Bridge Community Church Leeds

Mark Pugh, General Superintendent of Elim UK shares from Ephesians chapter 4. In a polarised world we are all to live lives 'worthy of our calling.. always being humble and gentle.' Mark asks us to consider a wider understanding of the Ephesians 4 gifts. How might entrepreneurs and visionaries carry apostolic gifting, how responding to injustice reveals the prophetic gift, seeing evangelistic gift...

It was 47 years ago that Pastor Dave Green became a friend of God. As Pastor Dave says: "The greatest thing in a human being's life is to be a friend with God." Pastor Dave uses a number of illustrations to explain how sin prevents us from being able to experience that friendship, creating a barrier between us and God. Jesus takes the catalogue of our sins on Himself, making open a way so that we...

"Our hearts are restless until they find rest in you. (Augustine of Hippo). Pastor Peter Clothier draws parallels between the idols Paul found in Athens, and the idols of our current generation. An idol is anything that claims to provide the fulfilment that only comes from God himself. Idols diminish us, whereas God frees us. Money and career can be blessings when they serve us, but demanding mast...

In the challenging and inspiring message, Pastor Bawa Leo shares the heart of God for mission. Throughout history, be it through liberation, migration, or strategic mission, God has been bringing His good news to the world. Pastor Bawa gives us the different ways we can ourselves spread, scatter, and share the Gospel, the character we need to support the credibility of the message, and how to over...

Pastor Jacqui Richmond encourages us to take up Jesus’s commission to Go and Tell - someone is waiting! Evangelism is a command, not a suggestion, and can be as easy as telling your story and trusting that God has put, within your sphere of influence, people who are ready to hear it. Evangelism is empowered by the Holy Spirit, so whatever we have to share, He is able to use. And evangelism is driv...

How do we take the word of God and so invest it in our children they become bearers of the church's heritage of faith, and its ongoing story, testifying to God's grace? Pastor Bawa shares how from Deuteronomy 6:6-9 and other scriptures. Discover how to take the word of God and impress it our our children, talking about it, packaging it in ways they can understand, so that it guides their way snd s...

Pastor Steve concludes our series on the big picture story of the Bible focusing on the church - how it came into being, what it is, its purpose, and its destiny. He reminds us that the church was birthed in the Spirit at Pentecost and continues to live and minister in the Spirit's power and leading. The church is in His Majesty's service - up to God for worship and adoration, in to the family of...

In series on the big story of the Bible, Pastor Steve left us last week at the end of Genesis 3 with mankind subject to the twin powers of sin and death. How will God now liberate His fallen creation. Pastor Steve takes us on a journey through the Old Testament covenants, division, exile, and restoration of the Israelite tribes, and the warnings and hopes of the Hebrew prophets. He shows how the s...

How do we explain the world as it is today with its moral and natural evils? Pastor Steve shows us how we all still face today the key issue of Genesis 3 - will we trust God and His boundaries or set our own? Pastor Steve explains where the devil came from, how he seeks to undermine God's work and His good creation, and what happens when we believe the devil rather than God - a broken relationship...

Pastor Steve explains that humans, uniquely, are made in the image of God. Discovering what it means to be made in His image, answers the question "What does it mean to be human?" This includes Representing, Relating, and Ruling. We represent God as His image bearers, carrying His presence living His values, and carrying the message of the Kingdom. We are made to be in relationship with God as wel...

Pastor Steve Riley continues the Bible’s account of history in six acts, with foundational teaching on sex and marriage. The Bible begins and ends with a marriage - Eve to Adam (with God the Father "giving the bride away!" and Christ's wedding to His church. In marriage two become one flesh - the couple start a new family the final responsibility for which rests with them. It's a life-long, monoga...

Pastor Steve begins the Bible’s account of history in six acts. The drama of redemption history is founded in Genesis 1-3. God is eternal, He is great and He is good. God created everything, including us. Creation itself, though its beauty and complexity, points to its intelligent Creator. God has the first word, sustains the universe by His continuing word, and will have the last word on history...

What happened on the cross? What does it mean for me? How should I respond? Pastor Bawa shows how the cross is God's answer to the pollution and penalty of sin, and the sinful self that connives with Satan to steal, kill and destroy what God has made. Beyond the sinful nature is a world system set up to resist God’s plans. It destroys the works of the devil, strips away his power and disarms power...

