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The judgement of God is not an easy pill to swallow and seems unfair, even. But what if all the evil in the world remained unchecked and nothing was restored? For those who take refuge in the Lord, the judgement of God is good news, because he is restoring all things. Is it worth seeking refuge in him? Listen in as Andrew Norbury shows from Zephaniah 3 the benefits of trusting in the Lord.

Pete Greasley finishes our series from Luke 6 showing that the strength of the Christian life is not the strength of the house, but the strength of the rock beneath it - Jesus Christ

Having a health check for your heart can be scary. What if our hearts are doing worse than we hoped? The same is true of the spiritual condition of our hearts. Listen in as Simon takes us into Luke 6:43-45 where Jesus teaches us about the connection of our actions and our heart and we encounter God's promise to give us new hearts, and enable us to love him.

Everyone wants to be part of a community that doesn't keep tabs, doesn't write people off, and where your worst moment doesn't have to be your last. We all know we need that kind of place. The problem is we know from painful experience how rarely it exists. Luke 6: 36 - 42 is Jesus vision for a mercy-saturated community. Not as a nice ideal, but as a non-negotiable mark of his people. No caveats. No limits. No cultural permission to cancel when the hurt goes deep enough. Lewis Roderick preaches and shows us what mercy is, why it's so difficult and how we might live it out.

As Jesus continues to teach on the plain, he issues a radical call for his followers to love their enemies. As a skilled teacher, he begins to open up layer after layer of our hearts, exposing how selfish, self-protective and self-interested our love for others can be. But, in the process, he's also marvellously revealing just how outrageous is the gracious love of God for sinners!

Most of us have been quietly discipled by a world that tells us security is financial. Enough to get by. Enough for a rainy day. Enough to pass on. 'This is the blessed life' and this is the air we breathe. But in Luke 6, Jesus looks upon his disciples - those who have just walked away from businesses, livelihoods, and financial futures to follow him — and he calls them blessed. How can a life of willing poverty be to us the blessing of God? In this message Lewis Roderick take us to Luke 6: 20 -26 and we listen in to Jesus' words of blessing to the poor and woe to the rich.

Luke 6 gives us a glimpse of the Kingdom Jesus has come to bring. The God whose holiness made Sinai tremble comes down and stands among ordinary, broken, needy people—and instead of keeping his distance, he brings healing, freedom and life. In this message we hear Jesus' promise to everyone who comes to him with broken hearts and empty hands - the poverty, hunger, grief and pain we experience now will not be the final word. One day, his Kingdom will come in fulness and "all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well". Listen in as Lewis Roderick preaches Luke 6: 12 - 23.

Jesus spends the night praying before choosing the twelve apostles. He doesn't choose the impressive, the powerful or the finished. He chooses ordinary, flawed people whose future he already knows—including Judas. And before these men have any idea what lies ahead, Jesus is already bringing their names before his Father. The same Jesus who prayed for his disciples on the night before he called them now sits at the right hand of the Father and prays for his people. What would change if you really believed that, tonight, Jesus knows you completely, sees you completely, and is still praying for you? Listen in as Lewis Roderick begins our mini series through the sermon on the plain.

In this psalm of thanksgiving, David is overflowing with joy for God's saving and keeping grace. If you're in need of glorious gospel truth to strengthen your soul, look no further!

The fears of modern life and not knowing what is true, is nothing new. 3000 years ago David faced the same issues and found Hope in the abiding and truthful Word of God.

As Jerusalem was to the Psalmist, so is the Church to the Christian. Bob opens up this lovely psalm showing us why the believer can share the psalmist's delight and echo his words, "I was glad when they said to me, let us go to the house of the LORD"

Pete opens up his psalm to show us how in Christ, God hears the cry of His people when they turn to Him and rescues them from all their troubles.

Jesus is King and he will come to judge in rightoeusness and make all things well. While we wait, he sows seeds of light and joy in his people to harvest when he comes. Listen in as Simon takes us into Psalm 97 where he hear about God the majestic king and the reason the whole earth will rejoice when he comes.

Of all people, it's hard to imagine David, chosen & anointed by God as Israel's king in such despair that he feels like God has forgotten & forsaken him. Yet many believers down the ages have felt similarly, but within a few verses, David somehow ends in a very different place to where he began, marvelling at God's goodness to him - listen in to learn what changed in him.

In complex and messy circumstances in facing adversity, confusion and the weight of his own sin, David lifts his soul up to God to plead with him and remember who God is. Join in as we hear from Psalm 25 about how to throw ourselves onto God in difficult situations and what it means to wait on the Lord Jesus.