Freedom Church Romford

This message explores one of Jesus’ most powerful parables, often called The Prodigal Son, but more fittingly The Parable of the Two Sons. In Luke 15, Jesus tells three stories of what was lost and then found—the sheep, the coin, and finally, the sons—revealing God’s relentless heart for people. Through the rebellion of the younger son and the resentment of the older, we see that both are lost in...

What does it mean to truly be a unified church? In this preach, Dave unpacks Paul’s powerful call to unity from Ephesians 4:1–6 and shows how humility, gentleness, patience and love form the foundation of a Spirit-led community. Unity is not uniformity, nor is it optional; it is central to the gospel we proclaim. This talk explores: • The manner and means of unity, how we live out humility, gentle...

Today we were celebrating Freedom Church's first birthday. Here's what some of us had to say about the last year.

As we continue our Practising the Way journey, this week we explore one of the most vital aspects of following Jesus: doing it together. From the earliest days of His ministry, Jesus called people not just to Himself, but to one another. Discipleship was never meant to be a solo mission—it’s a shared life, marked by depth, vulnerability, and a commitment to transformation. Drawing from Jesus’ exam...

This week Freedom Church visited City Church Canterbury, along with 8 other churches, for our Relational Mission Community Day. In this moving talk, John Kirkby — founder of Christians Against Poverty and leader of the Isaiah 61 movement — shares his personal story of transformation: from a lost, broken man living in deep debt and despair, to a life turned around by the kindness of a stranger, the...

Practising the Way 6 - Rule of Life Over the past few weeks, we’ve been journeying through Practising the Way together, exploring what it means to truly follow Jesus. So far, we’ve looked at following Jesus, formation, spiritual practices, meeting God in pain and suffering, and last week Hugh shared about healing from sin. This week, we turn our attention to the idea of a Rule of Life. While not a...

Practising the Way 5 - Healing from Sin Sin is not just wrongdoing, but a distortion of our desires and a rupture in our relationship with God and others. Jesus offers healing and freedom from sin through confession, repentance, and grace-fueled transformation. In this sermon, guest speaker Hugh Pearce—an elder at Redeemer Church Colchester—shares from Luke 5:27–32, exploring the themes of sin don...

Practising the Way 4: Meeting God in Pain and Suffering This reality is that following Jesus does not exempt us from suffering, but invites us to meet God in the midst of it. Rosie Carter shares that through practices of lament, trust, and perseverance, we learn to encounter Jesus' comfort and transformative presence in our pain. This sermon also contains a moving testimony from a couple called Ja...

Practising the Way 3 – Do as Jesus Did This week, Kathryn Bailey from The City Church Canterbury speaks on what it means to Do as Jesus Did, focusing on Matthew 28:16–20. The practices of Jesus are essential to our spiritual formation. They are how we do what we can do—Sabbath, prayer, reading Scripture—to make space for God to transform us into the kind of people who can do what we currently cann...

Drawing from John 15:1-9, Luke 6:39-40 and John Mark Comer’s *Practicing the Way*, this preach explores the deep spiritual truth that transformation doesn’t come through striving harder, but through *abiding deeper* in Christ. Spiritual formation is intentional, not accidental. Jesus calls us not just to do things *for* Him, but to be *with* Him. Abiding in Christ is the foundation of becoming lik...

On Sunday, we explored what it truly means to follow Jesus—not just in belief but in practice. His call to “Come, follow me” (Matt. 4:19) is an invitation to a lifelong apprenticeship. From Mark 8:34–37 and John Mark Comer’s Practicing the Way, we learned that discipleship means denying ourselves, taking up our cross, and centering our lives around 3 goals: 1.⁠ ⁠Be with Jesus 2.⁠ ⁠Become like Jesu...