Churchcentral Birmingham: Talks

We are spending our summer in the book of Proverbs. Today, Jonny looks at the calls of wisdom and folly to prepare us to get the most out of this wonderful book of the Bible. And as we'll see, this is not a casual matter. It's a choice between life and death.

The Israelites have been freed from slavery in Egypt. But to what purpose? Here in Exodus 24, we see a clear answer: They are called to live for God.

Jesus knows money talk creates anxiety and worry in us. So, he gives a huge chunk of time to addressing worry. We look at 7 deep breaths the worried can take, to help move from anxiety to trust, slowly but surely.

To encourage and strengthen one young woman at her baptism, Beccy facilitated four women of different life stages in our church sharing stories and scriptures of the wonder of Jesus. Get ready to be encouraged!

On Father's day, we consider what purposes God has for us, and how that should feed into our sense of identity.

We return to matters of our conscience. How should Christians engage with a culture that has different opinions and behaviours than we do? Do we run away? Engage? Compromise? Separate? Jonny explores.

We've looked at all the ways we can USE our money... but how do we get it in the first place? Does the word of God give modern people any guidance and guidelines around our income? Yes yes yes.

As we baptised Ava and Caleb, we heard from Rach about the wonderful good news of Jesus, whose love pursues us wherever we are.

Warnings from history are a tremendous gift to help us avoid the mistakes of those who've gone before us.

The Israelites have been saved out of Egypt by God, but who is this God? What is God like? And what does that mean for them? They get answers at Mount Sinai.

How should we engage in saving money? We learn about the wisdom of saving and the warnings about saving that are found in Scripture.

We live in a time where many of us are overwhelmed with busyness. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find time to rest. Yet, even when we do get time to recover, we seem to have forgotten how to properly rest. Hours of streaming tv and scrolling on phones leave us more tired than when we began. In this talk, we explore the practice of the Sabbath as an ancient response to modern condition.  J...

If the Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, what does that mean for us, who are part of that Kingdom?

What does the Bible teach about giving our money away? Why would we do such a thing? Where should we give it? Jonathan Bell came to encourage and strengthen our foundations in this key belief and practice.

What can we learn from the lives of athletes as we look to follow Jesus?

Spending is where the vast majority of our money goes, and yet disciples often struggle to know how Jesus impacts how we spend. What does a Jesus-honouring spend look like? How does our faith help us at the till, or when our online basket is filling up?

Stuart Crane from Real Life Church came to give us some advice on how to survive in the wilderness.

Emmanuel guides us through the Israelites crossing of the Red Sea.

Jonathan explores how we can be more like Boaz, because lives can change when someone is truly seen.

In this talk we learn how the highest use of our freedom isn’t to assert our rights, but to lay them down.

Money is a sensitive subject that brings all sorts of risks when we chat about it. So why teach about it? We look at a range of reasons, then compare and contrast worshipping God and worshipping money.

Zoe examines an example of how the Exodus story is remembered in the Psalms

Is it possible to be radically holy, AND engage meaningfully with the wider world we live in? Jesus did it, but can we?! Jonny unpacks from this passage.

The practice of witnessing to others about the work of Jesus in our lives is as old as the Church itself. How can we do this in our cultural moment? Becky speaks, followed by a panel of real stories.

It's hard enough to quiten blame and guilt and shame when we know we haven't done anything wrong. But what about when we HAVE done wrong? The gospel has two answers to make us blameless, and we round off 1 Thessalonians looking at them.