B&A Church Podcast

This is the first in a new series of monthly podcasts exploring some of the key discipleship questions that get asked in our Little Churches and the theology behind them. In this episode we’re looking at 4 key theological concepts: The Kingdom of God, the Church, the World, and Culture.

We're in a new series, Home, helping us understand where we are in an uncertain world. This week, James explains some of the history of the exile from the Old Testament and explores why embracing God's holiness can help others see Jesus. In our Little Churches this week we asked these questions: How are those you are serving experiencing the world right now? How are you presenting Jesus to them? W...

Who is the Lord of your history? In the second of our series of talks on Home, seeking to understand where we are in an uncertain world, we're looking again at Jeremiah's letter to the Israelites who have been carried into exile in Babylon. Wayne unpacks what God is saying to them and what he might be saying to us now. God is in charge, he has a plan and he has promised that even in Babylon we can...

How do we follow Jesus well in uncertain times? This week at The Gathering we began our new series, Home, learning from the exile. Wayne spoke from Jeremiah 29 about our identity that finds its home in Jesus. This culture is not our home, Jesus is our home. But because Jesus is our home, we can make our home in this culture.  In our Little Churches we discussed these questions: Is Jesus my ho...

Most of us will be taking a break over the summer but there are some things that we shouldn't stop doing - and following Jesus together is one of them! That's why on Sunday at The Gathering we launched the B&A Summer Challenge.  If you missed out I'm afraid you won't get the stickers but you can hear all about it on this week's episode of the Catch Up Podcast. You can find all the challen...

Better later than never, this weeks catch up is finally out!  Catch up from Sunday’s 17th July, where Wayne brought us a word called "How to become the best You, You can be" 

This week James sat down with Matti to catch up about the Sunday gathering. Recapping on our 'God stories' and how we can use them to Go and share the good news of the gospel with our friends, colleges and class mates. Part 2 we deep dived a little more into what it looks like to go in our weakness rather than our strength. 

Stories are important, good stories have a beginning, middle and an end. Great stories often have God in the middle of them!  - We looked together at how important our God stories are for GO'ing and sharing the good news with others.  Wendy and James caught up what happened, including a crash course in praying for the sick in THIRST in the second part of our service. If you weren't able...

On Sunday at The Gathering Wayne spoke from 2 Timothy chapter 2 on how to be strong in grace and give our lives away. We had some time in our Little Churches afterwards to discuss and pray for one another. We asked these questions: Who am I passing the Gospel onto? Is the Gospel the focus of my life? Am I willing to suffer for the Gospel? Is Jesus who I am strong in? 2 Timothy 2: 1-13 You then, my...

We had an amazing time celebrating Father's Day and God our Heavenly Father on Sunday - we shared communion together in part 1 and then spent some extended time in worship in God's presence in part 2 for our THIRST week. Kate caught up with Wayne about Toblerones, Father's Day, what Prodigal actually means in the Prodigal Son and what God did at THIRST. If you weren't able to be with us this is a...

At The Gathering this week we continued in our series on Live, Love, Give Go, talking about giving our lives away. James spoke from Matthew chapter 6 about how we can seek first the kingdom and live generous lives. Matthew 6:25-34 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more th...

On Sunday at The Gathering we welcomed Keld Dahlmann from Aarhus in Denmark. Keld is a pastor and the senior leader of The Order of Mission, a global network of Missional Leaders and Church Planters. For many years Keld has led and been part of missional communities like our Little Churches and he came to speak on loving others as family, continuing in our series Live, Love, Give, Go.  Yester...

On Sunday at The Gathering we continued in our series Live, Love, Give, Go talking about loving others as family. Earlier today, Matti caught up with Wendy about belonging in the family of faith. If you weren't able to be with us or want a refresher on what we talked about on Sunday this is a good way to catch up!

At the gathering on Sunday Wayne spoke from 1 Samuel chapter 3. We've recently begun a new series called Live, Love, Give, Go and the talk this week was about LIVING a life of prayer - how we can step into prayer as a vocation.

On Sunday we started our new series called Live, Love, Give, Go and earlier today Matti caught up with James to chat about one way we can include more prayer in our daily lives. If you weren't able to be with us or want a refresher on what we talked about on Sunday this is a good way to catch up!

Mark 13 The destruction of the temple and signs of the end times 1  As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Look, Teacher! What massive stones! What magnificent buildings!’ 2  ‘Do you see all these great buildings?’ replied Jesus. ‘Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.’ 3  As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of...

Mark 12 The parable of the tenants 1  Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: ‘A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall round it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.  2  At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.  3&nbs...

Mark 11 Jesus comes to Jerusalem as king 1  As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples,  2  saying to them, ‘Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here.  3  If anyone asks you, “Why are you...

Mark 10 Divorce 1  Jesus then left that place and went into the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Again crowds of people came to him, and as was his custom, he taught them. 2  Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?’ 3  ‘What did Moses command you?’ he replied. 4  They said, ‘Moses permitted a man to write a certifica...

Mark 9 1  And he said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.’ The transfiguration 2  After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them.  3  His clothes became dazzling whit...

Mark 8 Jesus feeds the four thousand 1  During those days another large crowd gathered. Since they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him and said,  2  ‘I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat.  3  If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come a long dis...

Mark 7 That which defiles 1  The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered round Jesus  2  and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.  3  (The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders.  4 ...

The very first words that Jesus says in Mark’s Gospel are ‘the Kingdom of God has drawn near’. From January to Easter 2022 we are journeying together through the Gospel of Mark to discover more about this Kingdom and the person of Jesus. In this series of podcasts we’ll be taking a chapter a week and expanding on the material covered at our Sunday Gatherings to help us dig deep and unearth some of...

Mark 5 Jesus Restores a Demon-Possessed Man 1  They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes. 2  When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him.  3  This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.  4  For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the cha...

Mark 4 The parable of the sower 1  Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered round him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge.  2  He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said:  3  ‘Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.  4  As...