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This week we follow the story of the people of God during the exilic period. There is no book in the Bible that talks about this period. Ezekiel’s prophesied during this period, so you may want to skim the book to get an idea of God’s message to the exiles. The story for the post-exilic period is in the books of EZRA and NEHEMIAH, which together form our core reading for this week. You may also want to browse through HAGGAI, ZACHARIAH and MALACHI. The story told in the book of DANIEL is placed towards the end of Judah and beginning of the Babylonian exile. We will move on to the story in the New Testament next week but there is a gap of nearly four centuries between the close of the story we see in the Old Testament and Jesus’ time in the Gospels. As we have no biblical account for this period, I have provided some notes about this period. Hope this will help you to smoothly move on to the New Testament times.

In January 2019 Bishop Paul published his book the Table, based on the sermon he delivered when he was installed as Bishop of Liverpool. In February 2019 he took part in a series of Lent Conversations about it in Liverpool Cathedral. Here we show the videos from week one.

In this section, you'll look at the importance of waiting as a means of growing as a Christian.

Helping you to grow as a disciple is much more than gaining knowledge, it’s about learning to be like Jesus. As part of your journey, you could try self-examination, being honest and open with yourself with God present.

Learning to be like Jesus is something you must be deliberate about. It isn’t just going to happen. Writing a journal or journaling may help.

Have you come across the concept of a learning cycle? It’s used in many education and work-based settings to encourage individuals and organisations to learn from events or their experience and to make progress.

Many of us think of learning as acquiring knowledge, assuming this process just involves the head. Taking on facts, figures and skills so we ‘know’ more or better.

We’re called to pray, and called to read.. In the first instance called to pray the Lord’s Prayer, and to read Holy Scripture. As a daily rule, these things are often - though not always - solitary activities. But when I speak of being called to learn I’m pointing to something that happens in community.