Episodes
Monday Dec 25, 2023
Advent 2023: Isaiah 9 vs 1-7 A Light Shines
Monday Dec 25, 2023
Monday Dec 25, 2023
For unto us a child is born - Our Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Darkness will give way to light, sadness to joy, burden to freedom, tyranny to justice.
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
In this Advent season, these ancient words from Isaiah prompt us to turn to our Lord, our father in penitence and faith. To align ourselves with His purpose and to serve Christ and humanity in His name. To await the day of His return with watchfulness and patience.
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
This week our Advent podcasts turns to Isaiah 61 where we hear voices of hope, restoration, justice and thanksgiving. Voices which point us to our Lord Jesus Christ, who invited all who are heavy with care to come to him and be refreshed.
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
The Bible and the Bishop - Advent 2023: Isaiah 40 Comfort my People
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
This Advent, God comes to us afresh to bring His comfort, consolation and His care. Will we hear Him, welcome Him, receive and believe Him. Will we allow Him to do his amazing work in the hopelessness of our times and lives. Join Bishop Ferran, this advent as we prepare for the coming of Jesus Christ.
Sunday Dec 25, 2022
The Bible and The Bishop - Advent 2022: Christmas Day - Isaiah 7: 10-14
Sunday Dec 25, 2022
Sunday Dec 25, 2022
What does the future hold? This Christmas Day, we consider a sign given by God that a virgin will conceive and give birth to a Son who would be God with us.
Friday Dec 23, 2022
The Bible and the Bishop: Advent 2022 - Week 3: Isaiah 35
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Friday Dec 23, 2022
What does the future hold? This week we turn to the glorious image in Isaiah 35 of a wilderness transformed. Like those in ancient times we live with the hostility, difficulties and anxieties of wilderness places. But at Advent time we celebrate that God has come into this place, he is at work transforming the landscape and will accompany us on the road home.
Friday Dec 09, 2022
The Bible and the Bishop - Advent 2022: Week 2 - Isaiah 1 vs 11
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Friday Dec 09, 2022
This week we turn to Isaiah 11 vs 1 and the reminder that the great hope of Advent is Jesus Christ, the shoot and root of the stump of Jessie, who will return again to put things right.
Friday Dec 02, 2022
The Bible and the Bishop Advent 2022: Isaiah 2 vs 4
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Friday Dec 02, 2022
What does the Future Hold? Advent is a time of year in the church calendar when we look forward to Christs return. In this first episode of our Advent series we turn to Isaiah's vision of a time when swords will be beat into ploughshares and there will be no more war.
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
The Bible and the Bishop: Holy Week 2022 Friday - Good Friday?
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
In our final podcast in this Holy Week 2022 series Bishop Ferran turns to Matthew 26-27 where we read of God doing His greatest good in humanity's greatest evil.
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
The Bible and the Bishop: Holy Week 2022 Maundy Thursday - The Garden
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
This Maundy Thursday we turn to the events in the Garden of Gethsemane recorded in Mark 14:32-42. It is a story which invites us to marvel at what the Son of God faced and embraced for us as he gave His life for us.