Godfirst Cheltenham

What are the Vital Signs of healthy Christians and healthy church? Journey with Godfirst as we take our spiritual pulse on everything from knowing Jesus, our communities, and our mission, to handling our money and our time.

Faith waits where unbelief is impatience. Unbelief breeds cynicism, blame and creates passivity and fear. Faith energizes and makes us bold. Faith lives in the momentous light of eternity, unbelief loses itself in the momentary nature of small things.

Howard walks us through his church planting experience and looks at how changing culture has led him to radically different approaches to church planting. Where does Godfirst plot on the Attractional or Everyday Church axis.

So what is the shape of Godfirst church? How can we live as a community of disciples on a mission; a family of servant missionaries?

At the start of the New Year Howard encourages us from Zechariah to be strong and build on the foundation that has been laid at Godfirst. Sharing God's zeal, sharing our lives and sharing the gospel.

How do we react when God says no? However so often when God says no he has something far greater for us. David is not going to build a house for God because God is building a house for him.

When you have received grace from God you will find yourself asking the question David asked "is there anyone to who i can show loving kindness?

Human life is amazing, it looks as if the universe knew we were coming. We are not here by chance but we are hand crafted and loved by God and that makes you so special. Baby Dedication.

It's the weight of small things that tip the scale, it that look, that becomes a thought, that becomes an action that brings a king to his knees. But it's vast glorious the amazing grace of God that restores.

The 23rd Psalm The Lord is my shepherd fills us with the images of green pastures and feasts, but Paul wonderfully shows how this Eden song comes to us only through the song of suffering one of 22nd Psalm. A must listen!

What is the story of David and Goliath really about? It's it really about search for the hero inside yourself and defeat your giants; OR is it truly about Jesus, the greater David, who gives us the victory over Satan, Sin and Death?

Howard draws out the true meaning of friendship from the story of David and Jonathan. The true friendship that points to Jesus' relationship with his church.

What do you do when everything in your life - your dreams and hopes, seem to be coming to nothing? Journey with David in to the Cave of Adullam and discover hope in the darkest moments.

The truth is that most people quit on their dreams when things get tough. Yet David has an unrelenting passion for the gospel and his God honoring dreams.

Matt Hatch kicks of our 2015 weekender talks on Disciple Making by tell us the tale of two trees.

In his second talk from 2015 Weekender Matt helps us to recognize those hearts moments learn to repent and renounce unchristlike roots and apply spiritual disciplines to bring transformation.

In his third brilliant session from 2015 Weekender Matt asks us to examine our hearts and allow the truth of the Gospel, and God as Father to dismantle the lies we believe about God and ourselves

In his fourth Session of the 2015 Weekender, Matt gives us practical ways we can live as fruitful disciples on mission. "Those with changed hearts change nations."

In Mark 3 we find Jesus redefining both nation and family. In Jesus we are born of God into a new family. Howard explains how the negative influences of our natural families need to be re-parented as we disciple each other as a church family.

Paul challenges us to die to a life as material and spiritual consumers and live as disciples of Jesus, as servant missionaries.

Jairus' daughter is on the verge of death but Jesus waits and turns aside to a women who has touched him. What do we do when Jesus' timing is way out of line with ours?

We end up building walls and drawing circles and including us and excluding them. Here we find Jesus sets his disciples a practical Us and Them test, in which they fail to find their voice and pull down the barriers between Us and Them

Mark's use of Jesus' two stage healing of the blind man and Peter's confession of Jesus as Messiah illustrates that if you don't see Messiah-ship as the way of the cross then you will never be a disciple of Jesus.

So often we put God in a box because to encounter him in worship is scary, so we create religious structures to keep him at a distance. We need to understand Jesus is with us by his spirit, and we are to be hungry to meet him in worship

When we weigh money in one hand and Jesus in the other what choices do we make - not in theory but in how it affects our bank statements? How much does Jesus self giving on the cross move you? A few pounds? 10%?