The word 'church' barely appears in the synoptic gospels. Focusing on Matthew 16.13–20, Ian Wallis examines why this is the case before exploring what this passage reveals about the church community behind this Gospel.

Pentecost is the festival celebrated fifty days after Easter. It commemorates the moment the followers of Jesus received the gift of the Holy Spirit, evoked in our readings as a rushing wind or as tongues of fire. Ian Wallis reflects on how something intangible can also be a life-changing experience

Our Lent course this year has focused on social justice. On this Passion Sunday, the fifth Sunday in Lent and the beginning of Passiontide, Ian Wallis examines the issue of social fragmentation.

What is the premier commandment? That is the question that Jesus is asked by a scribe in the Temple at Jerusalem. Ian Wallis takes us to what Jews of Jesus' time would have understood as the answer to that question, and why Jesus' answer, linking loving God with loving our neighbour, is so radically different. That provides the platform for our forthcoming Lent study groups.

This Sunday marks the end of the week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Ian Wallis suggests 'symphony' might be a helpful and biblically-inspired analogy.

Epiphany is the festival celebrating the Coming of the Magi. Ian Wallis invites us to consider not who they were, but what is their significance

Out of the Box is a Sheffield organisation that uses stories as a method of encouraging us to think and talk about things in a fresh way. Ian Wallis talks to Katie Caroe about its aims and work by way of introducing one such story - one that this recording keeps 'in the box' for another day.

We are in the Season of Creationtide. Ian Wallis focuses on the moment when Christ overturns the tables of traders on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. There is a moment, he says, when 'lament's tears give way to lament's rage, passive suffering to active protest'. That is when hope is born, and new possibilities emerge.

The Revd Ian Wallis takes us to the mountain-top perspective of Jesus’ Transformation, the fulcrum moment in Jesus’ ministry. It enables us also to see God in our own lives.