RiverTree Church Huddersfield

This Sunday Sara and Ruth sit down for a conversation about what Serving Together looks like.

We believe in being together. But what does this look like when we are in our everyday worlds? This week Ruth helps us unpack what it means to be the church in the everyday places where we find ourselves.

This week Trevor Lloyd speaks to us about what it means to contend together.  Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in the one Spirit, striving together as one for […]

This week Trevor Lloyd speaks on “the longing of leadership”.  ‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing Matt.23:37 Then Jesus told them, ‘This very night you […]

In our final session of the weekend Sim talks to us about the influence we have as the Church of Jesus Christ.

In the second session of our weekend away Sim explores what it looks like to encounter together and grow together.

For our weekend away we were joined by Sim and Lottie Dendy from Freedom Church in Romsey. In our first session, Sim takes us back to the beginnings of the church in Acts 2 and explains the 10 hall marks of the early church. In doing so, he encourages us to de-clutter and remember why […]

God is a God of the generations. What we do today affects what happens tomorrow. Here’s Dan to explain more.

This week Trevor Shotter speaks to us on the subject of forgiveness, and explains what forgiveness is and what it looks like in our lives when we forgive. There is a summary below and then a video recording at the bottom of this post. When we “Follow Jesus Together” we tend to ‘bump’ into one […]

Humans were made to dance. We are created to be an extension of community as we see it in the Godhead of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. An early word used to describe this divine community was perichoresis, which literally means a dance: a dance of mutual love and honour in which each divine person […]

This Sunday Dan speaks to us about the importance of gathering together and making it a priority in our lives. I love gathering. From an early age, I remember gathering with other Christians in groups of 5 to 50,000. It is something we are called to do and is critical to us as individuals and […]

This week Sara Cosgrove shares on the power of the shared experience. Summary Notes Shared experiences can be so powerful. Not only do they give us courage, affirmation and the impetus to keep going. There is often a knock-on effect for the greater good. For example, in Acts 2 when the Holy Spirit came upon […]

This week we celebrated the work of the Branch. The Branch is one of the ways we as a church show love and kindness to our community. It is part of the way we fulfil our vision to “make the love of God real in the real world” TOGETHER

As you read the passage from Hebrews 12 that the Holy Spirit has kept bringing us back to, please note the plural pronouns. Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so […]

Where do you put your hope? Dan invites us to put our hope in Jesus. A hope that never disappoints.

On Good Friday Dan invites us to be part of the greatest love story ever told.

This week Trevor speaks to us about Jesus, the Lamb of God

This week Trevor and Alison take some time to reflect on what God has been speaking to us about over the last few months.

Over the last few weeks, there have been natural storms and spiritual storms. We live in a world where there is war close by. It is important that we know Jesus, the giver of peace at this time. “As evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s cross to the other side of the lake.” […]

Do you sometimes find yourself craving a bit more simplicity in your life?  There is something beautiful about simplicity, whether that’s a simple flower or a simple life lived well. The simplicity of Jesus draws us in. Jesus prayed simple prayers like, “Be still!” to a storm. Or by simply giving thanks for food before it […]

The love Jesus has for us is intense and he passionately pursues us with his goodness and love, going after even the one who is lost.   ”Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will live in the house of the Lord forever”. (Ps. 23:6) […]

In Hebrews 12:2 we are encouraged to “fix our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith” and to “consider him”. So what is a pioneer? The dictionary refers to a pioneer as being “a person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area.” Pioneers go first, […]

Jesus did not come to subvert the law, he came to fulfil it. But he did come to overthrow and break down the the religious and rigid interpretations that people had built up around the law, and the practices they had added to it. The Sermon on the Mount (see Matthew 5-7) is full of […]

Charles Wesley’s hymn, “And Can It Be”, contains this verse: No condemnation now I dread; Jesus, and all in him is mine! Alive in Him, my living head, And clothed in righteousness divine, Bold I approach th’eternal throne, And claim the crown, through Christ my own We are, as the fourth line states, “clothed in […]