This is a story of extravagant, uninhibited worship. It is an outpouring of love that is likely to have made people feel very uncomfortable at the time.

What does uninhibited worship look like in our imagination? This passage challenges us to strive for that.

The question is not will your life have pain and loss. But rather what will you do with those experiences of pain and loss and who will you become throiugh them. Jesus has a plan for your pain, wll you bring your pain to Him?

When we make mistakes, how do we deal with them? How can we let God show us His way through?

Jesus is amazing, what he does and what he says makes people sit up and take notice. But it seems there are always those who do not 'get him'. Learning from John 9 we look at what can get in the way of us seeing who Jesus is.

How do we live as Christians in a sexually broken society? Too often we shrink back as Christians and end up compromised. Jesus wants to bring us to a place of healing and forgiveness in a way that transforms society.

At the moment in their festival when the Jews ask God for water for the year to come, Jesus offers them – and us – a living water that will quench our thirst for good: the Holy Spirit.

Does the act of remembrance point us elsewhere, to another world? A world of true lasting peace into which each of us are invited.

The power of God follows the purposes of God, which is found in the person of God. When we wonder where God's power is, we should look to His purposes and ultimately to the person of God and a relationship with Him.

We spend our lives taking risks, or trying to avoid them. Find out why taking what appears to be a risk with Jesus is no risk at all.

Jesus expects each one of us to play our part in the struggle against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms - using the weapons of prayer, fasting and giving.

Jesus meets us in our mess, reveals his identity and sets us free from our shame. He does this by His Holy Spirit who is an unseen yet visible force that moves in us to lead us into the work of the Father.

A man named Nicodemus goes to see Jesus. Why? I wonder if it was because he thought he might be missing out. Are you missing out in your life? And if so what can be done about it?

Do we expect Jesus to meet needs in our community? To do this in a way that goes beyond the bare minimum to overflowing provision? To be utterly gracious, entirely forgiving and to bring the supernatural into everyday environments? John challenges us to raise our expectations of Jesus, perhaps even to re-imagine who He is and can be for us.

In becoming children of God we are invited to live lives that point to Jesus. What lessons can we learn from John the Baptist in how to live lives that point to Jesus?

All of us are becoming something but what or who are we becoming. The good news in John’s Prologue is that God became human in Jesus so that we can have the right to become children of God.

As Paul’s journey continues so should ours as followers of Christ. To be witnesses we need to prepare ourselves to allow time for the Holy Spirit to come and enable us to spread the Gospel. This is not how it ends. The Gospel continues to spread in Bishopston & St Andrews. There is work to be done.

Paul knew all about storms at sea and even got shipwrecked. Here on land we all experience the storms of life and the shipwrecks too. Seeing how Paul responds, we can follow him by facing the facts, facing our fears and above all, praying.

What does it mean to have hope in the resurrection?

Do you know Jesus is alive? As we read about Paul's trial, the main dispute is around Paul's claim that Jesus is not dead, but alive! The others in the story have differing responses to that news, what's your response? And does it make a difference to your life?

In Acts 22, just after his arrest in Jerusalem, Paul defends himself and his actions to the Jewish crowd. He has much to say but in essence it boils down to this: I do what I do because of who is uncharge of my life. I wonder who is in charge of your life?