Sermon Seasonings

Join Seb and Mandy as we interact over Mark 9:14-50.  We respond to a listener question about evil spirits, examine the predictions of Jesus' death and think through the confronting reality of hell.

Join Mandy and Seb as we return to the podcast and reflect on Mark 9:1-13. We discuss in detail Bible Reading Plans. Brian Rosner's article McCheyne Plan She Reads Truth website He Reads Truth website   7 Genres reading Plan Dwell Bible Reading App Bible Project Book Overviews Bible Reading Chart

Join Dave and Mandy as the discuss Genesis 22 and reflect upon Abraham's test and the way that the Lord sees and provides.

Join Dave and Mandy as we examine Genesis 18-19 and consider Lot's descendants, and reflect upon his righteousness, and ours.

Join Dave and Mandy as we dig into Genesis 16 and consider what we learn of God's character - in particular his compassion on the oppressed.

Join Dave and Mandy as we dig into Genesis 13 and 14, taking a deep dive into those passages that we skimmed over on Sunday. The Patriarchal Age: Myth or History? by Kenneth A Kitchen https://www.baslibrary.org/biblical-archaeology-review/21/2/3

Dave and Mandy are back as we begin our Genesis 12-25 series: Abraham, the Father of Faith.  We discuss the toledot of Terah, check in on how we're going with Seb's Genesis 12:1-3 challenge and consider Abram's journey to Caanan, before zooming in on Genesis 12:10-20 and Abram's sojourn in Egypt.

Join Dave and Mandy for the final podcast in the Ephesians series as we tackle the very end of Ephesians 6, think about the Armour of God, some Old Testament background and allusions and then reflect on the way Chapter 6 is a fitting end to the cosmic scale of the book of Ephesians.

Join Dave and Mandy as we look at Ephesians 4:17-5:14 and think about the inner and outer life, the old man and the new man and corporate ethics as we consider how to walk in love.

Andrew and Mandy reflect this week on unity vs loyalty, apostles and prophets and caring for one another in light of Ephesians 4.

Join Dave and Mandy for a COVID special, thinking through how knowing that we are in Christ impacts how we approach live during COVID.  We tackle this by answering three key questions: 1. What big truths can we hold on to? 2. What faith challenges should we watch out for? 3. What opportunities does this forced lockdown provide for us actually to flourish?

Join Andrew, Dave and Mandy as we dig into Ephesians 2:1-10 and think about the amazing move from being dead in our transgressions and sins to being made alive in Christ, all through God's amazing grace.

Join Dave and Mandy as we look at the way that Paul prays throughout his letters as a model for our prayers, before Dave shares 7 tips to improve our own prayer life. Books we mention: Praying with Paul: A Call to Spiritual Reformation, Don Carson, A Praying Life: Paul E Miller, The Art of Prayer, Timothy Jones and Our Father, Richard Coekin.

Join Dave and Mandy as we look at the importance of introductions, some key elements of the eulogy in v3-14 and finally share some reflections on how the beginning sets us up for the rest of the letter.

Join Dave and Mandy as we reach the end of our series in Jeremiah.  We take a deep dive into Lamentations - a poetic response to the events described in Jeremiah, and then take a look back at the structure of the book and what we have learned as we studied the hard word.

Join Mandy and Andrew as we take a deep dive into Jeremiah 34-44 and think through the importance of hearing God's word, understand more of the process a preacher goes through in understanding a passage and working out how to preach it, and tackle some questions from Sunday. Stay tuned right to the end for a special something.

Join Mandy and Dave as we think more about prophecy: how it is conveyed and fulfilled.  We also think through the theological significance of Jerusalem, explore some wonderful promises that point us to Christ and consider another lens through which we can view Jeremiah 30-34: the lens of grace.

Join Dave and guest host Andrew Levy as we explore further into Jeremiah chapters 25-29.  Dave and Andrew ask the question 'which exile are we talking about?' as we look at Judah's complex history of multiple sieges and deportations to Babylon, they then talk about what makes the prophetic showdown between Jeremiah and Hananiah so climactic before thinking through the nature of true and false...

Join Dave and Mandy for a special edition on speaking the hard word in love, inspired by Jeremiah. We think practically about what it looks like to be courageous and speak the hard word, and how to listen to it.

Join Dave and Mandy on Sermon Seasonings first birthday as we did into Jeremiah 7 and think a bit more about the relationship between Jeremiah 7 and 26, the pathos of the judgement poetry and reflect on the relationship between continuing to sin and presuming on grace.

Welcome back for Season 5 of Sermon Seasonings where Dave and Mandy are joined by Paul Hallam, who works with us a few days a week helping Dave in the Maturity space, and also doing all our graphic design.  We dive deep into Jeremiah 1 and consider the Structure, Historal Period and then a comparison with Jeremiah and Moses.  

While Mandy has a well earned week off, in our final podcast of Season 4 Dave talks with Andrew Levy about the powerful message behind an unusual miracle as Jesus chooses to heal a blind man in two stages.  We also talk through what it means to declare that Jesus is the Messiah before finishing by reflecting on what it means to take up our cross and follow him.

Join Dave and Mandy as we explore Mark 7:1-8:21 and consider the remarkable cleansing that Jesus offers.  In today's podcast we consider Mark's gentile audience and have a look directly at some excerpts from the Mishnah to better understand the pharisees, before returning to the structural question raised last week.  In the final section, we look in more detail at the Syrophonecian woman...

Join Dave and Mandy as we dig in to Mark 6:30-56 and look at the way the feeding of the 5,000, Jesus walking on water and healing many.  We explore many of the Old Testament allusion and see how they fill out Jesus identity.  His is God, but he's not just a powerful divinity, he is the redeemer and saviour of his people.

Join Dave, Mandy and Mike as we explore Mark 6:1-30 and think about the reasons for Christian faith and the reasonableness of belief.   Some books to think about: The Case for Christ - Lee Strobel Who Moved the Stone - Frank Morrison The Reason for Faith - Tim Keller A Spectators Guide to World Religions - John Dickson