Godfirst Cheltenham

As part of our Formed series, Howard encourages us to live the Bible story and to meet Jesus by learning to meditate on scripture.

Christopher worked through 2 Corinthians 3 and discussed how Paul says that the Spirit sets us free to increasingly become more like Jesus.

Howard talks about how we are formed out of our experiences. He spoke out of James 1 highlighting how God uses our pains, trials and sufferings to continually form us into the image of Jesus.

Tom Bradbury encourages greater followership of Jesus by assessing and minimising distractions caused by abuse and addiction to our phones and digital media.

Tom Bradbury encourages a focus and prioritisation on being and making disciples of Jesus by assessing and streamlining the unhelpful distractions through the us of our phones and digital media.

Christopher highlights that the gospel creates community and that the purpose of community is to create disciples who learn to obey the commands of scripture as well as live in the good and blessing of that community.

Sean Green from Reading Family Church (https://www.readingfamilychurch.org.uk/) encourages Godfirst and the Lead Couples to trust God and expect Him to do great things through the church as he preaches out of 2 Kings 13:14-21.

We are formed by the habits, routines and rituals of our lives. Paul in scripture encourages us to enter the strict training of athletes. Yet spiritual practises are not just training and effort like rowing but training and effort like sailors to catch the wind of God's Spirit.

Pete Cornford from Redeemer Church London, walks us through the story of Abraham and Isaac. Stirring us to faith like Abraham and showing us how this story is a picture of the Gospel.

Jesus offers us a stark choice, deny yourself, pour yourself out and you'll find true life, or grasp for a life of self, gain the whole world but lose yourself. When we know Jesus is the true treasure, to sacrifice everything for him is no loss.

Howard unpacks how we are formed, looking at 5 pathways, story, experiences, community, practices and loves.

Our failure to fulfil the Great Commission is due to the Great Omission: our failure to truly live our lives shaped as Jesus' disciples.

At our carol service, Howard talks about how birth helps us to understand the story of the world. Hope, suffering, darkness, pain, turns to joy and new life. This is the story of the nativity and the resurrection.

Howard continues his advent series on 'Emmanuel - God with us'. This week Howard tells us how Jesus has come to reconcile all things to the Father, and in doing so has reconciled people with people and eventually heaven and earth.

Advent series on 'Emmanuel - God with us' This week Howard walks us through Big Story of God's presence from Eden, Moses, Tabernacle, Temple, and Exile culminating in how all these threads find their fulfilment in Jesus Incarnate, Crucified, Risen.

Stan concludes the preaching series in the ‘Sermon on the Mount’ with a deeper look at what Jesus meant when He encouraged us to build our houses on the eternally unshakable rock.

Rigby Wallace who leads an Advance partner church in Cape Town served us excellently by preaching about the importance, value and means of living in the patience that the gospel brings.

Steve encourages us to press on with our prayer life as a church in light of the great promises Jesus made when calling us to be those who ask, seek and knock.

Christopher continues the Godfirst Church series in the 'Sermon on the Mount' with a look at what Jesus means when He says 'Do not judge, or you too will be judged', and how he encourages us to live in the light of that.

Howard continues the series on "Sermon on the Mount", looking at why we can trust God to look after all of our needs and how the gospel empowers us to lay down the anxieties that come with chasing idols.

Howard encourages us to live authentic lives, stop living to impress others and to take off our masks.

Howard continues the 'Sermon on the Mount' series, working through Matthew 5 : 27 - 32, with a particular look at Jesus' view on marriage, sexual desire and justice.

Howard continues the series of the 'Sermon on the Mount' with a look at Jesus' practical teaching of how to be a community of the kingdom. This week we look at 'Anger and forgiveness'.

Howard kicks off the new series in the 'Sermon on the Mount' with this look at the Beatitudes and how rather than being a high moral bar, they point to Jesus and the kind of people that the gospel will reach.

Steve looks at rebuilding fresh rhythms of prayer in our lives out of the story of Nehemiah.