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Bethnal Green Mission Church
This podcast are recordings of the sermons that take place each Sunday at BGMC.
Episodes
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What We Missed In...Our Alloted Portion in Life (9)
Qoheleth claims that we should enjoy and accept what God gives humans as our allotted portion or share in life – work, wealth, possessions, food and knowledge…
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What We Missed In...The Gift and Graft of Pleasure (8)
Qoholet has a CV of work and achievements to be proud of. Yet, we still find him groping for meaning and enjoyment in the midst of this 'vaporous' life. He…
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Love Does...Not Want What It Does Not Have
Continuing our series on Love Does, we look at how 'love does not want what it does not have'. What spiritual and practical habits can we cultivate that help…
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What We Missed In...Knowing Too Much (7)
We are looking at Qoholet's seach for wisdom and knowledge. Despite the high value he puts on the acquistion of knowledge and wisdom as we do, he states very…
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Love Does...Keeps Going to the End
In this next addition to our Love Does series on 1 Corinthians 13, James explores what it truly means for love to "endure all things". Drawing on his tattoos…
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What We Missed In...Messy Wisdom (6)
Wisdom is both lauded by Qoholet and our culture as something to be pursued and prized. But Ecclesiates paints a complicated and messy picture of the benefits…
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What We Missed In...Chronos and Kairos (5)
We're talking about our most valuable resource and our greatest enemy - time! In this second talk we examine the two greek words for time and their associated…
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What We Missed In...How to Inhabit Time (4)
Ecclesistaes 3.1-13 is one of the book's most well-known chapters, but also one of its most misunderstood. In this riddle-like poem of 28 seasons, time is…
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Love...Always Looks for the Best
Today Heather helps us understand the posture and spirit of love, which 'always looks for the best'. How is this both a challenge and joy as we seek to engage…
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What We Missed In...The Absurdity of No Gain (3)
Qoholet's ancient wisdom echoes modern philosophy and our own human condition, that we long to see gain from our toil, reward for our labour, and profit from…
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What We Missed In...Life's Baffling Uncontrollability (2)
In this second talk on Ecclesiastes, we explore Qohelet's vexed angst against the uncontrollable nature of life. If life is absurd vapour, 'a chasing after the…
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What We Missed In....Ecclesiastes (1)
Today we start a deep dive into the book of Ecclesiastes in our 'What We Missed In..' series. Ecclesiastes is a unique voice in Scripture, perhaps the nearest…
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Love...Trusts God Always
We're continuing our series 'Love Does', using the Message version of 1 Corintians 13.3-7. This week Bernie explores that very easy-to-do aspect of love which…
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Love...Takes Pleasure in the Flowering of Truth
In this talk James continues our sermon series on 'Love Does' looking at the concept of truth. Using scripture five scriptures as lenses, we look at truth from…
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Love Does...Not Strut
This talk starts a new series called "Love Does..." It looks at the various ways that 1 Corinthians 13 highlights how love is practically manifest. Taking The…
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Live Lent - Repentance
This sermon explored repentance as a Lenten practice — what repentance truly means, and why we often fear it. It reflected on some of the most common barriers…
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Live Lent - Contemplation
Looking at what is meant by Contemplation, how it is described by its great teachers and a chance to experience one of the Ignatian contemplative practices…
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What We Missed In...The Cross Q&A (12)
We reach the end of our series on WWMI the Cross with a Q&A with questions from members of BGMC.
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What We Missed In...The State of the Union (Cross 11)
We reach the conclusion of our mammoth series on the Atonement and our journey to expand our understanding and appreciation about how Jesus' death saves us. In…
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Live Lent - Silence
In a noisy world how do we experience silence? How is silence viewed from the experience of people in the biblical stories? Silence has often been a key…
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What We Missed In...The Cross and God's Rule and Reign (10)
The announcement that the Kingdom of God has arrived in Jesus is fundamental to our understanding of the cross because it is the proclaimation of regime…
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Live Lent - Forgiveness
We continue our Live Lent series by examining a major part of the Lenten season - forgiveness. Vince takes us through what it means to live a life of…
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What We Missed In...Crucifixion and the Meaning of the Cross (9)
We live with such distance from 1st Century Judea, we cannot expect to fathom the status and significance of an imperial death penalty like crucifixion. But is…
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Live Lent - Attentiveness
Our new series of 'Live Lent' has kicked off. In this talk James introduces us to the series and drills down into the theme of 'attentiveness' exploring how…
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What We Missed In...The Cross and the Justice of God (8)
Where does the death of Jesus fit in with God's telos of reconciling all things to himeslf? How can our view of the cross be compataible with God's desire to…
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What We Missed In...Jesus' Death as a Substitute (7)
This talk has two parts. - the first part is a light-hearted way to recap on some of the things BGMC have been unlearning and re-learning about the cross and…
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BGMC Carols and Cabaret Reflection
This is a re-recording of a brief Christmas reflection at BGMC's Carols and Cabaret evening which was celebrating the Community Sponsorship Scheme - Tower…
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Work, Rest and Play (and Worship)
In the final talk in this series, Joe explores the three questions in relation to play and how it resides on 'the spiritual table' of other disciplines in the…
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What We Missed In..Jesus' Death as a Sacrifice (6)
“If you want blood, you got it.” When we say that Jesus was a sacrifice for us, we often assume a great deal about what the Bible means by sacrifice. But as we…
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Work, Rest and Play (and Worship)
This week, Chrissy guides us through some thinking around the meaning of worship and how it relates to our everyday existence.
