Bible Feed

How can we know Jesus?

Laurence welcomes a new guest, Jeremy Pearce, for this episode to talk about practical ways of getting to know Jesus. Using the apostle Paul's experience as a template they discuss how to see Jesus as a real person even though we only have written accounts in the Gospels to work with.  But, just as we change when we know and love someone really well, knowing Jesus should change us too. Enjoy this conversation on a deeply personal and profound aspect of being a Christian in the modern world.

The Book of Revelation - 4. Seals & Trumpets

Paul and Dan get back to looking at the book of Revelation.  This is the fourth in the series now and they dive into the 7 seals and the 7 trumpets to unpick the pattern and try to imagine what messages the early Christians would have taken from it.  They find that the way the sequences of images are communicated continue to confound the expectations of the hearer.  But as they unfold, two powerful lessons for Christians of any age emerge - listen in, see if you can hear what a 1st century Christian might have heard!  

The Jesus of history

We're always encouraging people to read their Bibles and we often suggest starting with the Gospels.  Josh and Paul discuss what you're likely to come across if you're a new reader of the Bible, coming to the Gospels for the first time. What's the historical basis behind it all? How do you deal with all the miracles?  They consider ways to think about both what Jesus said and what he did, and what to look out for as unique and special in Jesus that is 'proclaiming the kingdom of God'. They finish up by thinking about how faith might develop from reading the Gospels.

Where is hell?

Paul and Dan spend some time in this episode talking about hell. No doubt all sorts of terrifying images come to mind with that word!  By building it up gradually from the Biblical words Sheol, Hades and Gehenna they arrive at what seems to be a coherent picture. But it's also a hopeful picture which makes sense in the light of a moral God who has shown himself in the face of Jesus as full of grace and truth.  Listen in and tell us what you think!

Where is heaven?

This episode is something of a concept study - what or where is heaven?  From the musings of a small boy on a football pitch, through Genesis to Revelation with a couple of stops in between, Laurence and Paul explore what "heaven" meant to the Biblical writers.  The ideas that emerge seem much less about a physical location and much more about the presence of God and a relationship that ordinary people (on earth) can have with him through Jesus.  Enjoy listening, and we'd love you to get in touch to tell us how you'd explain the concept of heaven!