Breathe New Life Podcast

In the final week of his 3-part message on the promises of God, Paul Jukes talks about ‘Recovery and renewal’. Genesis 3 (6-10). God teaches that we can renew our covering through him, even when our spirit has been damaged and hurt. Rather than try and cover our mess ourselves, God removes our sin and reminds us that we are good enough. He has created a way out of sin and shame and paid the ultima...

In the second week of his 3-part message on the promises of God, Paul Jukes brings a message titled, ‘The Love of the Father’ based on the parable in Luke 15:15-24. God wants to restore our spirit through Jesus and God provides recovery as part of the restoration. God restores our dignity, identity, and authority and wants us to understand who we are as His children. He provides protection and pro...

In the first week of his 3-part message on the promises of God, Paul Jukes brings a message about God being a pursuer of his promise, and like a shepherd searches for his sheep, God is pursuing you. Jesus came to find you and always makes sure his promises are fulfilled because God wants you to trust him. Firstly, God promises to rescue you like he rescued the lost son (Luke 15: 20-24), and God pr...

Kicking off our series on the Promises of God, Sara Jukes provides an introduction and overview of 'The Power of Promise.' God is the ultimate promise-keeper and the cross is the most outstanding act of faithfulness, yet the first step for us all in understanding this is to understand the power that broken promises can have over our lives. We all need to start from a place of forgiveness, grace an...

On the final week of our ONE series, Tim Davies brings a message on the ‘power of relationships with one another’. This message defines relationship as “the connection between two or more people or things and how they interact with others.” There are three types of relationships, most importantly our relationship with God, then our relationship with self, and finally, our relationship with others....

On the fourth week of our ONE series, Paul Jukes brings a message on the power of oneness with God. God wants to bless us like he blessed Joshua in 2:24. But first, we must consider Exodus 33:1-2 and consider what false Gods we have hidden in “high places”. False Gods like beauty that fades, family, or places of comfort where we can hide away from challenges. This message reminds us of a God that...

On the third week, of our ONE series, Sara Jukes brings a message on The Power Of One, reminding us that the ONE, that we need, Jesus, is always with us and he is in the fire along with us. We can see in Daniel 3:16-30 that there was ANOTHER, in the fire with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Sara reminds us that we have Jesus with us in our fire. Sara shares with us that, we can break chains of fir...

Continuing with our ONE series about unity, Ben Hodgson preached a message on financial unity titled, 'mONEy'. Acts 4:32 says that, "All the believers were ONE in heart and mind" and those early disciples, "shared everything they had." How can we - the 21st Century Church - be unified given that we are all so different in our attitudes, preferences and skillsets towards money? In this message, Ben...

Starting a series on unity, Paul Jukes preached a message titled, 'Working out our Oneness' on Sunday 2nd May. We all desire it, but it is clear that unity takes time, sacrifice and commitment which we don't desire. Many of us fear the loss of our freedom, our individualism and our control, yet, we experience something deeper when we commit to one another. Speaking from Song of Solomon, Paul Jukes...

In this message, Sara Jukes asks the question, 'What are you listening to?' Sometimes it can be really hard to hear the positive in a world of negativity; it can be hard to hear hope in a world of despair. But what does God want you to hear and are we listening to it? In Acts 16, we find Paul and Silas in prison, punished unfairly. We read that they were 'undaunted' by their situation and were hea...

Luke Eicher - Lead Pastor of Grace, Sturgis, (Michigan, USA)- shared a message titled, 'Blessed are the Meek' which is a direct quote from Matthew 5:5 which concludes with the promise, "for they will inherit the earth." In the bible, meekness is to be "pursued" (1 Timothy 6:11), to be "put on" (Colossians 2:12), to be "walked out" (Ephesians 4:2) and is a Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). I...

Speaking on the subject of Listening, Ben Hodgson, shares a message titled, 'Listen Quick; Speak Slow' derived from the memorable verse in James 1:19 which says, "You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry." Starting with the third point, 'slow to get angry', Ben offers practical advice and wisdom on how to manage anger, how to be slow to speak and how to listen with the...

