Dave Burke

Senior Pastor - Bethany City Church Sunderland, England
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Daves Talks
  • Jump-starting Timothy
  •   Extreme Church
    • The Gift of Tongues
    • Jesus Freaks hit the Streets
    • A revolution of love
    • God kicks his kids out
    • The cure for Christian racism
    • Conflict Resolution for Dummies
    • The Gift of Prophecy
  •   Revelation
    • What does Jesus look like?
    • Postcards from Patmos
    • The Lion & the Lamb
    • Harvest Time
    • Behold the Victory
  • Love is...
  • Three Secrets
  •   Living with Luke
    • How we got the gospels
  •   Keswick 2008
    • Thoughtwise - post-modernism
    • Familywise
  • Guilt-free religion
  • Living by the Spirit
  • 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?
    • Vision - the way ahead
    • Vision - how are YOU doing?
    • Partnership
  •   The Apprentice
    • The Call
    • The Toolbox
    • The big difference
    • Changing your mind
  •   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
    • Sacrifice
    • A passion for God
  •   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
    • Follow
Current Issues
  • Abolishing the slave trade
  • The Miracles of Jesus
  • Jesus and divorce
  • The Da Vinci Code
  • If God is good why is there so much suffering?
  • Evolution is a fact, right?
  • There's probably no God
  • The Truth about Pornography
Quotations
  • Quotes about worship
  • Quotes about pride
  • Quotes about your identity
  • Quotes about vision
  • Christians observed by those who are not
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  • The basics of slide design
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  • Bible research

    Links I use a lot
    • Early Christian Writings
      Just about every document up to 250 AD
    • Bible.org
      Huge site with good content
    • Bible Gateway
      All the translations free and online!
    • bethinking
      Apologetics megasite - I help edit this
    • Bishop Tom Wrights website
      Scholarship from the top!

  • Culture and comment

    Sites to provoke thought
    • Arts and letters daily
      This site monitors the serious press worldwide
    • Damaris
      Christian resources for those interested in culture
    • Ship of Fools
      Sarcasm, cynicism, and sharp comment - it's here

  • Writing tools

    • Thinkmap - a visual thesaurus
      This will give you synonyms to any word as a mind map
    • How to do desktop publishing
      Huge resource site
    • Dr Grammar
      Answers to all your questions about grammar

  • Bethany Churches

    Our fellowship and our mothership!
    • Bethany City Church
      The church for people who don't go to church
    • Bethany Christian Centre, Houghton le Spring
      The mothership!

  • Leading worship

    Advice and encouragement
    • Meadows Community church - Leicester
      Advice and encoragement for people who lead worship

  • Interesting people

    Christians worth watching and listening to
    • Eddie and Sue
      A dynamic couple with Wycliffe Bible Translators
    • Patrick Dixon
      A futurologist working with business and the media
    • David Niblack
      A beautiful site with some theology plus free photos and PowerPoint backgrounds

  • Picture libraries

    High quality photos and pictures free and cheap
    • i stock.xchng
      Big site, nice pictures, free
    • Stockxpert
      Huge site with wonderful pictures quite cheap
    • iStockphoto
      You pay for these, but not very much

  • BBC Wearside

    I contribute to ths regularly - follow the links!
    • St George of... England?
      Why I love St George
    • The Da vinci con
      Guess what this is about!
    • Time travel on the cheap
      Somewhere to to go next time you visit London
    • The Miracles of Jesus
      Brief review of the BBC documentary
 
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