Up: The Union Podcast

What can I do if I have used my power for my own ends? What can I do if I have power but have failed to take responsibility and use it properly? Mark Stirling gives some practical pointers.

We're often warned about money, sex, and power – they're dangerous and addictive. But is power something Christian leaders should avoid?

Mark Stirling looks at Jesus' teaching to his disciples about power.

Mark Stirling shows us that biblically, power is for the purpose of humble service.

Mark Stirling looks at the nature of authority in Christian leadership and challenges us to think about how easily it can be twisted.

Gloria Furman gives us practical help in enjoying Jesus daily while we are pressed for time, bored, or busy.

Dan Hames asks Gloria Furman why it's important – and if it's possible – to keep Christ at the centre of family life.

Gloria Furman speaks about helping your children to know the Lord while staying close to him yourself.

Gloria Furman reflects on the ways motherhood brought her to deal with fear and change, and taught her about the love of God.

Gloria Furman speaks about the challenges and blessings of being a busy mother.

Kyle Strobel speaks about the benefits of silent prayer, resting in the intercession of the Son and the Spirit.

Kyle Strobel speaks about the subject of his book, 'Beloved Dust'; knowing ourselves before God in prayer.

Kyle Strobel talks about why Jonathan Edwards said God is 'religious'.

Kyle Strobel delves into the biblical language of 'seeing God', considering what it means to 'see' God now by faith, and to see him face-to-face in the age to come.

Dan Hames asks Kyle Strobel how Christians should relate to the OT language and concept of 'the presence of God' today.

In the final part of our series reading through Luther on the first commandment, we're encouraged to reflect for ourselves how we respond to God's promises.

In the fourth of five instalments reading through Luther's teaching on the first commandment, we come to the threat and the promise God attached to it.

Listen to Martin Luther on the first commandment, from his Large Catechism, in the third of five instalments.

Dan Hames reads from Luther's teaching on the first commandment in the second of five instalments.

We sit back and read Luther's teaching on the first commandment in the first of five instalments.