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The Nature of the Church

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7. The kingdom of God is jubilee

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Reading from Luke 4:17-19 How Leviticus defines jubilee and what this means in ‘kingdom’ terms. While the Hebrew people rested on the seventh day, and rested their land on the seventh year, there is no evidence that they ever kept the ‘Year of Jubilee’ every 50 years.  Jubilee was for the cancellation of debt, freeing […]

Hope Into Action

Guest Speaker Ed Walker of Hope in Action shares about the organisation which provides homes for the homeless through the local church.

Cultivating Faithfulness 3

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Regrettably the first part of this talk is unavailable due to the poor quality of the recording.  The notes of the talk can be found here.  In the second half Rosie addresses the reality and paradoxes of experience in living by faith and our need to encourage one another.

I John – Word of Life

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Living in Christ. Liz starts our terms’ series in 1 John beginning with the important dimension of fellowship that Believers are to have with one another.

Christian Living 2

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The second in a short series of Christian Living, Allen Foster explores Philippians 1:1-11.  During the talk he refers to “Nathan”.  This is Bishop Nathan Amooti who was paying an unplanned visit to St James having arrived in the UK the night before.  Bishop Amooti (from Rwanda) has been a mission partner with St James’ […]

Blessings and Woes

In Luke’s record of Jesus’s “sermon on the plain” he contrasts blessing and sorrow, two contrasting expressions of life experience.  Is this a word for the church today as it was for the ‘People of God’ that Jesus addressed face to face? Today’s mantra “with man all things are possible” leans toward heaven-on-earth by our […]

Generous God 2

Rev Sid returns to St James to speak about generosity from 2 Corinthians 9:6-15, with three main points: that we know God’s character, we know God’s goodness, and we know God’s generosity towards us then we receive God’s generosity for ourselves, and then we pass it on and share it with others. Sid commends the […]

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