Light and Life, UK

Welcome to the second message in our new series, Cultivating Character looking at the book of Daniel. In this message, Pastor Dan explores what it means to have INTERGIRY, following the example of Daniel in Chapter 1. We are encouraged that INTERGRITY is more than an action or character trait, it is a full surrender to Jesus in everything we do - both in the snap decisions and the predetermined &#...

Welcome to the first in our new series looking at the book of Daniel. The series is titled Cultivating Character, and in this first message, Pastor Stephen explores what it means to cultivate our character, how we can partner with the Holy Spirit in cultivating our hearts and how we can journey towards sanctification. We hear about the example of Daniel in choosing Godly character over compromise;...

Welcome to our EASTER SUNDAY service! He is risen! A great message from Pastor Jonny with two parts: It Is Finished and Good News. We are reminded in this message that, whatever the mess we are in, whatever the mess we have been left with, whatever the mess we have made for ourselves, Jesus says, "IT IS FINISHED." He has dealt with it. How do we know? Because Jesus didn't just die, H...

Thanks for joining us in the next message of our series, Apprenticeship with Jesus. This message is entitled, Do What Jesus Did and Pastor Chris shares with us about not only the day to day things in Jesus' life but also the tough sacrifice He chose to make on the cross. We are called to take up our cross every day and give our lives to Him afresh each day. This is a sacrifice and one we are r...

Here is the second message in our series, Apprenticeship with Jesus and we have a guest speaker, Mark Marx sharing with us. Mark founded the international Healing on the Streets movement and has travelled all over the globe sharing the gospel. In today's message, Mark shares about how we can BECOME LIKE JESUS. He tells us that we can only become like Jesus by BEING WITH JESUS and we must under...

We are excited to welcome you to a new series called Apprenticeship with Jesus in which we will explore how to become better disciples. In this first message, Pastor Jonny shares with us how we must BE WITH JESUS to become like Him and to become a better disciple of Him. Pastor Jonny references a video which has been cut for copyright reasons, however you can find the video at this link: https://w...

Welcome to this message by guest speaker, Pastor Dave Scholes. Dave is another Free Methodist pastor and speak to us this week on working through our own strength (vanity) versus beginning all we do with a fear of the Lord. Pastor Dave brought this message from Psalms 127 and 128 in which we are challenged not to work in vanity but in a fear of the Lord - our work can either lead to the "brea...

Welcome to this standalone message on breaking free from addiction. In this episode, Pastor Jonny shares how we can be a transformational community for those struggling with substance misuse and explores why we abstain from illicit substances. We heard that "it is for freedom that we are set free." We have not been given salvation and freedom only to be chained by addictions in our lives...

Welcome to the final episode in our Finance February series and in this message, Pastor Jonny explores why we need to live with margin in our finances: so that we can live on mission. Pastor Jonny talked about the 'consumption assumption' - a concept where we assume that all our resources are there for our own benefit. Actually, we are blessed to be a blessing and the resources we are give...

Welcome to the second week in our series, Finance February. In this message, Pastor Jonny speaks about inheritance and tells us that the best inheritance you can leave your children is a knowledge of, and relationship with, Jesus. Additionally, he takes us through some helpful practical ways in which we can be good stewards of our resources and finances when we do die and how we can set up those l...

Welcome to the first message in our annual February series: Finance February. Did you know that money was one of the top things Jesus spoke about in scriptures? Not because He thinks money is important but because He knows how important we think money is. In this message, Pastor Jonny takes us through the three key biblical principles for 'Building Wealth.' 1) Earn money, 2) Don't wast...

Welcome to this week's message from Light and Life! In this message entitled "There Is More," Pastor Jonny Leech reminds us that God can deliver so much more than our wildest expectations and urged us to get out our clay jars because God can fill them and more! We loved hearing that there is always more with God and being challenged to pray salvation over a specific person God has pu...

Welcome to the next message in our January series, 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting. We're so glad you're here! In this message, we hear from our Spiritual Formation Pastor, Chris Banwell, who explores what the Bible says about fasting and how we can include fasting in our routines. Pastor Chris talks through different types of fasts we read about in the Bible with the what, how and why of fa...

