Churchcentral Birmingham: Talks

James opens up Jesus' striking story in Mark 12.

Last week we saw a scroll in the hand of Jesus. This week, he opens the seven seals that are on the scroll and what's unveiled is overwhelming and should strike us to our core.

As we dive back into the book of Revelation after a six month break, we're met with a stunning explosion of imagery and truth! We might not get all the details, but we can certainly capture the heart of it; to see Jesus afresh in all his glory.

Jesus enters Jerusalem as King! But how do we respond to him? Zoe explores.

What barriers do we put up for others? What barriers do we experience ourselves? Dave explores how Jesus speaks into our barriers and ultimately removes them!

Jonny wraps up our series by showing us the wartime tone of the end of the letter, and encouraging us to put on our armour and fight.

We look at some practical outworkings of all the gospel truths Paul has taught us in the letter so far. We look at some hard themes for our individual lives and our relationships, and seek to lean close and listen to what God might really be saying to us.

Nana walks us through some glorious moments in the life of Jesus.

At the baptism of Phoebe & Dave, we explored a passage of practical contrast for Christians and those who don't follow Jesus.

James takes us through another breathless chapter of Mark's gospel, and shows us our need for bread.

As our nation enters a period of mourning for our late Queen Elizabeth II, we continued with our pre-planned Thanksgiving Celebration for five children in the church. Rich spoke on three reflections on the last week, and applied it into the lives of the parents involved.

We finish the series with a look at the biblical narrative of God pursuing a bride. We see two implications for our relationship with Jesus, and two implications for our relationship to the church.

In the penultimate talk of the series, Jonny opens up the imagery of us as a temple, exploring what this meant in the ancient world and what it means for us today.

The New Testament teaches we are an army! Rich unpacks and helps us understand some reasons for caution and some truths to believe and apply too.

Jonny hones in on the biblical metaphor of Christians as 'foreigners'. By drawing on Israel's experience in exile, he shows us what it looks like for us to live as foreigners and exiles in Birmingham today.

The New Testament is full of 'body' language! It means loads of things, this talk & discussion touches on some of them and hones in on one big aspect. It closes with Becky Deare landing it into our relationships outside the church.

As part of our online content for Summer Sunday gatherings in homes, Jonny unpacked the implications of Jesus picture of 'yeast in the dough'. We see how this simple metaphor has huge relevance for our lives outside the gathered church.

Jesus calls people out in this chapter for their hypocrisy! Chris helps us understand what it means to be a hypocrite and how we can avoid it.

Jesus heads to his hometown with good news, but they don't see his glory and goodness! Zoe unpacks what this means for us, our lives and our callings...

As we switch to meeting in homes in our Community Groups for the summer, this talk / discussion prompt from Rich helps us explore Jesus' description of his followers as being 'salt and light'.

Are we to be full of grace, or committed to godliness? Are we to be radically hosptiable, or radically holy? The answer, according to Ephesians, is... YES. Rich unpacks.

In a world of disconnection and fragmentation, how do we model something different in the church? Jonathan - and the Apostle Paul - give five big keys to unity.

Jonny unpacks the immense fuel for prayer in Paul's own prayer for the Ephesian church.

In the second main session of the Weekend Away 2022, we now apply Joseph's story to our own lives, and to the journey we're on as churches. Jonathan touches on some of the difficulties and delays we've experienced, but casts a vision for future dreams in our city and beyond...

At our Churchcentral-wide Weekend Away, we had two sessions from Jonathan exploring the theme of 'Time To Dream Again...'. In part 1, we saw the staggering story of Joseph and his dreams. We learned that things tend to turn out 'very different' to how we imagine.