As we 'ease' out of lockdown it's clear things are not going to be easy but instead will be messy. How can followers of Jesus thrive in messy situations?

This week James and Wayne explain what they and others have heard as they've listened to God through the Scriptures.

Judah, Tamar, Mrs Potiphar and Joseph. We learn from these characters where our desires can lead us, what a mess they can make of things or what a blessing they can bring to others.

This week we start to follow the story of Joseph and we discover early on that God uses Joseph’s circumstances to shape Joseph’s character for God’s purposes. Will we let God do the same with us?

In Genesis 33 Jacob and Esau meet. What can we learn from their meeting about reconciliation? Wayne looks at how not to do it, how to do it and what makes reconciliation possible for us.

This week James talks about how COVID-19 has revealed a fear of death and how the resurrection of Jesus can take away that fear.

Looking at the stories of Jacob and Jesus, James explains how we can come home to God and live differently in our homes as a result.

In Genesis 29 we meet Leah, trapped in a loveless marriage, competing against her sister and the property of dirt her father and now her husband. What can we learn about how God meets with her that we can apply to our lock down lives?

Exploring the story of Jacob and Esau, James introduces us to another Son who received a blessing that can change the world, through you and me.

Charles reviews Genesis 25 and considers the birthright we are granted on conversion.

What does it mean to live a surrendered life? In Genesis 22 Abraham is invited into fully trusting God. Trusting God with the best of his life and trusting God in a culture gone mad. What does this look like? What does it mean for us? And how is that even possible?

This week James recaps what we sense the Lord is speaking to us as a church at the moment, looking back to Genesis 19 and talking about how we live a surrendered life from Genesis 21.

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.