This week James explains how we can grow in our confidence or how to respond to a variety of situations we and our friends face. These situations all have one thing in common: sex. The story of Lot and his family in Genesis 19 helps us to understand how we might respond.

God wants to end cynicism in your life. It begins in encounter. Abraham learns that with God nothing is impossible, He can be trusted.

Abram has a problem. He’s left all to follow God but he is not so sure all that has been promised is going to happen. In Genesis 15 God steps in. Meeting Abram’s doubt and giving him reasons to have faith. Reasons that apply to us today.

This week James explains some lessons from Genesis 13 about how we can follow Jesus

Abram thinks he has a bit of a problem. There's a famine in the land. Pharaoh fancies his wife. He needs to act and fast. Genesis 12 teaches us about how not to respond when things get hard. It also reminds us that no matter what happens, God is at work.

Christmas is an invitation to put your hope in Jesus. Writing hundreds of years before Jesus Isaiah lets us see what happens when we put our hope in Jesus, why we can put our hope in Jesus and points to how this is made possible.

Our two vicars, Wayne and James, sit down to have a chat about what’s going on in the General Election and talk about how we can respond as Christians.

This week James talks about how easy it is to become stuck in life, and particularly as a Christian. From the story of Abram, we can learn about both how easy it is to become stuck and how to become unstuck.

We are shaped by our history and before. In the story of Abram we hear about those who shaped where he began and what he stepped out from. Sometimes it’s hard to keep going, taking another step on our journey with God. This passage encourages to be obedient in stepping into all God has for us.

We see the city of Babel’s attempts to reach God by their own effort, to make a name for themselves, rather than living into the identity God has bestowed on them, we ask ourselves the question, “who are we?” Where is our identity rooted and where do we need to level the towers to our own greatness?

Is the flood story simply for Sunday School and kids’ Bibles or are their truths about God in it that apply today? From Genesis 6,7 & 8 we look at the aspects of God’s judgement on Noah’s world and how it applies to our world.

This week James looks at the story of Cain and Abel and asks what difference Christ makes to our human condition and how we relate to one another.

Charles and Jane jointly explore Genesis 3 when death came into creation and work and marriage were disrupted. But despite our rebellion, God constantly calls to us: Where are you?

Humans are meaning-making machines and we find this through the stories we tell? What story do you tell of how we got here, how the world was made and why the world is this way. Wayne talks about the themes of Genesis 3, how they interact with our thinking on creation, evolution and where we are headed.

This week James explores a Christian response to gender diversity.

What does it mean to be human? Genesis 2 introduces us to humanity and God's design for who we are and how we are meant to be.

Christians have lost confidence in Genesis 1 with the rise of science and skepticism. This week James explains how we can rediscover confidence in Genesis.

A strong beginning is something to get excited about. In Autumn we have exciting new starts to look forward to in our individual lives, and at B&A. On Sundays we will be looking s at the book of Genesis, with that classic opening line: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

We live in a world where we're meant to show our best all the time. But what do we do with our worst? With the stuff we don't want anyone to see? We hide it away. Where it builds up. Psalm 102 shows us what God wants for all that stuff and to remember to bring it to Him.

On first reading Psalm 94 seems to be about God, the righteous and just judge, destroying the wicked. But as we understand more of God’s righteousness and justice, we also begin to realise the amazing extent of his love for each one of us.