Tuesday 15 January 2019

The Son of Man

Our new series 'Questions from the Gospels' is starting with two weeks looking at questions related to Jesus' identity. Last Sunday we looked at Matthew 16:13-20 and Jesus' question to his disciples, 'who do you say I am?'

Before asking the disciples this question he asked them, 'who do poeple say the Son of Man is?'

Following Jesus' second question, Peter answered that Jesus was 'the Messiah, the Son of the living God'. From Jesus' response this is clearly the 'right' answer - but Jesus then orders the disciples not to tell anyone that he is the Messiah.

When you read the rest of the New Testament Jesus is consistently referred to as the Messiah (Hebrew) or Christ (Greek) - both words mean 'the anointed one'. And yet this is something he hardly ever calls himself. His favourite title for himself is 'Son of Man'. But what does this mean?

If you want to explore this theme further The Bible Project team have started a new Podcast Series on the Son of Man. The first episode became available today. This series of podcasts are the basis on which their Son of Man video is based.

You'll find the podcast here.


Monday 14 January 2019

Who do you say I am?

This Sunday we started a new Sunday morning series, 'Questions from the gospels' - looking at questions that Jesus was asked and questions that Jesus asked.


We started by looking at Jesus' question to his disciples, 'who do you say that I am?'

To listen to the talk click here

There were a number of video resources that we used and you'll find the links below.

The first is a video from Igniter Media called 'A million little choices'. You'll find that video here.

This video comes at 1.58 in the audio recording of the talk.

The second video is from The Bible Project and is an extract from their video on the second part of Matthew's gospel. This video came at 13.20 into our talk and we watched the first 3 minutes and 3 seconds - but you can carry on and watch the whole thing if you like.



The final video comes at the end of the audio and is again from The Bible Project.