These talks were first given at CORNERSTONE 2010 (The All Souls Church, Langham Place Week Away) held in Bath in August 2010. These talks sought to give a sense of the whole of John's gospel by taking his Prologue (John 1:1-18) and his Gospel Summary Statement (John 20:30-31) as bookends - and then…
The great symphony of John's Gospel begins here!
John's gospel has been known as the Gospel of Signs. But the crucial issue is where these signs point? This will put all the pieces of the divine jigsaw puzzle together, to understand why John was so crucial for what would later become the doctrine of the Trinity.
Jesus is approached by a senior religious figure and teacher - Nicodemus. But he discovers that the gospel of grace is more wonderfully scandalous than he could have imagined. NB BAD SOUND QUALITY
Jesus knew from the beginning that he was being dropped into enemy-occupied territory. How does the battle with darkness play out in John's gospel (with a particular focus on his conflict with the Pharisees over the healing of the man born blind?
What does it mean to be the church today? What does true gospel community shaped by love look like? Jesus in John gives a number of answers.
Fun for all the family - learning how Thomas' amazing confession of Christ can teach us all. NB - bad sound quality
An overview of some of the key objections to trusting the reliability of John's witness to Christ's ministry - as well as some suggestions for how to answer them.