Paul's Podcast

The Holy Spirit is busy. Busy convicting, indwelling, baptizing, regenerating, adopting & sealing... but what does this mean for us? Pastor Brian Clark concludes our mini-series on The Holy Spirit According to the Bible with a focus on what God's word says about getting 'baptised in the Spirit'. What is it? How do I get it? How will I know? Find out more about us here - crossroa...

Pastor Brian Clark has spent the previous two weeks showing us from the bible what being filled with the Spirit isn't. This week we focus on the positive: what being filled with the Spirit is. What is it? How do we get it? How will we know? Find out more about us here - crossroadslondon.org

What does 1 Corinthians 14 say? This is such an important question as it is the chapter, outside of Acts 2, which provides the most information and instruction on the Spiritual Gift of Tongues (or as we prefer to call it, The Spiritual Gift of Languages). Pastor Brian Clark takes us step by step through the chapter, leaving no doubt as to what the apostle Paul meant by it. Find out more about us h...

False doctrine on the gift of tongues leads to unbiblical spirituality, confusion, disillusionment, defeat & bad fruit.  Yet this false doctrine is widespread. Guest to the podcast, Pastor Brian Clark, teaches us the biblical view of this gift, as he kicks off our short series on 'The Spirit of Truth: the Holy Spirit According to the Bible.' Find out more about us here - crossroadslo...

Chapter 4 of Ruth is wonderful, isn't it? The joy of marriage, the excitement of the new birth, the hope in the future... Chapter 1 is not wonderful. Instead of fruit, it is characterised by famine. Not joy but frustration, not life but death, not hope but despair... It is a tragedy that the typical Christian life today looks more like chapter 1 than it does chapter 4. In our series conclusio...

Most often, when we think about living a fruitful life for God, we think 'fruit is either produced or it is not'. This is biblical to an extent. But, if you look a little deeper, we see that the bible teaches we are actually always producing fruit. Stuff is always coming out of our lives… So the real question is not 'Am I producing fruit or not?', but rather 'What kind of...

There are some people we don't want to get up close & personal with. (Ever been on the London Underground is rush hour?) But there are, on the other hand, many people we should have close, personal relationships with.  Our Heavenly Father is at the top of that list. Ruth chapter 3 gives us three keys to having an intimate relationship with him. These keys cut right through the obstacles t...

“You get out what you put in” - a familiar saying that suggests the amount of effort we put in to something is equal to the amount of reward we get out of it. Everybody says it, and to a certain extent, it's true. When it comes to the church's calling to be a virtuous bride though, it is only 50% true. It is half the story.  In the first half of this week's lesson, we see the work R...

Ruth is a virtuous bride. Naomi knows it. Boaz knows it. It seems that all of Bethlehem knows it... but what, exactly, is it that makes her so? After studying the pictures in Ruth, we now turn our attention to the principles. What can we (the gentile bride of Christ) learn from Ruth (the gentile bride of Boaz)? This first principle reveals her remarkable stedfast mind. Naomi gives 3 factual, logic...

"Your story, sir, would cure deafness!" (from Shakespeare's The Tempest). Well, the story of personal salvation through Jesus Christ cures a lot more than that. It is a story that we see pictured wonderfully in Ruth, and one that needs repeating - both to believers and by them. Find out more about us here - crossroadslondon.org

What do we do with Israel? How should we feel about this supposed chosen people, who seem so stubborn when it comes to God? And why should we care anyway? The book of Ruth provides a clear doctrinal picture for us about the nation of Israel. This is a topic frequently misunderstood by theologians, often leading to confusion amongst regular believers like us... Thankfully, tracing this picture thro...

If we scratch a little under the surface of the book of Ruth, we will find some wonderful pictures.  This week there is a picture so beautiful and brilliant it will blow our socks off... but at the time, it was missed. This picture was not seen until years after the book was first read. That is because it is a picture of the church - let's make sure we don't miss it! Find out more about...

Ruth is a little book with a lot to say.  In this introductory message, Paul explains how it is not just a wonderful love story between two godly people, but, if we scratch a little beneath the surface, we will discover a number of fascinating doctrinal pictures in there too. How do we exhaust a book as full of wisdom as this one? What lessons might the church learn from Ruth herself? And what has...