After spending a few weeks on thinking about who God is, Steve begins to dig into what this means for us.  In the Old Testament “LORD” is often capitalized to signal the translation from Yahweh. But there’s more.

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This week Steve looks at how people’s perceptions of God have been responsible for tremendous positivity but also tremendous damage throughout history, and today.

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After explaining why God is not angry last week, Steve dives even deeper into what it means for us that God doesn’t just love, but that God is love.

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This week, Steve looks at why so many have come to believe God is a vengeful wrath-filled judge, and where we, as Christians, got off on the wrong foot thinking this way.

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Steve begins this week’s Chalke Talk by reflecting on some of the questions he has been asked, following the previous video in which he suggested that Heaven is likely to be filled with far more than just Christians.

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Life in our globalised, multi-faith, multi-cultural, world highlights some big questions, ones which have always been there for the Church, but which have often been ignored, says Steve in this week’s Chalke Talk.

“The first readers of the Gospels would have thought its content scandalous,” argues Steve in this week’s Chalke Talk.  While some of the significance can be lost to us, the pages of the four books that recount the life of Jesus are full of him pushing the boundaries of social acceptability by reaching out to people that the ‘Holy’ considered outcast.

The Ethiopian Eunuch of Acts, chapter 8, verse 26-38 is someone who should never have been welcomed into the fold.  He was Ethiopian, while God’s love was for Jews.  And Scripture had totally forbidden the participation of a Eunuch – or someone with ‘crushed sexual organs’ – in worship.

In this week’s Chalke Talk, Steve explores how inclusion is a fundamental theme in the Old Testament.

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In this week’s Chalke Talk Steve responds to criticism that in his previous video, he oversimplified the message of Jesus.  While Steve had claimed that the message of the Gospel is simply one of love, others have pointed out that Jesus was – on occasions – a man of anger.