The weekly podcast for Central West End Church in St. Louis, MO. For more information please visit www.centralwestendchurch.com.
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Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church is a fully inclusive church on the edge of Covent Garden in London's West End. We've been here since 1848 and remain commited to progressive theology, to seeing renewal in the inner city, and to welcoming people from around the world. For more info, see our website.
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Whether it’s the ancient Roman Empire, or the year 2024 in the modern West, following Jesus requires courage. If you struggle with fear, and wonder where you can get the courage to follow Jesus, this passage is a goldmine.By Eric Stiller -Acts 5:27-42
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Living Life in the Light of the Resurrection
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Revd Dr Simon Woodman Preaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 7th July 2024 Genesis 22.1-131 John 1.1-2.2Read this sermon here: https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/07/living-life-in-light-of-resurrection.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.uk…
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Revd Dr Steve FinamorePreaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 30th June 2024Job 38.1-11Mark 4.35-41To find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.ukBy Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
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Wouldn’t it be great if the Church could be totally transformed? If it could, how would that be possible. Historically, when the Church experiences radical transformation it is called Revival. Join us as we continue our series in the book of Acts and we look at the account of the very first revival.By Eric Stiller - 4:23-25
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Revd Ruth BottomsPreaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 23rd June 2024 Psalm 139.1-12 Luke 24.13-27To find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.ukBy Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
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Many people say no one should ever claim to have the one, true religion. But what if the gospel is not only not the oppressive threat many people think it is? What if, instead, it’s actually the only thing that can really create a world of true justice and peace?By Eric Stiller - 4:1-13
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Revd Dr Simon Woodman Preaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 16th June 2024 Revelation 8.1-6Read this sermon here: https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/06/spiritual-disciplines-for-extroverts.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.uk…
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Revd Dr Simon Woodman Preaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 9th June 2024 Luke 11.2-4Read this sermon here: https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/06/praying-powers.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.ukBy Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
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The presence of evil and suffering in this world is still one of the most powerful arguments against faith in an all-loving, all-powerful creator. We want to make sense of it. Even more, we want to find freedom from it. Is that possible? And if so, how?By Eric Stiller - Acts 3:1-21
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What if the only solution for the oppression, abuse, and injustices of the church isn’t the removal of the church, but the renewal of the church? One of the best ways to get a vision for the future of the church is to get a clearer picture of the very first church. This passage helps us do that.By Eric Stiller - Acts 2:37-47
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Revd Dr Simon Woodman Preaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 2nd June 2024 Colossians 1.15-20 Read this sermon here: https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/05/environment-sunday-2024.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.ukBy Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
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Revd Dr Simon Woodman Preaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 26th May 2024 Luke 11.1-13Genesis 18.20-32Read this sermon here: https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/05/teacher-teach-us-how-to-pray.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.uk…
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This passage contains the first explicit proclamation of the gospel of Jesus. So if we want to understand what the gospel really means, there is no better place to look.By Eric Stiller - Acts 2:12-39
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Pete MooreyPreaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 19th May 2024Acts 2:1-4 1 Corinthians 12:1-13 To find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.ukBy Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
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In our culture, spirituality is hot. Church is not. But what if real spirituality is impossible to experience apart from Jesus and the church he called into being? This passage helps us by showing us what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit.By Eric Stiller - Acts 2: 1-13
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Revd Dr Simon Woodman Preaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 12th May 20241 Corinthians 15.1-26,51-57 Read this sermon here: https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/05/resurrection.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.ukBy Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
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Jesus had gone back to heaven. It seemed like the end. But then his disciples were reminded of what they needed to go on. It could be just what you need, too.By Eric Stiller - Acts 1:12-26
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The first Christians were a minority movement of social, cultural, and religious outsiders with zero political power. Yet within 30 years, they turned the world upside down. How? It all begins in this passage.By Eric Stiller - Acts 1:1-11
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Revd Dr Simon Woodman Preaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 5th May 20241 Corinthians 13.1-13Read this sermon here: https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-difference-love-makes.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.uk…
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Revd Dr Simon WoodmanPreaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church28th April 2024Acts 18.1-41 Corinthians 1.10-18https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-personal-touch.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.ukBy Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
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Questions Jesus Asked: What Are You Discussing?
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We live in a world where many believe in God or spiritual reality, but what feels more real to us is all the pressures, anxieties, and discouragement of what we call “the real world.” How does that change? In this passage, Jesus leads us through the path of transformation.By Eric Stiller: Luke 24:13-33
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Questions Jesus Asked: What Is Your Name?
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To have a name is to be a person: a unique self with meaning and dignity. Evil is anything that distorts and destroys your personhood. It erases your name. But in this passage, we see how Jesus restores it back to us.By Eric Stiller: Mark 5:1-20
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Revd Dr Simon Woodman Preaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 21st April 2024Acts 17.1-91 Thessalonians 1.1-10Read this sermon here: https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/04/turning-world-upside-down.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.uk…
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Questions Jesus Asked: Do You Want To Be Healed?
