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How are we called to honour God with our sexuality? Paul teaches what this looks like within the situations of marriage, singleness, and mixed marriages.

The apostle Paul reminds a church split by public lawsuits and lax sexual standards that we our bodies don’t belong to us, they’re given us to glorify God.

How should a church respond to public immorality within the church community? Rather than excusing, denying or concealing, Paul commands corporate public excommunication for the good of church and wrongdoer.

Too often the church imitates our world’s celebrity-obsessed culture. The apostle Paul confronts this sternly, commanding Christians imitate his humble, servant-leadership, just as he imitates Christ.

The church in Corinth saw themselves as particularly filled with the Holy Spirit. Through Paul God warns their divisions and rivalry are very immature and worldly. They need to understand the church belongs to God: it is God who grows it, God who guards it and God who owns it. Note: sorry for the poor audio quality in the first 20 seconds, it improves afterwards.

We see the trinity in this passage as God the Father chose you, God the Son saved you and God the Holy Spirit reveals God to you.

Christians have an unwelcome but persistent tendency to divide into tribes, revering different spiritual heroes. The apostle Paul tackles this problem head on, appealing for unity in the church in which the only hero is Jesus, for people who are saved, not by human wisdom or charisma, but by the simple, humbling message of His cross.

As we conclude our holiday club looking at Jonah, we recap the story and remember that just like the Ninevites, we too need to repent and accept the offer of forgiveness.

Jesus and the writers of the New Testament quote the short song which is Psalm 110 more than almost any other passage. It speaks clearly of Jesus as King ruling at the right hand of God and as our eternal priest. And this calls us to respond by offering our lives freely to follow Jesus as our Lord and King.

Our lives can be full of the anxious toil that springs from self-reliance. This beautiful, brief psalm urges us to discover the rest of dependence on the LORD who loves us, and grants us the gift of sleep and of families.

In one of mankind’s most ancient songs Moses reminds us God is eternal, but our earthly lives are very brief. If we grasp this rightly we will learn wisdom and turn to God for love and joy and for significance in our lives’ work.

Jesus predicted that Judas would betray Him and that Peter would deny Him, so what can we learn from these two, and what happens when we let Jesus down.

In his famous act of washing his disciples’ feet Jesus reveals his magnificent humility, and not only sets us a supreme example to follow, but he embodies a profound teaching on how we he alone can free us completely from our sin.

If the evidence for Christianity is so strong, why don’t more people believe? John answers this by pointing to the stubbornness of our proud hearts, and also God’s sovereign choice in to whom he gives spiritual insight.

Jesus enters Jerusalem as a long-awaited King, but not as the King they’d expected. He comes in humility. He comes to die. And he teaches that though the gospel may be free, it is however very costly.