St John's Sunday Podcast: Recent Episodes
St John's West Wickham
Dan reflects on the aftermath of Christmas, and wonders what it was like for the Shepherds and wise men in the years that followed. Jon also gives us a some fantastic pointers on tips for Tier 4 living!
Part Four - Richard continues our look at the prophetic messages promising the Messiah and takes a close look at the Highway of Holiness.
Part Two - This week we take a closer look at the opening of Matthew's Gospel and also the familiar Isaiah 9 'Christmas' passage.
As we enter into a difficult winter, with a new lockdown, and all the uncertainty in the air we invite guest speaker Andy Parnham to help us consider our mental and emotional wellbeing from a Biblical perspective.
This week we mark Harvest and think about what it means to be generous. We also hear from Slavic in Dancu, Moldova where their harvest has failed and how we can be praying and helping financially.
Part 6 | Sally teaches from Philippians and Luke to show how the church is meant to be serving others.
Part 5 | Richard takes a helpful look through passages that can enable us to be a community of worship.
Part 4 - Jon takes a look at how the church is called to be renewed itself and a renewing force in the world.
Loving Church Part 3 - Amber explores the call to humble ourselves and pray as a community of Jesus followers.
Loving Church Part 2 - As we continue our series Dan looks at how the people of God have so often been in the position of exiles and what that means for us in today's shifting secular culture.
Loving Church #1 - Jon begins our new teaching series where we look to the Bible to help shape our view on what the Church is and what the Church should be.
Continuing our summer series of conversations with church members, we hear from Richard C who has been in the deep end of legislation during the coronavirus.
Nana K joins Amber and Dan to discuss lockdown life, faith, and the joys and struggles of both.
Agata from our church family talks with Jon and Amber about the last few months, her passion for justice, and her walk of faith through the challenges of disability.
This summer we are interviewing a number of folks from our church family and this week we are delighted to bring you the first conversation with Milly Johnson who shares about her involvement and heart for mission as well as what faith has been like throughout lockdown.
Richard explores the story of Job as an example of how we practically answer the call of justice in the details of our everyday lives.
Charlotte helps us consider how an experience of God's grace drives our passion for Justice, rather than the levers of guilt, or simple ethical obligation.
Part 2 of our series on 'Justice' and Nick looks at how Jesus shows preference for the vulnerable and poor.
Part 1 - A new series on Justice and Jon takes us on an opening survey of what it means to 'do justice' according to the Bible.
Dan takes a look at Amos 5:21-24 and explores the way righteousness and justice are the foundations of God's Kingdom.
Jon looks at the third of the Christian virtues... LOVE. Looking at the famous verses in First Corinthians, often used as a wedding reading, and how they are relevant in our everyday lives.
Richard looks at the second Christian virtue... FAITH. And unpacks what it means to us at this moment in time.
As we continue through this challenging season Jon gives a wonderful reminder of the nature of Christian hope.
Amber talks about the power of simply spending time with God and the refreshing, life giving power of silence and solitude with the Father.
Sally helps cast our minds to our brothers and sisters in Christ who in suffering, particularly at this time
Dan looks at Romans 5:3-5 (MSG) to share thoughts about what God can do in the current situtation where we are "hemmed in by troubles".
Nick Lang draws on aspects of the disciples own lockdown experience to help us at this time.
Breaking from our current series Dan turns to Philippians 4 and speaks into the current Coronavirus situation.
Part 3 of God's Pursuit of Us - Jon guides us through a look at the nature of God's justice and judgement. And why those two elements of His character are good news to us.
Part 2 looking at God's Pursuit of Us. Jon unpacks what the religious pursuit looks like.
Part 1 - We begin a new series in the build up to Easter by flipping the narrative of our previous series 'The Pursuit of God' by exploring 'God's Pursuit of Us' and how this only comes due to the fact that God sent His own Son Jesus into the world to love us, to seek us out and to save us from sin. SAlly begins the series with a look at Friendship.
Part 6 concludes our series on The Pursuit of God and Richard looks at the role of accountability, community and encouragement to pursue God together.
Part 5 of our Pursuit of God series Jon looks at moving in step with God and living life at his speed.
Part 4 - Amber looks at what generosity in our 'Pursuit of God' looks like and how we should cling to eternal life instead of the temporary and material things of this world.
Part 3 - Geoff shares thoughts on how putting prayer first plays a key role in our pursuit of God.
NB The first few minutes of this recording were missed - we do apologise for this.
Part 2 of our series looking at The Pursuit of God. Daniel Leeves looks at Psalm 63 sharing how our desires can be divided and encouraging us to seek God with our whole hearts.
Jon introduces a new series looking at the pursuit of God. He shares open and honest reflections on our own pursuit, Psalm 27 and the Hebrides Revival.