St Mary Magdalene, Torquay

What does it mean to be on team Jesus? How can we be better at it? Joe discusses two of the people mentioned in Colossians and how they were on the team in the early church.

There are two doors that are the secret to living a full life in faith. Trevor talks about the dangers of opening one door without taking into account the other.

Mark helps to put a different perspective on the elements of this passage that we find difficult.

We collect labels on our way through life. They identify us. Some are not true and make us feel worthless. Jesus has a new message for us about our labels.

In this all age talk, Mark and Rob use a sponge and some water to describe how we are filled to overflowing when we start to have a relationship with Jesus.

Paul had a mission. His mission was to tell everybody about Jesus and to prepare people in the early church for their own works in telling people about Jesus.

The word was with God and the word was God and He moved into the neighbourhood. There is no other way to see it but Jesus is God. With this dynamite knowledge, putting Jesus before all things is the best way to go.

Jason describes what it means for him when he is strong in Jesus.

Rob talks about a friend who was kind, caring and compassionate despite having a very difficult life and describes how we can be more like Jesus in our everyday lives.

Reading Colossians gives us the knowledge and wisdom to have a full life in Jesus. Trevor discusses how we do that.

In the first of a season of talks focusing on Colossians Mark talks about some changes in church and also how we can grow in Jesus. We can do this by being willing to have our eyes open and to fix them on Him.

We can have hope in the chaos because our hope, our surety is Jesus. When He is our focus all else can be overcome.

What's it like to live as a Christian? Edwina describes what heaven might be like and how we can maintain hope even when life is difficult.

Joe talks about how we can be filled to overflowing with joy, peace, and hope.

What do we need to fill up our hope tank?

Mark, with the help of the children, builds a hope tank and describes the different components that go to make it.

Trevor talks to Joanne Colbourne and gives a visual description of what how being filled with hope works.

Nathan uses the story of David and Goliath in this interactive talk to help us to press in with God when things seem hopeless.

"Our hope is not as the world hopes, but it really is amazing." Our hope comes from Jesus. We are made new in Him and He is with us through all of life's challenges.

In the first of a summer talks on hope, Joe discusses how God's hope in us can in turn mean that when we turn to Him and put our trust in him, He gives us a hope that can't be dashed when things go wrong or in times of uncertainty.