sister who had just started studying at Girton College, Cambridge. I had gone along to a...