Here you can find the latest talks from Kairos Central Gatherings. You can listen in each post or download to your own device.
Don’t give up on justice!
On Sunday 21st September Ben spoke on Micah 6:8 and encouraged us: don’t give up on justice. You can listen here or using the player below.You can find 3 sets of discussion notes on this topic here. If you want to take explore Environmental Justice more then a good place to start is the excellent […]
Go and make disciples of all nations
Reflecting on Jesus’ great commission in Matthew 28:16-20, Emma explores how are we to ‘make disciples’. Some of the vital ingredients for this process are nurture, inclusion, and loving others by listening to them. You can listen here or using the player below.
Listening Carefully… Choose
Sadly we weren’t able to record last Sundays Central Gathering sermon. Ben talked about the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 7:13-48. Jesus shares a set of picture-parables to prompt his listeners to a choice. The narrow and wide gates. Jesus says that the way to life is narrow, its hard and involves […]
Listening carefully… do not judge
We continue our journey through the Sermon on the Mount and Ben reflects on Jesus’ ‘most consistent, useful, and least obeyed teaching’ – do not judge others. We all long for acceptance, welcome and love when we are truly seen and known. How can we extend this welcome to one another and the people we […]
Listening carefully… wealth & worry
Sarah B continues our study of the Sermon on the Mount, reflecting on our relationship with money, possessions, and the things that worry or concern us. The reading is Matthew 6:19-34. You can listen here or using the player below.
Listening carefully… learning how to pray
Jesus gives us a model or map for prayer as part of his Sermon on the Mount. Helen A guides us through this prayer which draws us close to God as Father, reorientates us to God in worship and involves us in God’s work of reuniting earth with heaven then invites us to bring our […]
Listening carefully… when you fast, pray, give.
This Sunday we did something slightly different. Rather than a talk on this topic I led some discussion around Matthew 6: 1-8, 16-18. Why not join in with a similar reflection. Read the passage a couple of times and then think about the following questions. What Got my (Ben) attention was the word ‘when’. Jesus […]
Encountering the risen Jesus
As we celebrated Easter Sunday, Ben spoke about Jesus’ transformative meeting with two discouraged disciples as they walked from Jerusalem to Emmaus, talking (or perhaps arguing) together and finally recognising him through the familiar gesture of breaking bread. ‘Resurrection power triumphs, God’s love is victorious.’ How can we live in the light of that reality? […]
Listening carefully… oaths, revenge, enemies
Continuing our series studying the Sermon on the Mount, Helen B reflects on our use of language, creative responses to oppressive behaviour, good disagreement, and how food brings us together. The reading is Matthew 5:33-48. You can listen here or using the player below. You can find a link to the next Bible Project video […]
Listening carefully… murder, adultery and divorce
Continuing our series studying the Sermon on the Mount, Ben reflects on Jesus’ challenging words in Matthew 5:21-32. Jesus calls us to live in a way that demonstrates what God is like by the way we relate to each other, honouring and valuing one another in relationship, not crushing, objectifying or discarding, not only in […]