King's Church London

In this well-known parable, Jesus uses a story about a father and two sons to challenge the way that we think about and approach God. This is not just a story about one son leaving and returning, but about two sons and how they relate to their father.

In this message, Phil Varley describes the challenge, the comfort and the choice we have to make in God's Kingdom.

There are a number of puzzles, or paradoxes, to the kingdom of God in the ministry of Jesus – and those same puzzles exist in the Christian life. Here we consider four, as Andrew Wilson, our Teaching Pastor, begins our new series on the Gospel of Luke.

Paul prays for the church in Ephesians, for people he loves. It’s a surprising and challenging prayer, touching on issues of 'why' we pray and 'what' really matters most.

The Lord’s Prayer might be the most familiar and quoted paragraph in world history. In order to see it through new eyes, we look for help from St Augustine’s letter to Anicia, and learn the what, the why and the how of prayer.

Prayer is not always functional. Sometimes it's simply about enjoying God's presence. Psalm 84 gives us a wonderful example of how to do this.

In this message that launches our January 21 Days of Prayer, our Senior Pastor Steve Tibbert looks at lessons we can learn about corporate prayer from the New Testament church in Acts 4. It is powerful when the people of God come together, raise their voices in song and intercession, and cry out to God to save, heal, restore and intervene in the world. The best way of applying this is for us to get to the 21 Days of Prayer prayer evenings and put it into practice: 6th to 26th January 2020, 7-8pm at the Catford site (Friday nights at sites).

“Simeon and Anna are two people who never feature in nativity plays or advent calendars, but their responses to the birth of Jesus are beautiful, and delightfully ordinary. They also have a lot to teach us today.”

The genealogy of Jesus includes the names of five surprising (and even scandalous) women. By including them, Matthew teaches us a lot about how to handle challenges to our faith, and more importantly, about the scandalous mercy of God in Christ.

We all live within a series of different relationships which we have to navigate. They can bring both joy and pain. Steve Tibbert, our Senior Pastor, looks at how being a Christian encourages us to focus more on our responsibilities than our rights and ‘make every effort to keep the bonds of peace.’ Find out more about our RESTORED series at kingschurchlondon.org/restored.