Throughout the Bible it is possible to see God’s plan running through it, but along with God’s plan come God’s people, the ones involved in the plan. It’s not always easy to stick to the plan God has, and in the book of Acts we see just how hard it was for the early church.

Are you with the Magi or Herod? You may think the answer’s obvious; you may even be offended by the question. The Magi journeyed to worship Jesus, Herod wanted to find him for other reasons. What about you?

Have you ever been surprised by an invitation to an event? Or maybe you haven’t been invited when you think you should have been. The strangest combination of people were invited to Jesus’ birth and today, this Christmas, everyone’s invited (and that includes you)!

What defines our level of excitement for any given thing, is how we feel about that thing, whether it’s Christmas, a birthday, a house move, a wedding or funeral.  Disappointment happens when we don’t get what we were anticipating. Christmas is never a disappointment, and it's always super-exciting!

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?