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What We Missed In...The Cross and Our Sin Story (5)
Every human lives within a Divine Drama and a Sin Story - who God is and what humans are. Various atonement theories communicate flawed and false narratives…
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Jesus Unwraths God (Part 2)
This is part two of a 2019 sermon series at BGMC called “A Jesus-Looking God.” We have added it now to complement the current WWMI the Cross series. While…
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Jesus Unwraths God (Part 1)
This talk was given in 2019 at BGMC as part of our series “A Jesus-Looking God.” It was not included in the original podcast archives, but we have added it now…
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Work, Rest and Play
In this talk, Bernie explores the part that play functions in our lives. How do the habits of play sit alongside the Christian disciplines of work and rest?
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What We Missed In...A Diseased Branch (4)
Our journey in exploring the death of Jesus takes us to many people's favourite golf club in our atonement bag of theories — Penal Substitution. It is an…
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What We Missed In...The Metaphors of the Cross (3)
We are exploring the rich and complex meaning of Jesus' death on the cross. Today, we look at two ways in which the church has historically tried to explain…
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What We Missed In...The Cross and the Cosmic Scapegoat (2)
We've started a pilgrimage in exploring the meaning of the crucifixion of Jesus. This week we take a deep dive into Rene Girard's scapegoating theory and how…
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What We Missed In...The Crucifixion of Jesus (Part 1)
This new series of What We Missed In... starts on Holy Cross Sunday, the Christian feast day dedicated to the exaltation of Jesus' crucifixion. This begins…
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Work, Rest and Play (and Worship)
If worship is the action and orientation of our whole lives towards God, what does it mean to work, rest and play? James introduces this new series, exploring…
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What We Missed In...The Parable of the Pearl of Ultimate Value
One of the problems we have when reading the parables is our over-familiarity with them. We think we have the meaning sussed and sorted. Often, though, we have…
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What We Missed In...The (Non) Parable of the Sheep and the Goats (Part 2)
We continue to wrestle with our biases and presumptions about this story of Jesus. Today we explore the thorny issue of Jesus' warning that the unrighteous…
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What We Missed In...The (Non) Parable of the Sheep and the Goats (Part 1)
Jesus' story in Matthew 25:1-13 about the judgement of the nations has been quoted in public spheres, political arenas, and church pulpits for many years. The…
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What We Missed In...The Parable of the Cunning Manager Part 2
This is part 2 of our reflections on one of Jesus' most enigmatic parables in Luke 16.1-13. Where was Jesus heading with this story, and what is the nature of…
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What We Missed In....The Parable of the Cunning Manager Part 1
This is one of Jesus' most eccentric and perplexing parables. What do we do with this man who is a frauster, a trickster, a deceiver, but whose actions are…
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What We Missed In...The Parable of the Irresponsible Vineyard Owner
Parable titles sometimes take us in the wrong direction, and so it seems for Jesus' parable of the labourers in Matthew 20. What can we learn about the Kingdom…
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Why I Am Still Christian - James Pickin
In this talk James kicks off our new series 'why am I still a Christian?'. In this talk James vulnerably shares his own journey with faith and sexuality and…
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Deconstruction As Discipleship - Episdoe 6 Towards a Flourishing Community of Re-forming Disciples
Welcome to this final episode in our journey through Deconstruction as Discipleship by Michael Houston. Chapter 6, titled Towards a Flourishing Community of…
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Deconstruction As Discipleship - Episode 5 Surgery on a Malformed Faith
Welcome to this episode, where we explore Chapter 5 of Michael Houston’s Deconstruction as Discipleship, titled Surgery on a Malformed Faith. In this powerful…
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Deconstruction As Discipleship - Episode 4 Dismantling Two Faith Constructs
Welcome to this episode of our series on Deconstruction as Discipleship, where we engage with Chapter 4: Dismantling Two Faith Constructs. In this chapter…
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Deconstruction As Discipleship - Episode 3 The Provocations of Faith Disorientation
Welcome to this episode, where we explore Chapter 3 of Mike Houston’s Deconstruction as Discipleship, titled Provocations of Faith Disorientation. In this…
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Deconstruction As Discipleship - Episode 2 The Syntax of Deconstruction
Welcome to this episode, where we dive into Chapter 2 of Deconstruction as Discipleship by Michael Houston, titled The Syntax of Deconstruction. In this…
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Deconstruction as Discipleship - Episode 1 Where Has Deconstruction Come From?
Welcome to this AI-generated podcast series, based on Deconstruction as Discipleship: A Credo for a Christ-like Community Wrestling with Faith by Mike Houston…
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What We Missed In...Wisdom, Folly and the Delayed Groom (Part 2)
In the second sermon of Jesus' story of the 10 bridesmaids, we wrestle with Matthew's context, style of writing and emphasis to discover how they drive the…
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What We Missed In...Wisdom, Folly and the Delayed Groom (Introduction)
It's safe to say that the parable of the wise and foolish bridesmaids is not one of Jesus' most loved stories. We have most likely heard it as a warning to be…
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Art from the Heart - Faithfulness
Exploring Faithfulness in the Fruits of the Spirit series is inspired by the online exhibition from the National Gallery. The exhibits are Orazio Gentileschi…
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Art from the Heart - Peace
Peace. A word used liberally by those across all Christian traditions. But how should we understand it as the third Fruit of the Spirit? In this episode of our…