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This is the last parable of Jesus in the book of Mark before the beginning of his journey to the cross. The parable is about a master assigning tasks to his servants while he is away from his house. The parable warns that the master, Jesus, will be returning unexpectedly and the need for us, the stewards, to remain watchful for his return. As we look at this parable, we discuss some causes of comp...

Through this parable, Jesus reveals his identity and authority. The parable centres on a vineyard owner who sends messengers, including his son, to the tenants, symbolising God's relationship with Israel. Jesus emphasises his authority as the cornerstone, challenging us to understand his humble yet key role. As we explore this parable's message, we're prompted to examine our own sources of authori...

Many people have heard the phrase "Cleanliness is next to godliness," but is it? In this parable Jesus teaches us what makes us clean and unclean and how we can come to The Father with every confidence that we are accepted.

The growth of God’s Kingdom doesn’t always happen in the way we expect; our hopes and experiences can often be misaligned. Using 2 very short parables at the end of Mark 4 we look at 4 principles about the way that God’s Kingdom grows, and how we can be a part of it.

Many of us have heard the phrase ‘A house divided cannot stand’ – but what did Jesus mean by it? What has it got to do with the ‘blasphemy against the Holy Spirit’? And why does Jesus describe himself as binding a strong man and plundering his house?

Today we start our series on the parables in Marks gospel. We begin with the well-known Parable of the Sower. This parable encourages us to sow the good news generously as the farmer does but it also shines a light on the things that can crowd out the word of God from our hearts, particularly worries, wealth and wants. Do we have ears to hear and hearts that receive and live out the word?

We finish our Steadfast Love series by looking at the scandal of forgiveness in the story of Jonah. The most offensive thing about the gospel is not who gets excluded; it’s who gets included.

Over the last two weeks, we witnessed Jonah's hesitation and reluctance to fulfill God's call to go. This week, we will explore the lessons we can learn from Jonah's journey, applying them to our own experiences of stepping out in obedience on our journey of going.

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How do we deal with the ups and downs of life? How do we respond? A look at the life of Jonah, especially his time in the belly of the fish, gives us a real insight to these questions as we process the highs and lows.

Jonah is a very familiar book that is often simplified as a moral or miracle tale but there’s much more going on in this short book. In Chapter 1 there are a number of surprises including Jonah saying no to God asking him to go to his enemies and the pagan sailors responding to the God of Israel. Only Jesus the one greater than Jonah can perfectly fulfil Gods mission however he entrusts that missi...

Repentance is not just concerned with taking away bad things, but with giving us good things. In the final section of Hosea, Andrew shows us what positive repentance looks like.

God’s relationship with Israel is not just that of a faithful husband to an immoral wife, but that of a lovestruck and affectionate Father to a wayward child. Hosea’s generation needed to know the Father’s steadfast love for them—and so do we.

This week we will be looking at "The Need for Justice," These passages in Hosea describe Israel as an unjust nation, and helps us see the importance of understanding biblical justice. Biblical justice, rooted in God's character, and is characterised by generosity, equality, and advocacy for the poor and marginalized. Hosea challenges us to examine our pursuit of affluence and the potential neglect...

Once again we see in Hosea 8&9 that Isreal have been a people unfaithful to God and have broken their convent with him. As a result they receive God’s judgement. How do we respond to passages like this in scripture? How should we view them in light of Jesus? We will explore that together.

We all know the difference between a genuine relationship and a superficial one. God loves his people and desires to have a genuine relationship with them, so in this sermon, looking at Hosea 6, we explore what a genuine relationship with God looks like and how we can have that type of relationship with Him.

What happens when people turn from God to worship idols instead? Hosea 4 and 5 serve as an insight as well as a warning to some of the ramifications of being unfaithful to God. We see it results in a leadership crisis as well as divine judgement.

Hosea 2 might seem offensive to many of us, and partly that is because the gospel itself is offensive. Many of us are troubled by the description of sin, the reality of judgment and the one-sidedness of grace.