Unexpected answers to life’s big questions For over 2000 years people in every generation, from every culture and every background have come to discover in Jesus what it means to live ‘life to the full’. The gospel accounts that tell of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection, have helped people discover answers to life’s big questions […]
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The kingdom of heaven (parables in Matthew)
The kingdom of heaven – what is it? A spiritual disembodied place where we sit on clouds (in our non-physical bodies!), playing harps to Jesus? Is it a time at the end of history when Jesus comes to gather, to judge and to rule the world? If so, how it is ‘near’ or ‘at hand’? […]
The Sermon on the Mount
Jesus was the greatest moral teacher that ever lived and the ‘Sermon on the Mount’ was his most famous sermon. Many of the phrases used are still used 2000 years later –‘turn the other cheek’, ‘do not judge’, ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you’. Initially Jesus came proclaiming the kingdom […]