Jesus has overturned the moneychangers’ tables in the Temple. The Sadducees are furious and want to publicly dismiss him. But that doesn’t quite go to plan… and along the way we discover something remarkable about marriage and eternity.
Colin Brookes • Mark 12:18-27
Challenging Youth Violence: Church and Community
Where is the place of relationship with Jesus? What about when God feels distant? Maybe the place of absence and forsakenness is exactly where Jesus is waiting for us.
Lara Edwards • Mark 12:1-12
Challenging Youth Violence: Privilege and Power
We are called to pray in faith, a faith that is rooted in allegiance to Jesus as our Lord and Saviour and we are also called to pray prayers fuelled by forgiveness and compassion.
Mark 11:20-33 • Lizzie Osborne
Challenging Youth Violence: Education and Belonging
Jesus, Jerusalem and the triple rebuke of the Religious Elite. As Jesus enters Jerusalem on his final journey to the Cross. He issues a series of rebukes that to the naked eye, confront and confound. Natasha considers the meaning and purpose of these rebukes and their relevance to us, as ‘the Church’... the body of Christ, today.
Mark 11:1-19 • Natasha Beckles
Challenging Youth Violence: Birth and Bereavement
Bartimaeus was willing to shout out in the street, he made himself vulnerable. He wasn't proud, but he was desperate for Jesus and Jesus healed him. Colin helps us to think about what we can learn from Bartimaeus.
Mark 10:46-52 • Colin Brookes
Challenging Youth Violence: The Big Picture
Jesus teaches more on the topic of money than any other topic in the gospel accounts. What can we learn from Jesus' interaction with this man who was not prepared to part with his wealth?
Mark 10:17-31 • Colin Brookes
Jon & Stephen discuss: honour-shame cultures, how shame operates in current western culture, leading the little ones astray, the responsibility of leadership, our idea of hell vs ‘the veil of Hinnom’, losing your hand/foot/eye and pruning for growth.
Mark 9:30-50
What does it mean to be a child of God? Natasha takes us on a journey of repentance and the transformation of our minds to discover what it means to follow Jesus teaching that we are God's children.
Mark 9:30-50 • Natasha Beckles
Jon casts some vision for us for this coming year! Taking our cues from the way Jesus commissioned his disciples to stay low and travel light.
Mark 6:6-13 • Jon March
We all struggle with doubt sometimes. How can we allow our doubting to move us into a place of deeper dependence on Jesus rather than a place of despondency and despair?
Mark 9:14-29 • Lizzie Osborne
Jon & Stephen discuss the transfiguration: Jesus’ true nature revealed, Peter’s response, fighting our mortality and the human tendency to contain experiences of God.
Mark 9:2-13
Jon & Stephen discuss: the story so far in Mark and major themes - politics and power, faith and allegiance and repentance.
Mark 8:22-9:1
At the transfiguration we see Jesus glory revealed and we catch a glimpse of God's rescue plan! God has a plan for us now just as God always had a plan for the redemption of humanity.
Mark 9:2-13 • Colin Brookes
