Dave Burke

Senior Pastor - Bethany City Church Sunderland, England
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    • How we got the gospels
  •   Keswick 2008
    • Thoughtwise - post-modernism
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  • Guilt-free religion
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  • Who chooses who?
  •   Imagine a Kingdom...
    • Kingdoms in Conflict
    • A World of forgivenesss
    • It's a free world
    • Cornerstone or Millstone?
  •   Let's think about God
    • Don't steal God's identity
    • Don't ruin God's good name
    • God is creative
    • God is a Trinity
    • God is love!
    • Pontifex Maximus and minimus
    • Prayer in the Spirit
  •   Vision - seeing the future
    • Vision - craftsmen or cowboys?
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  •   Easter
    • The Day Death Died
    • In Christ alone
    • The Fatal Flaw in the Christian Faith
    • Loved with everlasting love
    • Everything he touches bursts into life
  • —    Psalms
    • Therapeutic Worship
    • Like Father like father
    • We're only human
    • Creation song
    • The sting in the tale
  •   Christmas
    • Advent (something is about to happen)
    • Imagine there's a heaven
    • Three words in a strange tongue
  •   How to share your faith
    • A matter of life and death
    • Just walk across the room
    • Persuaders, Ambassadors, Reconcilers
  •   Christian Spirituality
    • The secret of giving
    • The secret of forgiveness
    • Mens sana in corpore thingumy do dah
    • The secret treasure
    • Confessions of a Sabbath-breaker
  •   Talks to help pastors
    • What has God ever done for me?
    • Exodus - movement of the people
    • Well our feeble frame he knows
  •   Christian leadership
    • Who should lead God's people
    • From maintenance to mission
    • Turning the church inside-out
    • Eli - failure to lead
    • Jonathan - the leader who knew who to follow
    • Joab - the leader who wouldn't be led
    • Absalom, image over substance
  •   Sermon on the mount
    • The seal of approval
    • Living billboards
    • Radical surgery for sinners
    • What makes a marriage?
    • Anxiety
  •   Worship
    • A brief history of worship
    • In spirit and in truth
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  •   Mostly for people who are not yet Christians
    • The truth about atheism
    • Take Five
    • What would Jesus say to James Bond?
    • What would Jesus say to Keane?
    • What would Jesus say to Kate Moss?
    • The Syrian solider who went for a swim
    •   The Alpha Course
      • Christianity - boring, untrue and irrelevant?
      • Who is Jesus?
      • Why did Jesus die?
      • How can I be sure of my faith?
      • How does God guide?
      • Who is the Holy Spirit?
      • What does the Holy Spirit do?
      • How can I be filled with the Spirit?
  •   Life under pressure
    • A believer sings the blues
    • The tests of faith
    • What are you worth?
  •   Jonah
    • Jonah - it's not about the fish
  •   1 Peter
    • God's Gypsies
    • The Body Beautiful
    • Building with bananas
    • God that's not fair!
  •   Prophecy 101
    • Kob amar Adonai
    • Do not treat prophecies with contempt
    • The return of Christ
  •   A vision for the church
    • A sold out community
    • A Christ-centred community
    • A Credible community
  •   Prayer
    • Just do it!
    • The Kingdom
    • Bread
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  • We're only human

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  • The sting in the tale

 
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