Darling Street Church

In this episode Mark Leach explains the New Testament teaching on 'energy'. After looking at the reasons why we don't find the term 'energy' commonly used in our English bibles, Mark explains the history of the translation of the original Greek word, before grounding all of this in Colossians 1:28-29 and exploring the practical implications of this energy paradigm.

In this talk Mark Leach helps us think about our longing and need for life beyond death as he poses the question, is death a comma or a full stop? If Jesus is who he said he was, then death is a comma, because resurrection awaits us, as it did Jesus.

Preached on Good Friday, in this talk Mark Leach helps us understand the central importance of sacrifice and submission in the journey to a great and meaningful life. This comes into clearest focus in the death of Jesus. 

What does it mean to live a great life? Will following Jesus help me get such a life? In this talk Mark Leach looks at the life of the Apostle Paul, as he writes in 2 Corinthians 6.

What should we do with our lives? In this section of 2 Corinthians (chapter 5:11 to 6:2), we find God's plan for our lives.  TLDR Become God's co-worker as an ambassador of Christ. New heart. New vision. New mission.

Brian Tran helps us understand the implications of 2 Corinthian 4 for our daily lives

We all seek glory. The question is how do we achieve this? In this talk, Mark Leach shows us, from 2 Corinthians 3, that only God has the power to make us glorious from the inside out.

In this talk Mark Leach helps us think through what God wants us to do with our lives. The teaching is based on 2 Corinthians 2:12-3:6

In this talk Mark Leach explores the complexity and challenges of healing and restoring relationships that have been damaged by one persons evil, or betrayal, or sin. It is based on 2 Corinthian 2:5-11

In this talk Mark Leach will share the 7 steps the Apostle Paul used in 2 Corinthians 1:12-2:4 to start to deal with the conflict with the church in Corinth. 

We start a new season of teaching studying the letter of 2 Corinthians. In this introduction Mark Leach looks at the first 11 verses of the letter, focussing on the incredible reality that God comforts us in order that we can comfort others with the comfort we ourselves have received.

In this talk you will learn how God has set us free to live lives of love. With an integration of Galatians 5 and Internal Family Systems theory, this is both insightful and inspiring and practical!

This exposition of Psalm 36 helps us understand our humanity and what this means for our connection with God.

As we start 2022 it is with the prospect of another year of uncertainty. Of disruption. Of a pandemic exposing the fault lines in our politics, our economies, our supply chains, and our hearts. So what are we to do? How are we to live? This passage, Luke 3:15-22, points us in the direction of hope. Hope that all that is truly broken in the world will be fixed. All the injustice ended. All sickness...

Mary shows us how to have faith in God even in the face of all the 'counter-factuals'

Listen to the radical implications of the way in which God chooses to fix/heal the world. In particular, the overturning of the human tendency to use  power and privilege for selfish ends, and thus setting the conditions for women to flourish and for men and women to get along!

In this episode you will learn some ancient ways of praying - breath prayers, fixed hour prayers, and then some experimentation with the postures of prayer that we find in the bible. Listen. Learn. Pray continually.

This episode explores how we are to Incarnate the Love of Jesus in the world.

This is part of a teaching series on the spiritual practices that help us live life with Jesus in the kingdom of heaven.

This is the first in a new season of teaching where we explore the spiritual practices that help us grow to become more like Jesus. You can find resources for this series in the book "The Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices that Transform Us" by Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

Have you ever wondered where to get the ability to love difficult people? Listen in as Mark Leach shows us, from John 13, how we can learn to love others, including the difficult and damaging people in our lives, the way that Jesus loves us. 

Listen to Mark Leach teach us how we can find security and peace in the midst of all the changes we are experiencing as we come out of lockdown.

Listen to the wonderful stories of Lisa Leung, from Open Doors, as she shares how we can support persecuted Christians around the world.

Exploring and explaining the way in which followers of Jesus are to relate to governments and those in authority

8 Steps to discipleship from the story of the blind beggar, Bartimeus in Mark 10:46-52