Book by Book

A Persian emperor issues a decree to rebuild God’s temple and his name appears in prophecy written long before he’s born. That’s where our Book of Ezra Bible study begins, recorded in London with Richard Bewes, Paul...

Wealth can feel like armour, right up until the moment it starts rusting. As we reach the final chapter of James, we sit with one of the Bible’s most direct warnings about money, injustice, and the spiritual danger of...

Peaceful churches do not happen by accident, and James refuses to let us blame “the atmosphere” or “the times we live in”. As we open James 3:18 through chapter 4, we follow the sudden turn from peacemakers to wars and...

One careless sentence can undo months of trust. That is why James chapter 3 feels so modern: it treats speech as a spiritual force, not a side issue, and it refuses to let leaders hide behind good intentions or good...

A sentence can sound spiritual and still mean nothing: “I believe in God.” James refuses to let us hide behind that kind of talk. We sit with James 2:14 onwards and feel the force of his claim that faith without action...

You can sit through years of preaching and still miss the point. From a fruit and veg shop at the Farm Fellowship near Preston, we open James and let it press on the places where everyday life is won or lost: listening...

“Consider it pure joy” is one of the hardest lines in the New Testament to take seriously, especially when life is genuinely frightening. From a barn at Farm Fellowship near Preston, we begin a book-by-book Bible study...

The world can feel like it belongs to whoever shouts loudest, fights hardest, or manipulates best, so Psalm 24 lands like a challenge: “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.” We take that claim seriously and...

Psalm 23 is so familiar that we can miss how daring it really is. We sit with “The Lord is my shepherd” and read it in its wider setting, between Psalm 22’s crucifixion shadow and Psalm 24’s picture of Christ the King...

The opening line of Psalm 22 is not a distant religious quote, it is the cry Jesus chose for the cross. We sit with the words “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” and ask what they actually mean, not just...

Psalm 20 sounds like a comforting prayer until you ask one unsettling question: who is the “you”? From Sandown Park near London, we follow that thread and find ourselves face to face with the Messiah, because the psalm...

A love that warns is a love that won’t look away. We sit with Leviticus 26–27 and hear a Father’s voice pressing toward blessing, waving us off the edge with urgency, and promising a world remade. The conversation...

What if the most radical social policy begins in worship? We open Leviticus 24–25 and find a blueprint where reverence for the Name reshapes hearts, households, and even soil. This conversation moves from the gravity of...

A calendar of rituals can feel distant, until you realise it maps the whole arc of redemption. We walk through Leviticus 23 and discover how each feast becomes a waypoint: Sabbath as weekly rest that remembers creation...

Holiness isn’t a soft glow. It’s a blazing reality that exposes our best masks and raises a hard question: who can stand? We open Leviticus 22 and follow its thread through the strict life of priests, the demand for...