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Severn's All You Can Eat Buffet
Hosted by Severn Church, Bristol · EN
Severn is a Bristol-based church for people who are searching for hope and wanting to contribute to the well-being of other people.
This podcast feed is pretty much everything we're making in audio form, from talks and discussions to meditations and music. That's why it's our "all you can eat buffet", with the whole spread in one convenient place. (Look out for more focused feeds on particular topics as we launch them if you prefer going "a la carte".)
Online, we live at https://www.severnchurchbristol.org
You'll find our live online gatherings and social chatter at https://www.facebook.com/severnchurchbristol
And our big stack of videos is on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@severnchurchbristol
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Talk: Bearers of hope - David Jennings
2w ago00:35:25Tap to summarizeHow can we bring hope where we live? David Jennings shares his experience of life in Bristol meeting people in difficult situations and trying to share God's love with them. It can sometimes feel like our faith life is purely personal, and it's good to remember how much God love us. But is this comfort only part of the life God wants for us? Can we believe that it's possible to share in suffering and bring hope and life too?
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Talk: Rhythms and rituals episode 4 - Pentecost, the festival of Weeks - Owen Lynch
3w ago00:31:20Tap to summarizeWhat does it mean to celebrate things that grow slowly? Owen Lynch looks at the Jewish festival that marked 50 days after Passover. In the time since offering first fruits of the harvest to God, more crops had grown and matured, and bread could be made that had time to rise. Offering this to God showed thanks for his provision of things that took time to get right. How often do we appreciate these things more than what we can get instantly, on demand, for ourselves? Pentecost also used to be understood as a celebration of the nation-defining law given to Moses so Jewish people could grow. Christians remember the Holy Spirit given to believers at the time of this festival too. What does God want us to know about what can happen when we let this Spirit define us and grow fruit slowly in us?
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Talk: The spark in the dark - Marie-Anne Joiner
4w ago00:34:11Tap to summarizeWhen life looks dark, what happens when light surprises us? Marie-Anne Joiner shares experiences of finding joy in difficulty and mystery, and how this can fuel creativity we all have. Everyone has stories worth sharing, but how do we find them? Can we learn to make space and silence to notice the fullness of God’s presence, like stars in the darkness?
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Talk: Closed minds, blown minds, open minds - Karen Green
May 1000:30:28Tap to summarizeWhat difference does our state of mind make when we see new things happening? Karen Green shares experience of life in Bristol and looks at stories of people around Jesus who looked at God’s coming kingdom in different ways. Can getting to know Jesus better and growing our faith in him change the way we see the world, and develop open minds to new possibilities?
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Talk: Rhythms and rituals episode 3 - Firstfruits - Owen Lynch
May 300:27:36Tap to summarizeHow can celebrating and giving the first part of our year’s grown food be helpful to us? Owen Lynch looks at the festival of Firstfruits, given in the Bible for Jewish people to mark a few days after Passover. It recognises how a food-growing community that has gone through a season where nothing grew could look forward to more fruitful life ahead. They didn’t wait for the whole year’s harvest, but made offerings from their first fruits in faith that new life had overcome the threat of death. What difference could that kind of faith make to us, and how can we practise it?
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Talk: How is your soil? - Kyle Henderson-Begg
Apr 2600:31:05Tap to summarizeWhat difference does the state of our hearts make to how we receive, process and grow with words from God? Kyle Henderson-Begg looks at Jesus’ parable of the sower, and what it meant for their seed to be everywhere but growing differently in different places. What does good growth look like, and how can we see more of it?
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Talk: Vulnerability
Apr 1900:23:39Tap to summarizeWhat difference does sharing vulnerability make? Looking at examples from the Bible and stories of experience today, we look at how willingness to show where we are imperfect or need help can transform us and our relationships.
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Talk: God’s love for us - Jason Whiley
Apr 1200:27:42Tap to summarizeWhat does love from God mean for us? Jason Whiley shares experience of receiving, living in and sharing love from God, and looks at passages from the Bible including Psalm 139 which show how others have seen this too.
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Talk: Faith, flags, and an unlikely kind of King - Dan Green
Mar 2900:32:35Tap to summarizeWhat do we expect from God’s kingdom and Jesus as King? In this Palm Sunday talk, Dan Green looks at what the crowd who welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem hoped and believed might happen, and how they would have been shocked by Jesus and what would happen next. Similarly, when crowds gather today with faith, flags and the nation in mind, does Jesus fit expectations? What do we expect from Jesus?
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The Desert Trials episode 6 - the world trial: what Jesus said
Mar 2500:20:42Tap to summarizeWe’re going through Lent spending time every day, not alone but with Jesus in the desert, not empty but full of his Spirit, not resting but wrestling with the things that get between us and God, not relying on ourselves but trusting in God to win every battle thanks to what Jesus did.Matthew 4:10-11Jesus said to him, ‘Away from me, Satan! For it is written: “Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.”’Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.Jesus’ answer about worship is straightforward - only worship and serve God.What does this mean for us, though? Is it just about religious activity?How broad a role does worship have in our lives?What does it mean for us to worship God while working, talking, doing everyday things?How does this connect with our senses of identity, purpose and value?What might happen if we choose to deepen our faith in God, worship more and serve him only?We’re inviting you to reflect on this as Easter approaches.We hope you’ve enjoyed this series - thank you for listening!
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