Sermon Series
LOOKING BEYOND THE MESS
STUDIES IN HABAKKUK
Sunday Evenings September 2025
Habakkuk wrestles with God as it seems his prayers for God to act against Judah’s many sins have fallen on deaf ears. He learns to look beyond the mess around him to see how God is at work for his glory and the good of his people.
Series available on our YouTube channel from 8th September 2025
Bible reading schedule
7 Sep Habakkuk 1:1-4
14 Sep Habakkuk 1:5-21
21 Sep Habakkuk 2:2-20
28 Sep Habakkuk 3:1-19
Resources for this series
Books
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What God is Up To in the Silence
Ste Casey addresses the disappointment that comes when life seems to go from bad to worse despite our fervent prayers for change.
When pain and disappointment shrink our world to the size of what’s troubling us, we can easily miss what’s right in front of us—our God and his daily grace. Pastor and counselor Ste Casey reminds readers that although our worries, fears, and suffering can fill our minds, the truth is that God is still watching, keeping, caring, hearing, and speaking to us, even in the silence.
I Prayed and Nothing Changed will challenge you to be honest as you talk to God about your struggles in our messed-up world. Casey points readers to see all that God is doing, even when he seems distant, and encourages readers with specific ways we can see God at work in the silence.
Practical, accessible, spiritual guidance on disappointment with prayer written by a pastor and experienced counselor.
Part of the Ask the Christian Counselor series, walking readers through their deepest and most profound questions.
Gives readers the tools to understand their struggle with waiting on change and how the gospel brings hope and healing.
Compact format goes deeper than New Growth Press’s popular minibooks without overwhelming the reader.
Ste Casey is the pastor of Speke Baptist Church, Liverpool, UK and on the Executive Committee of Biblical Counselling UK and leads the Certificate Course in Liverpool together with his wife, Jane. He and his wife have six daughters and live in Central Speke.
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The Bible Speaks Today
Joel, Micah and Habakkuk - these ancient prophets have urgent relevance for a church and world at the beginning of a new millennium. They emphasise the life-or-death importance of listening to what God has to say, in times of disaster, disobedience and destruction.
- Joel, facing the bleakness of national disaster, anticipates a future outpouring of God's Spirit.
- Micah declares that God's punishment for wickedness is certain and just, but that he will preserve a faithful remnant.
- Finally, facing imminent destruction of the city, the land and the people, Habakkuk remains sure that God's hidden purposes are being worked out.
These prophets stood in their marketplace, powerfully applying their messages from God. David Prior shows that, like them, the church needs to be willing to share God's word in today's marketplace. Only this stand will bring hope, rather than despair, to a society under God's judgment.
The Bible Speaks Today series covers every book of the Old and New Testaments, as well as Bible themes that run through the whole of Scripture. These revised editions are redesigned inside and out and have been sensitively updated with contemporary language and Bible translations to help you follow, study and teach the Bible in today's world.