In this Easter Sunday message, Paul Jukes looks at John's account, in chapter 20 in which Mary arrives at the empty tomb to find Jesus no longer there, only for an angel to ask her the seemingly obvious question, 'who are you looking for?' The same question applies to us today, who are we looking for? Paul asks the important question, why did God raise Jesus from the dead? The resurrection brought...

Like it says in Psalm 107, "let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story", Tim Davies encourages us to share our testimony and to tell our story. Reading this Psalm, we discover three ingredients that make up a powerful, everyday testimony; gratitude to God for what He has done, a demonstration of the goodness of God in our lives and a reliance on His love that endures forever. Tim points out tha...

Speaking on outreach, Paul Jukes shares a message on Genesis 24 in which a servant of the master Abraham goes in search of a bride for his son Isaac. As they stop for a drink at a well, they meet Rebekah who was looking for an opportunity not in the form of a big event but an everyday task! She responds quickly and takes the initiative to draw water for the ten camels too! In doing so, she passed...

On Mothering Sunday, Sara Jukes continued our 'Far Reaching' series, with a message titled, 'Far Reaching Starts at Home'. Drawing inspiration from two women in the bible - Mary Magdalene (John 20:1-2) and Jedidah (2 Kings 22:1-2) - Sara encourages us to believe again, to believe in ourselves and to believe in in what God is doing in and through us. In addition, Sara reminds us of the power of a p...

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Continuing our 2021 vision series, Paul Jukes preached a message titled, 'Standing in the River.' In Joshua chapter 3, we read about the Israelites who were able to safely cross the Jordan river whilst the water stood up like a wall, leaving the dry riverbed exposed to create a path for the Priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant to go first and the people to follow about half a mile behind. In t...

In part two of this message titled, 'Stand', Sara Jukes focuses on the final two 'stands' that Paul first introduced on Vision Sunday; stand out and stand up for others. These five 'stands' relate to the five aspects of our church vision of multitudes of trees planted by a river; Jesus Centred, Rooted, Together, Broad and Far Reaching. In Ezekiel 37, the prophet Ezekiel sees a vision of a valley o...

In the first of a two-part message titled, 'Stand', Sara Jukes unpacks the vision focus for the year. Sara highlights the first three ways in which we are to stand during 2021 which Paul first shared as our focus for the year on Vision Sunday in January. These five 'stands' relate to the five aspects of our church vision of multitudes of trees planted by a river; Jesus Centred, Rooted, Together, B...

Following last Sunday's Vision Sunday message titled, 'Stand', Paul Jukes follows-up with an Offering Sunday message titled, 'We Are One.' In John 17, Jesus prays for all believers that they would be "one" in the same way that He and Father God are "one". As it says in Galatians 3:28, "we are all one in Christ Jesus." In this message Paul talks about three ways in which we - as a Church - are all...

On Vision Sunday 2021, Paul Jukes preached a message titled, 'Stand' which is the key word for our vision focus this year. As it says in Romans 8:33, "God himself has given us right standing", therefore this year, we are to stand with Jesus who gives us "overwhelming victory!" We are also to stand on His promises, stand together, stand out and stand up for others. Jesus stood up for a woman caught...

Ben Hodgson continues our 3-part review of our Core Values by preaching a message on kindness. If Jesus is both fully God and fully human, he must have experienced the same challenges that we have when it comes to being kind! Using the famous passage in John 4, in which Jesus meets the Woman at the Well, Ben unpacks three top tips for How to be Kind. Like Jesus, we should walk in other people's sh...

Steff Hodgson continues our 3-part review of our Core Values by preaching a message on freedom. In this message, Steff makes the very valid claim that God’s boundaries are part of his design for you to live free! Using the illustration of a parent giving their child ground rules before playing in the park, Steff rightly says that freedom is only freedom when it is safe. Like a parent, God wants us...

Sara Jukes begins our 3-part review of our three Core Values by preaching a message on passion. The Passion of the Christ is a concept that most of us will be familiar with but did you know that it also appears in the dictionary definition of the word, 'passion'?! Referring to Jesus' birth, life, death and resurrection, Philippians 2:6-11 makes it clear that the Passion of the Christ was driven by...