Can we change what we think as Christians?
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Who is president of the United States is a big deal, not just for Americans but for everyone. James and Wayne talk about how we should think about the election from a UK perspective, what difference Christian faith makes and how then we should pray for the new president.
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Wayne and James discuss recent decisions around the availability of life-extending drugs and how our reactions to those decisions expose what we think about life.
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Why your friends might think differently to you.
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In light of horrendous ways that death has visited our city recently, with fatal stabbings of teenage boys and the killing of three young children, James and Wayne discuss Christian beliefs about death and how to have difficult conversations.
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In the light of the horrific fatal stabbings of two teenagers in Bristol, Wayne and James examine the city where we live and question how well we might know the place we live.
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James and Wayne take you through what Bringing Bristol to Jesus, the new vision for 2024, means for the B&A church family.
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As B&A kicks off a series on its new vision for 2024, this week James and Wayne talk about how vision and values work in the church.
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Following Wayne Massey’s recent Mission to Uganda as part of SOMA UK, James and Wayne discuss what Wayne saw and experienced and reflect on the difference between a post Christian culture and one that is Christian or even pre Christian. How can we apply what we see God doing elsewhere to Bristol and the UK in 2023?
Uganda Mission in numbers; 10 days, average temperature 28 degrees centigrade, approx. 3,000 evangelists from the local church, Uganda, across Africa and Europe. 200 parishes. 80 open air crusades. 370,000 heard the good news of Jesus. 7,800 people gave their lives to Jesus.
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James in conversation with Ed Shaw, Pastor of Emmanuel City Centre Church, Bristol, about the recent voting by the Church of England to welcome the blessing of same sex marriages in dedicated church services. The amendment to the motion scraped through by one vote; the amended motion passed by 227 votes to 203.
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This week James is joined by Matt Southcombe from St Nick's, Bristol, to talk about how we live well as disciples in a world of non-stop media.
On Monday night, thousands of football fans stayed behind to cheer their team after a 4-1 defeat. Why?
This week Wendy and James talk about 'vision and values' and how they can make for flourishing or perishing.
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Following Matthew Perry’s death, James and Wendy talk about light and darkness, addiction and hope in Jesus. What affects who we are becoming as we journey through life and how to alter that trajectory.
This episode was recorded on Halloween, if you’re confused about how to respond to Halloween as a Christian, you may want to read this quick reflection from J John
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What happens when you lose the confidence and trust in others? Can you get it back? How can you begin to rebuild it?
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Following the shocking news from Israel and Gaza, James and Wayne talk about the conflict, the history of tension in the region and what it tells us about the human heart and our need for a home.
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James and Wayne discuss football, referee controversies and what sort of cultures create fear, shame and the need to hide failures.
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How to build a better world
It seems shots are being fired in the next general election. All political parties are trying out new policies and ideas in order to win your vote next year. But is this how we should build a better world? How does our culture do it? How should Christians do it?
MTV New series for Autumn 2023
Suffering: What to do about disasters
This week the news has been filled with human suffering on a mass scale; the death toll from floods in Derna stands at nearly 4000 and Morocco’s earthquake has so far claimed 3000 lives. How can we understand who God is and what He is like in a world where things go wrong?
Suffering is topical but it is a personal issue too because it can be a barrier to understanding who God is. What can we make of disasters like those in Libya and Morocco and how do we reconcile this with God.
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James and Wayne talk about a recent cricket controversy and why this is really about our hearts and not just what happened on a cricket pitch.
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