The Bible is a complex (and quite long!) book made up of many different parts from a great breadth of history. Mike Fuller takes us through the story of the entire Bible in just fifty minutes (with a bit of leeway either side) to give us the bigger picture of God’s plan within it.

In the second half of Acts 5, we begin to see the power of the gospel working beyond the obedience of the church. This is the unstoppable force of the gospel, to which there were and still are a variety of reactions. What’s your reaction to the gospel? What would you like it to be?

Setting up opposition is well-worn track to telling a classic good vs. evil story. This passage depicts two completely opposite behaviours, the model behaviour of Barnabas and the united sharing community of the early church vs. the deceptive and selfish behaviour of Ananias and Sapphira.

Why do Jesus’ followers start their prayer with, “Sovereign Lord…”? They were rooted in the certainty of God’s plan for their lives and His sovereignty over all things. This knowledge gave them great boldness, can you be bold?

If you were asked, “Who are you?” What would your answer be? Would you choose to tell them your name, your job, your hometown? When the Jewish religious leaders asked the Apostle Peter who he was he had a very different answer, could it be yours too?

After spending three weeks in Acts 4, we hosted a conversation between two of our preaching team, Fiona Dorman and James Stevenson. What does it mean to live out the belief that ‘Salvation is found in no other name under heaven except Jesus’.