How do you see work? A nuisance? A necessity? How does God want us to see work? Leigh Richmond shows us God's view of work through three lenses. From creation we see God always intended us to work - there was work in Eden. Through redemption we do all our work for the Lord. Through mission, we understand that work is part of God's plan to bring wellbeing and wholeness to the places where we live....

Anthony Jeremy, Lead Pastor of Festival Church Towyn is our speaker on the ninth anniversary of our move to the BCC site. In what are you rooted? Is it your career, or even your church? What does it mean to be rooted in Jesus, with our roots going deeply into His love, from whence we are strengthened by the Holy Spirit. Anthony shares experiences of prophetic revelation, healing, and God's comfort...

On Pentecost Sunday, Pastor Bawa describes the world of the Holy Spirt in us. The Spirit is a Person who indwells in each of us - the same Person who has, or does, indwell every other believer. The Spirit comes to fill us and lead us, so our response is to be open to His continuous, gradual, consistent and empowering presence. Led by the Spirit, living in obedience to Him, we receive spiritual und...

God is faithful. He is generous, and His gospel is powerful. Lisa Lenton shares her story of God's faithfulness to her in the face of a major health challenge. Pastor Andy Lenton shares wisdom and encouragement from Jesus's parables about seeds. He takes us to the scene where Jesus speaks from the natural amphitheatre of a lake. We see the generosity of God, sharing His word even where it will not...

Pastor Steve shares from two Psalms, occasioned by two contrasting seasons in the life of king David. It's probably easy to sing with the victory of Psalm 21, but what do we do in the season of trial and lamentation? From Psalm 13 we learn that it’s OK to ask God “Why?” and “How long?”. We learn how to use the words of the Psalms to lament, confident that God’s Spirit works in us with and through...

Communion Pastor Steve takes us back to when Jesus introduces the new covenant meal that we call communion. Sharing from the Gospels and Paul’s writings, Pastor Steve shows how this celebration looks back to Jesus and the physical reality of His passion. In the bread and wine Jesus meets us in the present - His risen presence can be encountered in a special way. And we look to the future - to the...

"The risen Lord Jesus wants you to want to know Him better." Pastor Dave Green invites us to respond to Jesus' call to know him more, not as a a figure in history but as our risen Lord and Saviour. He can meet you - whether you are on the Emmaus road - confused and disheartened, on the Damascus Road, angry and vengeful, or just wanting to walk the narrow road of discipleship. Through songs, quotes...

Continuing our journey through Jesus's Passion Week, Pastor Jacqui gives us insights into the Lord's journey into Jerusalem. We discover why He rode in on a donkey, what the crowds were saying when they shouted "Hallelujah!" and how Old Testament prophecies shed further light on these events. Pastor Jacqui shares her own moving story of how the Lord met with and supported her through a massive cha...

Today we celebrate 32 years of the pastoral ministry of Pastor Andy Lancaster and Melanie Lancaster. Drawing on Andy and Mel’s example, Pastor Peter Clothier reminds us that we show love to God by loving His people, and that God notices, remembers, and values all our acts of service, sacrifice and devotion. Peter encourages us to hold fast to our salvation, firmly grounded on Jesus and His sacrifi...

Karen Green shares what being a Christian means to her, and what it can mean to you - crossing over from death to life. The new life Jesus calls us to accept, is one of forgiveness, freedom, direction, purpose through service, and a life free from shame. It's one where everything is to be thankful for. Whilst Jesus does what we can't do for ourselves, and whilst God's love seeks us out, Karen remi...

If you were the most famous person who ever lived, what kind of people would you want to follow you? Successful people? Rich people? People of good reputation? Would it surprise you to know that Jesus called people not because of who they were, but because of who they could become by following him? Pastor Andy shows how Jesus called those who needed his forgiveness and healing and the price he was...

Whilst we are called out of the world we are also sent into it. Pastor Steve shares how we are compelled to mission by the love of Christ, convinced both that all are separated by sin and that Christ’s death is effective for all, and commissioned as citizens of heaven and ambassadors of the king. We can point people to Jesus by offering to pray when they share personal challenges and ask, over tim...