RiverTree Church Huddersfield

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but]indeed you are bearing with me. 2 For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin. 3 But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be […]

If we are going to follow Jesus, we have to walk. Walking is used in the Bible as a metaphor – to walk with God is to live a life of daily trust and obedience, step by step. It is ‘keeping in step with the Holy Spirit’ (Gal.5:25) as we go on this journey of […]

Following Jesus and serving go hand in hand. This week Ruth guides us through what that might look like in our daily lives

We can spend our whole lives following the pursuit of stuff but will never be satisfied. Here is Dan to encourage us that there is another way.

When we become Christians, followers of Jesus, we die to our old way of life, we come alive to Christ. Water baptism symbolises this. We go down into the water, like being buried in a grave, and come up out of the water, like being resurrected from the dead. We learn that to be a […]

“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” These are the words of pastor and writer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who literally gave his life because of his faithfulness to the gospel and to the way of Jesus. At dawn, on 9 April 1945, at Flossenburg Concentration Camp, he was stripped naked, dragged to […]

Have you ever been picked last, not asked to the party, or just felt overlooked and left out? When Jesus walked this earth, women in the society of the Ancient Near East were overlooked and left out, often seen as property to be owned. Every Jewish man was obligated to recite three blessings daily, expressing […]

Counting the cost of following Jesus is not always easy. But Jesus makes it very clear that there is a cost to being a disciple:  “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me.  (Matthew 16:24) And: “those of you who […]

To be able to answer this question, we must first answer two other questions which we find in a short passage at the beginning of John’s gospel. In John 1:35-39, two important questions are asked. One is asked by Jesus to those who first start following him: what do you want? The second is asked […]

Reproducing after our own kind is a principle that God establishes at creation (Genesis 1:11). If you plant an apple seed, you get apples. Likewise, God commissions us to “Go and make disciples of all nations”. We are to be disciples making disciples. In John 1:35–46, Jesus calls the first disciples to follow him. It […]

As things have started to open up from lockdown restrictions, many of us have enjoyed being back together with people. Whether that be at a coffee shop with a friend, a small group like our Family Hubs or in our larger Sunday morning gathering. We are realising that it makes a difference being in the […]

Following Jesus Together Our vision is to show the world what God is like. God is love and the people who show the same kind of love with which Jesus loved us are his disciples (John 13:34-35). We are therefore seeking to embed deep in the culture of our church the primary value of discipleship, […]

As we recentre and refocus around the fact that we are following Jesus together, we start by asking what it actually means to follow Jesus. Probably the best way to understand what the New Testament means by the word ‘disciple’ is to think in terms of what we mean now by the word ‘apprentice’. An […]

As we re-start our regular Sunday morning gatherings Trevor Lloyd encourages us to be TOGETHER.

This week Janette speaks to us about what it means to be running a good race.

Following on from last weeks message we continue to explore the challenge of not drifting with the cultural crowd. In part 2 Trevor has some practical help for us as we continue to aim to live generously in the world.

One danger of living with our walls down is that we end up drifting with the crowd or the cultural tide. How do we live open and generously in the world when our allegiance is to a kingdom that is not of this world?

How do we keep our walls down and our hearts open when we encounter people who are different to us? How do we love well, those that don’t look like us, behave like us or believe the same as us? Here’s Sara to help us explore these questions.

Trevor urges each of us to prayerfully reflect on whether we have built any walls of prejudice, to honestly recognize them and earnestly repent of them.

This week Steve Jones encourages us not to give up sharing with people and encourages us to shift our mindset because we will see the fruit of it.

Trevor looks at how we can stayed rooted in God by ensuring we continually draw from and are filled with the Holy Spirit. We do this by both our posture – a heart orientated toward heaven – and by our daily practices.

Conflict is an inevitable component of community and family life. But it doesn’t have to lead to broken relationships and ongoing strife. In this talk Trevor considers some scriptural principles for handling conflict well.

Gratitude is a state of heart that effects our resilience, happiness and worship. It is appreciating that every good thing that comes your way is from the heart of God. It is a key to powerful mission, and it is something that we need to deliberately train ourselves in. Here’s Alison to help us explore […]

As we continue to think and talk about putting our Roots Down and bringing our Walls Down, Ruth shares the blessings to be found in being part of a small group.