Welcome to the next message in our January series, 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting. We're so glad you're here! In this message, we hear from the Free Methodist UK Prayer Leader, Pastor Esther Scholes, who explores what the Bible says about prayer and how we can bring some structure and focus to our prayer life. We were encouraged that, whilst we can't really pray 'incorrectly,' t...

Welcome to the first message in our January series, beginning our 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting. We're so glad you're here! In this message, Pastor Jonny explored the 'Why?' of this season we have at the beginning of each year. He shared with us the story of Hannah and Samuel and talked about how Hannah, in her time of desperate need, got close to God, listened to Him and then, whe...

Welcome to the third message in our Christmas series, Come See Jesus. We're so glad you're here! In this message, Pastor Chris spoke on JOY. He talked about how Jesus is our greatest example of living in the JOY of the Lord; he shared with us the JOY that we can experience through knowing Jesus - whatever the circumstances around us. Ps Chris talked about the incredible JOY that it brings...

Welcome to the second message in our Christmas series, Come See Jesus. We're so glad you're here! In this message, Pastor Stephen explored what the Bible says about PEACE and spoke on the peace of Jesus and the 'perfect peace' that is available to us as we fix our minds on Him. We were encouraged to step into the peace of Jesus through: 1) KNOWING Him 2) TRUSTING Him 3) BEING WITH...

Welcome to the first episode in a new series as we enter the build up to Christmas. Our new series is called Come See Jesus and in this message, Pastor Jonny speaks about Hope. He spoke about Hope being a person, and that person is Jesus. He said that hope is not based on circumstances but on the person of Jesus. Our hope is built on Jesus - if you build your hope on anyone else, they will ultimat...

This is the final week of our series, Stories Jesus Told. In this episode, Pastor Jonny Leech shares on the story of The Rich Farmer. Following a move of the Spirit during our worship time, Pastor Jonny's message takes a slightly different angle and we are encouraged to: 1) Not worry about the future - God gives us new mercies every day so we should trust in Him day by day. 2) Be ready - eithe...

Welcome to the fourth week and the next instalment in our series, Stories Jesus Told. In this episode, Pastor Stephen Baines shares on The Hidden Treasure and The Precious Pearl. Stephen highlighted that the people in these parables had to sell everything in order to inherit the treasure and focused in on the cost of being a disciple, or follower, of Jesus. We were encouraged to give everything ov...

Welcome to the third week of our series, Stories Jesus Told. In this episode, our guest speaker from Light Church, Kirkham, Ps Holly Belshaw, talks to us about the Ten Silver Coins and encourages us that we have immense value to God. So much so that He will seach for us, diligently seeking a restored relationship with us. We are reminded that we need to be available to be found, trusting in God an...

Welcome to the second week of our series, Stories Jesus Told. In this episode, Pastor Jonny talks to us about The House on the Rock and challenges us to question what we are building our lives on. We are reminded that there are true and false disciples - it's not simply enough to say that Jesus is Lord, we have to act like He is Lord; it's not enough to say that Jesus is Lord of our lives,...

In a special one-off message, as part of our Spiritual Formation Weekend, Pastor Chris talks about how to recognise and steward a move of the Spirit in terms of our faith. We are given the example from 1 Samuel 14 of Jonathan and his armour bearer who placed their trust completely in God. We are challenged to share testimonies and speak about what God is doing which in turn ignites faith in others...

Welcome to week one of our new series, Stories Jesus Told. In this episode, Pastor Jonny talks to us about the different types of sheep we might be in our journey with Jesus and how we can find our way home to the Good Shepherd. Also, we are reminded that Jesus is our Good Shepherd who persues us in love to guide us back to Him, whichever of these 'sheep-types' we are. We'd love to kno...

In the final message of our Building His Kingdom series, Pastor Jonny takes us through this great teaching on generosity. We are reminded that generosity is not something God wants from you, it's something He wants for you: Generosity releases the power of greed in your life; It releases us from the power of materialism; It's good for our character - generosity isn't something we do, i...