City on the Hill - Running after Jesus: Recent Episodes
Will Crawford
Have you ever heard certain concepts and teachings discussed in great depth, but not really understanding why it's important? That why is one of the key questions of this podcast. Through Biblical stories and the beauty found in the Bible, we explore important themes and narratives, looking at what they are, why we should care and how we can apply them in our everyday lives. I pray that this podcast will equip and empower you to go out and serve God's kingdom to the best of your ability. Enjoy! All our music comes from silvermansound.com
Hello everyone, my name's Will and I'd like to welcome you back to the City on the Hill podcast. This show explores important Biblical themes and narratives and looks to apply the teachings of the Bible to our everyday lives. In today’s episode, we are looking at worship. Worship forms a central part of just about every Sunday service in the world, and for good reason. Today, we’re going to look at why we worship, the focus of our worship and the forms worship takes. So, without further ado, let’s get into this.
Hello everyone and welcome back to the City on the Hill podcast. I’d like to wish you all a very happy Easter celebrating the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Today’s episode will be slightly different to normal. Most of you have probably had an excellent Easter sermon today that I won’t be able to match and as such this will just be a short story and not a deep theological discussion on the meaning of Easter!
Hello everyone, my name's Will and I'd like to welcome you back to the City on the Hill podcast. This show explores important Biblical themes and narratives and looks to apply the teachings of the Bible to our everyday lives. Today, we’re looking at an often-forgotten spiritual discipline; fasting. Fasting is something we see throughout the Bible, from Exodus all the way through to Paul’s epistles, and can form a very powerful part of our prayer lives and walk in faith. Today we’ll look at why and how we should be fasting, and the effects it can have on our relationship with God. This episode is going to be on the long side, but I’m excited for it and I hope you are too, so let’s get into this!
Evangelism can be scary. I get it! But it's also something Jesus commanded us as Christians to do and is an incredibly enriching and important thing to do. In this episode, we'll look at how we can overcome our fear of evangelism and find a desire to reach out to others through looking at why evangelism is important
This is the final episode in our 3 part series looking at God's calling. Today, we look at applying what we've learnt over the last two weeks to live life according to God's calling, out of faith, hope and love. Also, I do apologise for the sound quality, I'd lost my voice at the time of recording this, hence why things sound a bit different!
In this, the second in a three part series on the calling God has on each of our lives, we look at discovering that calling and how we uncover our role in the kingdom of God. Last week we learnt about why our calling is so important, this week we're looking at how we discover it. It goes without saying that this is a massive topic; the process of discovering our calling never really ends. As such, I hope that this episode just gives you a starting point to finding that calling and purpose, helping you to walk through this process with God. Enjoy!
This is the first talk of a 3 part series discussing the calling that God has for every single one of us. This is a fundamentally important topic, one that helps us find meaning and purpose far deeper and more fulfilling than anything the world can offer. I hope you enjoy!
A short poem for Christmas Eve. I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year, thank you for all your support over the last few months, this is hopefully just the beginning!
Today we're taking another look at the story of Zaccheus, focussing in this time on Jesus' actions and the reactions of the crowds and his followers. We're answering the question of why was this so controversial and seeing what we can learn from Jesus' example
Why we need Christ in our decision making and how we bring Him in. This is a subject that's very close to my heart and is a crucial one for both our everyday walks as Christians and also the big decisions that each of us are faced with. God has to be front and central in these decisions, so lets take a look at why and how to bring Him in
Hey everyone, just wanted to take 15 minutes to explain why and how I take time most days to sit down and just be with God. It really is vital to our everyday faith and a really good habit to get into so I just thought I'd take the time to explain what it looks like for me!
After a brief hiatus, we're back! Today we're looking at one of my favourite chapters, Romans 5, so without further ado, let's grab our bibles and get stuck in!
This week we're taking a look at the nurturing nature of God and how he develops us in love
Join me today as we continue our series on Romans with Romans chapter 4. Let's grab our Bibles and get into it!
Join me today as we look at the importance of our covenant relationship with God, enabled through His Son Jesus Christ
Join me for this second chapter of Romans as we go through verse by verse. Let's get our bibles out and dive into God's word together!
In this episode, we look at how Zaccheus can be a real role model for us in seeking God. Open your Bibles to Luke 19 and let's dive in to God's word together!
Join me today as we explore the names of Christ in one of my favourite passages of scripture; Isaiah chapter 9. To me, this passage sums up the gospel, 700 years before it was written, so this is really a good one!
Today we look at Romans chapter 1, reading through the chapter and then looking at it verse by verse. Join me for the start of this series as we work our way through the book, with a chapter every Wednesday.
So often we can encounter negative outlooks, which can often be really damaging. How should we as Christians approach this, particularly as it's so common?
I first preached this message at River Church St Neots the day before covid restrictions were lifted. It is a message on the importance of fellowship to us as Christians and how we can use our God given gifts to build those fellowships and the people in them