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Faith healing is a real thing. And it isn’t magic, unless you put your faith in someone other than Jesus. This passage considers the significance of vulnerability, prayer, and gratitude in healing.By Eric Stiller - John 5:1-18
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Revd Dr Simon Woodman Preaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 14th April 2024Acts 3.1-10Read this sermon here: https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/04/love-that-heals.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.ukBy Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
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Revd Dr Simon Woodman Preaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 7th April 2024Genesis 28.10-19Acts 1.1-11Read this sermon here: https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/04/wheres-jesus.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.ukBy Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
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With this question, Jesus doesn’t ask whether we have faith. He assumes we do. That might sound counterintuitive to many, but this passage takes us deeper into the real nature of faith.By Eric Stiller - Luke 8:22-25
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Revd Dr Simon Woodman Preaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 31st March 2024 Daniel 7.9-14 Mark 15.47-16.8aRead this sermon here: https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-empty-tomb.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.uk…
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Questions Jesus Asked: Why Are You Weeping?
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We live in a weeping world, because everything we love is always dying. But we also live in a seeking world, because we long for something that cannot be touched by death. How does the resurrection of Jesus address this struggle?By Eric Stiller - John 20:11-18
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Questions Jesus Asked: Why Have You Forsaken Me?
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“Why have you forsaken me?” Jesus didn’t ask this question of a human being. He asked it of God. What does it mean? To look at the cross is to come face to face with something we don’t want to look at, but desperately need to.By Eric Stiller - Mark 15:33-39
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Nigel WilliamsPreaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church24th March 2024Mark 11.1-11Mark 14.3-9To find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.ukBy Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
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Revd Dr Simon Woodman Preaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 17th March 2024 Mark 13.1-8, 24-37Read this sermon here: https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-end-times.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.ukBy Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
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By Eric Stiller - John 21:15-19
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Questions Jesus Asked? Who Do You Say That I Am?
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It’s hard to face the pain and negativity of our lives and this world. We want things to be smooth, including spirituality. But Jesus offers us a way through the pain to something far greater.By Eric Stiller - Mark 8:27-38
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Revd Dr Simon Woodman Preaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 10th March 2024Deuteronomy 6.3-6; Leviticus 19.9-18Mark 12.28-34Read this sermon here: https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/03/love-of-god-love-of-neighbour.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.uk…
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Revd Simon PerryPreaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church3rd March 2024Mark 12.1-17To find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.ukBy Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
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Questions Jesus Asked: What’s Your Greatest Fear?
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By Eric Stiller - Mark 5:21-43
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Questions Jesus Asked:Do You See This Woman?
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We all need to know not only that we are worthy of love and belonging, we need to know why. The woman in this story, and Jesus’ question about her, give us a new way of seeing others by giving us a new way of seeing ourselves.By Eric Stiller - Luke 7:36-50
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Revd Dr Simon WoodmanPreaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church25th February 2024Mark 10.32-45Mark 10.46-52Read this sermon here: https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/02/patriarchy-paternalism-and-patronage.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.uk…
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Revd Dr Simon WoodmanPreaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church18th February 2024Mark 9.30-37; 10.17-31Read this sermon here: https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/02/giving-it-up-for-lent.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.uk…
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Christ Under the Rubble - A vigil for Gaza, with The Revd Dr Munther Isaac
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Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, Sunday 18 February 2024, 2pm.A service of prayers, music, readings, poetry, silence, and a call to action; with the sermon given by The Revd Dr Munther Isaac, pastor of Christmas Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, academic dean of Bethlehem Bible College in Palestine, and director of the Christ at the Check…
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To be human is to long for more than we currently experience and to be more than we currently are. In this passage, Jesus asks a question that brings us to the very heart of our longing for something more.By Eric Stiller - John 1:35-51
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Parables of the Kingdom: Purpose of the Parables
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Why would Jesus do so much of his teaching by means of parables, which are so hard to understand? In this passage, Jesus shows us the counter-intuitive, yet deeply healing, answer.By Eric Stiller - Matthew 13:10-17,53-58
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Revd Dr Simon WoodmanPreaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church11th February 2024Mark 8.27-38Mark 9.1-8Read this sermon here: https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/01/losing-ones-self-to-find-oneself.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.uk…
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We modern people struggle greatly with the idea of God’s judgment. But in this parable, Jesus shows us that unless we allow God to be a God of judgment, then he cannot be the God of love we so desperately desire.By Eric Stiller - Matthew 13:47-50
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Annie DupreePreaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church4 February 2024Mark 6.1-13To find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.ukBy Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
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Revd Dr Simon WoodmanPreaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church28 January 2024Mark 5.21-43https://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/01/reach-out-and-touch-faith.htmlTo find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.ukBy Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
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Parables of the Kingdom: The Treasure and Pearl
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Who doesn’t want to be someone’s precious “treasure”? Who doesn’t want to know that someone loves them more than life itself? No matter who you are, these two short parables are an invitation to both those gifts.By Eric Stiller - Matthew 13:44-46
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Parables of the Kingdom: The Mustard Seed and the Leaven
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The problem of the “other” is one of the biggest problems in our world. How should we respond? Is it possible to embrace the other? These two short parables offer us a powerful answer.By Eric Stiller - Matthew 13:31-33
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Revd Peta EvansPreaching at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 21st January 2024 Mark 5.1-10Mark 5.10-20To find out more about Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, check out our website www.bloomsbury.org.ukBy Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
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