MBM Parramatta / Bible Talks

What's with all the names that appear in Romans 16? Paul paints a beautiful picture of diversity, unity and faithfulness for God's people.

There’s a right way and a wrong way to approach God. That’s why God instituted priests. Thanks to Jesus being our Great High Priest, we can approach God knowing for sure we are accepted by Him. 

Not only does our sin run deep, but our sin spreads wide. But thanks be to God who welcomes us with a love that goes above and beyond. A love that is so wide and long and high and deep in Jesus. 

Leviticus 1 teaches us to serve our Holy King with selfless acts of devotion, to follow the example of Christ in laying down our lives and giving ourselves to God in extravagant and even wasteful ways. The great confidence we have when we follow Christ is that our worship is made pleasing to God because of his blood shed on the cross.

We all crave community. But one of the remarkable things is that the church is a community created by God that we have the privilege of displaying in all it’s beauty.

We can see that God’s love for us is real through the sacrifice of his son Jesus, and the fact that he loved us even when we didn’t love him.

Jesus shows that he has abundant rest and blessings for those who seek him. And that by putting us through trials, he shows us his glory as God with us.

Being a Christian isn’t easy. Opposition comes our way. Not to mention the command to make disciples that tugs away at our guilt or lack of effectiveness. But at the end of the day, Jesus is worth it!!!

Jesus conquers what conquers us

Jesus continues to demonstrate his immense power. But this power isn’t used for his own personal good. Instead it’s an invitation to run to him who cares. 

Parables divide people into insiders and outsiders and It’s only those who come to Jesus, by hearing his word, who ultimately discover the secrets of God’s kingdom

To be in the family of God is to belong to Jesus, to believe in Jesus and to bow to the will of God.

We must never forget the fact that serving is our true and proper worship in response to God’s immense mercy.

The human heart loves to decide for itself rules and regulations that will help us feel good about ourselves. Jesus exposes this system of religion and says: “I’ve come not to reform religion but to end it by replacing it with myself!”

If you put aside Jesus' death and resurrection, this event, in the life of Jesus might the most impactful and significant. Here we see Jesus solve a problem no other person can fix.

After having heard the declaration of who Jesus is, the rest of Mark 1 fills out the demonstration of Jesus’ authority. It’s all in a day’s work for the Messiah, the Son of God.

It’s the most important question that will ever be asked of you, or that you could ask someone else. Mark wants you to know the answer to this question that he answers it in Chapter 1, sentence 1. 

Life so often seems so unfair because bad things happen to good people. Jesus flips that kinda thinking on it's head by offering three things in response. First, we're not as good as we think we are. Second, Jesus does good to bad people like us. And third, Jesus as the perfect person, endured the worst thing possible on our behalf.

What will happen to me when I die? In this story, Jesus confronts us with the reality that death brings immediate, irreversible, eternal comfort or agony.

My purpose in life is to love God and love others. I cannot do that unless I follow Jesus. Ultimate purpose requires a creator The creator has revealed our ultimate purpose Fulfilling our ultimate purpose requires a relationship with the creator

We’re all on the hunt for contentment. In Ecclesiastes 4-6 the Teacher presents life lived under three different masters but there’s only one master who provides everlasting contentment.

When God took on flesh on that very first Christmas, it marked a turning point in history. He came so that there would be a turning point in your life.

God’s heart for us is that we would live for him. That looks like honouring our church leaders, praying continually and listening to the Holy Spirit. But all of this is impossible unless God is the one who makes it happen.

Jesus’ return is the believer’s hope, that reaches into our present day, giving us direction and purpose. It simplifies out lives.