In this passage we see that God's patience will not continue for ever - what happened with Belshazzar shows that there is a day of judgement which will come. How should we live in the light of that truth? 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://instagram.com...
Nov 10, 2021•19 min
Church is not about individuals having a private spiritual experience - it's something much more important than that. But what does that mean for how we do church? 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://instagram.com/bible.understand 💵 BECOME A PATRON If y...
Oct 31, 2021•17 min
“Pride comes before a fall”. In this sermon we see the truth of that statement – that God is able to humble those who walk in pride. But what is pride, and what does that mean about how we should live? 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://instagram.com/bi...
Oct 27, 2021•21 min
It's difficult to give people hard truth, especially if it's bad news about themselves. So how do we give people the 'bad news' about the gospel? Let's learn from Daniel. 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://instagram.com/bible.understand 💵 BECOME A PATR...
Oct 20, 2021•21 min
Sometimes people wonder whether God gets involved at all with the kingdoms of the world. In this chapter of Daniel we see how God is truly sovereign over all. 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://instagram.com/bible.understand 💵 BECOME A PATRON If you ap...
Oct 13, 2021•19 min
In Daniel chapter 3, we see how empires and kingdoms behave, and how Daniel's friends managed to resist them. 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://instagram.com/bible.understand 💵 BECOME A PATRON If you appreciate Understand the Bible, would you consider...
Sep 29, 2021•22 min
All through history empires have come and gone. Daniel teaches us that empires will come and go, and there is only one empire which will never perish. In this sermon we think about how to live in light of that truth. 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://i...
Sep 22, 2021•20 min
How do we survive and even thrive as Christians in a hostile, secular, religiously plural culture? Let's learn from the book of Daniel. 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://instagram.com/bible.understand 💵 BECOME A PATRON If you appreciate Understand the...
Sep 15, 2021•17 min
In the Western world it’s getting harder to be a Christian. We can no longer see the UK as a Christian country. So how do we live in that situation? The book of Daniel helps us to know how to live. 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://instagram.com/bible....
Sep 08, 2021•20 min
Why would anyone bother to be a Christian? Because there is a truth and a power about the Christian life, and the Holy Spirit, which is not found anywhere else. But how do we put that in to practice? 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://instagram.com/bibl...
Aug 29, 2021•25 min
Why is it that keeping the rules doesn't work? In this final part of Galatians we think about why it's important to look to God's new creation rather than the law. 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://instagram.com/bible.understand 💵 BECOME A PATRON If y...
Jul 28, 2021•16 min
How should the grace of God make a difference to our community? In this sermon we explore how God wants us to be with each other as a result of his grace. 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://instagram.com/bible.understand 💵 BECOME A PATRON If you apprec...
Jul 21, 2021•16 min
If God forgives us anyway, why should we do good? If we have freedom, how should we use it? In this passage we see how freedom in Christ gives us a new motivation and a new power to obey. 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://instagram.com/bible.understand...
Jul 14, 2021•20 min
A lot of people today are fascinated by the supernatural: psychic mediums, palm readings, spiritualism... what should Christians make of it? Is it harmless fun, is there something deeper going on? Read the passage online . 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - htt...
Jul 11, 2021•20 min
If you had to choose one word to sum up the Christian life, what would it be? In this passage, Paul sums it up with the word "freedom". But what does that really mean? What are we free from? 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://instagram.com/bible.underst...
Jun 30, 2021•19 min
All the way through Galatians we have seen the difference between the true gospel and the false gospel. Here Paul uses the illustration of Hagar and Sarah to compare and contrast the two "gospels" - only one of them is true, and yet we often find ourselves on the wrong side! 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - ...
Jun 23, 2021•15 min
We treat children differently to adults. Children need things which adults don’t once they’ve grown to maturity. In this passage, Paul says that the Law was there as our guardian until the coming of Christ Jesus. 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://insta...
Jun 16, 2021•18 min
We treat children differently to adults. Children need things which adults don't once they've grown to maturity. In this passage, Paul says that the Law was there as our guardian until the coming of Christ Jesus. 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://insta...
Jun 09, 2021•17 min
If we're not saved by keeping the Law, why did God give us the Law in the first place? In this part of Galatians, Paul explains why the Law is in the Bible. 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://instagram.com/bible.understand 💵 BECOME A PATREON If you app...
May 26, 2021•16 min
What is the Christian life all about? Is it just about keeping the rules? Or do we live as if it was? In this passage from Galatians we see how it's either grace OR law - they are mutually exclusive. 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Instagram - https://instagram.com/bibl...
May 19, 2021•18 min
Cancel culture 'cancels' people because they have the wrong opinions on certain issues. But the gospel of grace is very different - Paul says that grace is the antithesis of cancel culture. 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Podcast - https://anchor.fm/understand-the-bible...
May 12, 2021•19 min
We are living in a society and church which feels very divided. How can we unite in the midst of all the division going on? What is the basis for true unity? Galatians 2:1-10 has the answer. 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Podcast - https://anchor.fm/understand-the-bibl...
Apr 28, 2021•17 min
Who should we put our trust in - especially when it comes to people who teach the Bible? In this opening section of Galatians, Paul commends himself as one who can be trusted, and teaches us what it means to trust as well. 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Podcast - https...
Apr 21, 2021•14 min
"We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace" (Martin Luther). You might have heard of grace - but do you really know what it is? And do you live it out? Galatians teaches that grace is essential to the gospel and to Christian living. In this first passage we start thinking about why it's so important. 👉 Don't forget to subscribe! 👈 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://unde...
Apr 14, 2021•16 min
We celebrate Easter once a year, but it should make a difference to our lives the whole year round. In this sermon we think about how Easter, and especially the resurrection, makes a difference to us all the time. You might like to have the passage in front of you as you listen – find it online here . 👉 Don't forget to subscribe! 👈 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • F...
Apr 07, 2021•13 min
People sometimes talk about destiny or fate - but what does it mean? Jesus was destined to die on the cross - but that's good news for us. And we, too, can share in his destiny. 👉 Don't forget to subscribe! 👈 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Podcast - https://anchor.fm...
Mar 31, 2021•16 min
Who's really in charge of the world? In this session we look at something called God's providence, which means not only that God is in charge but that he's a good ruler - the ruler we really need. You can see the whole Catechism online here . 👉 Don't forget to subscribe! 👈 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - ...
Mar 25, 2021•9 min
When we think about the cross, we often think about it in individual terms: "God forgives my sin". But the cross has important implications for how we relate to others as well. 👉 Don't forget to subscribe! 👈 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Podcast - https://anchor.fm/...
Mar 24, 2021•14 min
One of the most basic questions of all we can ask is, what does it mean to be human? This is often explored in Sci-Fi stories such as Blade Runner. In this session we see what the Bible says about human beings with the help of the Westminster Shorter Catechism. You can see the whole Catechism online here . 🖥️ LINKS MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO No links but if you'd like a short book dealing with transgender issues, Vaughan Roberts little book is worth reading: https://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/transgende...
Mar 18, 2021•10 min
Who has true authority and power in the world? And who has true authority and power over us? This passage from John's gospel challenges us to put our trust where true power can be found. 👉 Don't forget to subscribe! 👈 🖱️ WEBSITE Understand the Bible - teaching the Christian faith online. Lots more on the website, including free courses: https://understandthebible.uk 💻 LINKS • Facebook - https://facebook.com/bible.understand • Twitter - https://twitter.com/UnderstandTheB1 • Podcast - https://...
Mar 17, 2021•16 min
