Stephen Sutton

This Sunday we begin a brand new season in the life of our church. Over the summer we'll be journeying through Luke's Gospel together as part of a new sermon series, and I want to invite every single person at The Beacon Church to read it along with us. Many of you will know that in September we are launching Bible Conversations Teesside, a mission that will see thousands of copies of Luke's Gospel and the book of Acts, distributed across our area. People from across Teesside will be invited...

This is the final week in our God’s Book series we come to one of the biggest and most emotionally charged topics in the whole Bible: What happens after death? Heaven. Hell. Judgement. Eternity. And for many people, these ideas carry all sorts of emotions, fear, confusion, scepticism, curiosity, anxiety and hope. Because deep down, most of us sense that human life must mean more than just a few decades between birth and death. Something inside of us longs for justice.... or wrongs to be made...

This week in our God’s Book series we moved into one of the most confusing subjects in the Bible Do miracles and exorcisms really happen? For many people, this is where Christianity starts to feel a bit wierd. Miracles? Healing? Demons? Surely that belongs in the ancient world? And yet when you open the New Testament, you quickly realise that miracles are not sitting quietly at the edges of the story. They are everywhere. Jesus heals the sick. He calms storms. He drives out evil spirits....