Ordinary Christ Church Haywards Heath

Final episode of season 3 before the Ordinary boys head off for a little break. Reflecting on the mixed emotions of freedom day, and some thoughts on how to best use your time off over the summer. We have book recommendations, podcast recommendations and bunch of other helpful thoughts.

It’s not Josh Bannister! Josh normally hosts Ordinary and chats to Mark and Graham each week, but this week is a little bit different. Abi Hateley, a member at Christ Church, is taking over the podcast with Sarah McQuaker and Keturah Adshead. A couple of weeks ago the guys did a podcast on purity before […]

We’re talking about friends on the podcast today. Not the 90’s sitcom – more the idea of friendship. Maybe you haven’t put a lot of thought into friendship from a Biblical point of view, but it turns out the Bible has a lot to say about friendship and it’s significance and importance Before that we […]

We’re getting literal on the podcast today. We’re discussing literary genre, how it applies to the Bible and to what extent it’s important to recognise what genre we’re reading when we’re reading it. We also have the Sunday roundup, and some mandatory football chat.

We’re a bit longer in today’s episode but that’s because stuffed wall-to-wall with great quality content for your earholes. First we start with a little catchup to do with Josh’s newborn baby. Then we have the Sunday roundup, then news, and then in the main section it’s all about whether sexual purity before marriage is […]

Paul is a massive historical figure in the history of the church, maybe second only to Jesus. This is undeiable both in the church and to secular historians. When Paul’s writings make up such as massive part of the new Testament it’s hard not to think deeply about Paul himself, and how to view his […]

Josh is on paternity leave, so this week Isaac Bannister has stepped in to talk to Graham Nicholls and Mark Ventham about Catholicism. For the Ordinary Christian, not brought up in the Catholic Church, Catholicism can be confusing. We share so many similarities with the Catholic Church, but we disagree on a lot too. In […]

What must I do to be saved? This is the theme of today’s main section. We’ll be talking about what is required to gain salvation – what things must I believe in order to be saved? It’s a really interesting question – how would you answer? But before the main bit we have a Sunday […]

A little bit of a throwback to the days of Ordinary Apologetics in our main section today – we’re going to be talking about the absurdity of life without God, arguing that if God does not exist then life is ultimately meaningless and without value. Before that we have the good old Sunday roundup, and […]

Some serious issues on the podcast today as we talk about assisted dying. It seems that this debate will flare up in the not-too-distant future, and so as Josh didn’t have particularly clear thoughts on the subject, he thought we should do a podcast on it. It was helpful for him, and hopefully it will […]

In today’s episode we talk about the problem of pornography in the context of last Sunday’s sermon on Matthew 5 v27, a passage about adultery and divorce. We reflect on those themes as well in the Sunday roundup, but before that a bit of lunch talk, and some news.

We’re talking about gifting in the main section today – how we can discern and use our gifts in the church. Graham will give us a roundup on anger which was the topic on Sunday morning at Christ Church and in the news section we reflect on the Covid situation in India.

We’re feeling fresh after an Easter break and today we’re talking about environmentalism in the main section. To what extent should Christians be involved in this discussion? Is it our duty as those commanded to care for our world and for our neighbours, to be leading the way on environmental issues. Lots more conversation on […]

We’re talking about the doctrine of inerrancy on the podcast today – whether or not the Bible contains any errors. We talk about the words of Jesus in the Bible, whether they are verbatim or more of a summary, some of the seemingly contradictory texts in the New Testament, and why inerrancy matters at all. […]

On the menu today is a little Sunday roundup focusing on the beatitudes. That will be followed up by a portion of news where we consider the court ruling in favour of churches in Scotland. And finally we’ll serve up a hearty main section on the reality of heaven and how it affects the now.

Great episode today! In fact the conversation was so good today that we went on for a bit longer than normal. Usually when we have guests on we record the intro to the podcast once the guest has left but in order to bring you this conversation in it’s entirety and not make the episode […]

Legalism is something we tend to associate with New Testament religious leaders, but of course legalism can very easily creep into our Christian mindset, and begin to unconsciously shape our attitude towards our behaviours and acts of service. Or, on the flip side, we can use grace as a permit to gain the freedom to […]

Last week we dealt with one of the great universals, doubt, and this week we’re tackling another, temptation. This one may be truly universal in the human experience, because even Jesus was tempted. Today we look at the biblical view of temptation – what is it, what it isn’t, whether it is unavoidable or irresistible, […]

Fear is one of those universals when it comes to human experience. We all feel fear – fear for our lives or the lives of others, fear of suffering, fear of embarrassment, fear of loneliness, the list goes on. How does our relationship with Jesus affect our feelings of fear? How should our relationship with […]

The Christian experience doesn’t always feel binary – there may be times where we struggle and wrestle with doubt. Is it ok to have doubts? Is it normal? Is it sinful to doubt? And how does doubt interact with the certainty we spoke about in episode 19? All this in the main section of the […]