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27 September 2026 · Ade Birkby

Jesus the Revolutionary

The Parable of the Talents and the Comparison Trap

Ade Birkby joins Crowd from North Wales to explore the Parable of the Talents and what it says about comparison culture. Drawing on a 2023 UK study, where 93% of young people felt pressure to compare themselves online, he shows that the third servant's failure started not with laziness but with a single sideways glance. Even one talent was worth around £780,000, so the size of our assignment was never the point, the way we steward it is. God prefers messy, risk-taking faith over safe, buried faith. It's not what you've got, it's how you use it.

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Jesus the Revolutionary

27 September 2026 · Ade Birkby

The Parable of the Talents and the Comparison Trap

Ade Birkby joins Crowd from North Wales to explore the Parable of the Talents and what it says about comparison culture. Drawing on a 2023 UK study, where 93% of young people felt pressure to compare themselves online, he shows that the third servant's failure started not with laziness but with a single sideways glance. Even one talent was worth around £780,000, so the size of our assignment was never the point, the way we steward it is. God prefers messy, risk-taking faith over safe, buried faith. It's not what you've got, it's how you use it.

Jesus the Revolutionary

20 September 2026 · Mike Harris

When You Feel Like You Don't Belong

Mike Harris explores that all-too-common feeling of walking into a room and knowing you don't belong. Through three Bible stories, Mary Magdalene, Ruth, and a man with leprosy, he shows a God who moves toward the people everyone else avoids and pulls outsiders into His family. The real work of welcome, Mike says, starts in us, not in the chairs and banners. In Conversation Street, Matt and Sharon dig into welcome versus approval, what "repent" really means, and why Jesus was drawn to the broken. The heart of it all is a seat at God's table you never had to earn.

Jesus the Revolutionary

13 September 2026 · Sharon Edmundson

What Does John 16:33 Mean? Trouble, and Taking Heart

Sharon Edmundson opens Crowd Church's tougher teachings of Jesus series with John 16:33, "In this world you will have trouble, but take heart, I have overcome the world." Following Jesus was never a promise of an easy life, so hardship isn't proof you've failed or that God has abandoned you. Sharon explains what trouble really means, why the promise of it is oddly encouraging, and shares her own cancer story alongside a colleague's very different outcome. With honest Conversation Street reflections from Anna Kettle and Dave Connolly on suffering, doubt and deep roots, this is faith for the hard days.

Jesus the Revolutionary

6 September 2026 · Matt Edmundson

When the Shame Won't Let You Stop Hiding

Most of us have a moment we're sure defines us. A thing we did that makes us feel like a bad person, not just someone who did a bad thing. Peter had one. He denied even knowing Jesus three times, warming his hands at a charcoal fire while he did it. This week Matt Edmundson walked through what happened next, when Jesus lit the same kind of fire on a beach and cooked Peter breakfast. It's a talk about shame, grace and finding a way back, for anyone who's decided the verdict on them is already in.

Psalms

30 August 2026 · Will Sopwith

You're Not Too Far Gone to Be Restored

When something wears out, our instinct is to replace it. Psalm 126 offers a different picture, and this week Will Sopwith closed our summer "Restored" series on it. He unpacks joy as something you can't talk yourself into, only grow into, and then three everyday pictures of restoration, the old chair stripped back to the wood, the oil painting cleaned of years of grime, the relationship rebuilt slowly. In each one, someone looks past the damage to what the thing could be again. It's a picture, Will suggests, of how God sees people, and of why Christians say their hope is in Jesus the restorer.

Psalms

23 August 2026 · Matt Edmundson

The Love You Don't Have to Earn

Most of us assume there's some tidying up to do before God's good stuff applies to us. Psalm 103 was written by someone who'd stopped believing that. Matt Edmundson walks through David's list of what God has already done - forgiveness that goes deeper than a rule broken, healing with the honest caveat left in, rescue, and a crown of steadfast love nobody has to earn. Along the way, why sin might be better understood as a design distorted than a scorecard failed, what actually qualifies as steadfast when you ask it of your job and your relationships, and the four-sentence answer to why you don't need to be perfect to qualify.

Psalms

16 August 2026 · Sharon Edmundson

When You're Not Sure If God Still Cares

Praying about the same thing for months and starting to wonder whether anyone is listening? Psalm 77 was written by someone in exactly that position. Sharon Edmundson walks through a psalm that never resolves its own question, where the writer runs out of words entirely and is left with groaning, asks whether God has forgotten to be merciful, and then makes a deliberate decision to remember what God has already done. Alongside it, what current mental health research says about the fight in our heads, why the stiff upper lip was never faith, and three specific things to do when you are in the middle of it.

Psalms

9 August 2026 · Ade Birkby

When Mindfulness Isn't Enough

Ade Birkby takes on the question of why peace stays out of reach even when we do the sensible things. He looks honestly at what mindfulness, green space, close friendships and digital boundaries genuinely achieve, and where they run out. Then he turns to Psalm 16, a psalm David wrote while he was being hunted, and draws out three moves David makes. Choosing a stronghold to stand in, accepting the reality he has actually been given, and resting on a future that is already settled. Along the way, a useful distinction. Happiness needs a good day. Joy does not.

Psalms

2 August 2026 · Josh Edmundson

You're Allowed to Be Angry With God

Psalm 80 is a song written by people whose world had collapsed - and it was their own fault. Josh Edmundson unpacks why that matters. The psalmist doesn't ignore the mess, doesn't pretend he's fine, and doesn't rush to fix it. He names the grief and takes it straight to God, anger and all. It's a working model for lament, and it ends somewhere unexpected - every image in the psalm, the vine and the son and the prayer for God's face to shine, turns up again in Jesus.

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20 September 2026

Two Brain Bleeds, And Still He's Thankful

Kelly Green was knocked out officiating an American football game and woke up with two brain bleeds. Then came skin cancer, a brain tumour, the loss of his mum and surgery after surgery, the year his wife nicknamed the Year of the Dragon. We hear how this pastor of 40 years found himself more grateful and closer to God in the middle of it all, and what he means when he says our wounds don't get to write the final chapter of our lives.

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