The Bethel - Old Trafford Christadelphian Church

God's reaction to people who turn their back on him is always to continue to pursue them. God's desire is for reconciliation and it is the same today as it was for the people He told Ezekiel to go and speak to, even though He knew they wouldn't listen. Tony encouraged us with the reminder that God is always here for us and our response to what God has done for us is to seek to be more Christlike.

What do we do with our minds to keep them focussed on God? How can we train our minds to ignore the distractions of life around us? What are the capabilities of the mind that God has given us and how important is it and it's health to us? Phil walks us through some practical suggestions to help us train our minds and tap into the mind of God and the mind of Christ. Regular mind training will hone...

Elijah's adventures, including being fed by ravens, a woman who's oil would not run out and needed her son resurrecting, a sacrifice-off with the prophets of baal, fire from heaven and a bloody massacre can sometimes pass us by with our overfamiliarity with the stories. Tony revisited the stories with fresh eyes, reminding us that these things were big and impressive and miraculous. But also, many...

We can find it easy to join in with Jesus' condemnation of the Pharisees and Pete explored the 5 things they were more regularly criticised by Jesus for. From this he drew crucial lessons for us to learn and tangible ways to apply them in our lives. God is after fruit from us but we can't expect it to come over night, we need to be patient.

Digging down into the text of Matthew 7, Mike starts his encouragement with the phrase 'do not judge' and centres the whole passage on the deeper meaning of Jesus igniting our desire to grow closer to God with the knowledge that God's desire is to get closer to us.

How we speak to each other matters. Martyn encouraged us to speak truthfully and also to speak truth whilst at the same time not being insensitive or unkind.

No matter what storms surround us in life, all we need to do is lift our eyes and fix them on Jesus. The words 'Lord Save Me' are the only ones needed to stop us sinking.

The Parable of the sower asks questions of us; what kind of soil am I? In an age where grace is derided the parable also reveals to us the surprising grace of the sower.

If you suffer from anxiety, Malcolm thinks there may be a solution found in the pages of an ancient library of books describing people's encounter with the divine.

Richard challenges what norms and traditions we might be prepared to sacrifice to try to prevent the growing trend of young people leaving church. The statistic is that 'half the children of church members do not attend church by the time they are adults'. Using the parables from Luke 15 and the life of the Apostle Paul, Richard draws parallels and encouragement for us to line up with God's desire...

If we were given the chance to change one thing in our lives, what would it be? Would we start with something on the outside? Lets face it, internal change is always harder to achieve. Jesus is in the business of transformation, transfiguration, matamorphosis and if we, in our 'construction in progress' lives, can spend time gazing on the glory of God and Jesus, we will find we can be transformed...

Like Mr Silly, we live in Nonsenseland! So many things in our world that should be shocking, surprising, wrong, odd, weird and outlandish, we have normalised to the point of them being banal. Using the passages about Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah as a parallel to our lives, Richard encouraged us to wake up again and let our hearts be broken by the things that break God's heart. To Believe, Leave, Loo...

God is Abundantly Forgiving, Proactively Seeking, Ferociously Protective and Sacrificially Redeeming. Martyn looks through a combination of parables and psalms and builds a picture of a God who will go to greater lengths than we could imagine to rescue his precious people - all people - and restore them to their rightful place.

God's rest is our ultimate goal. God's rest is also the way we get to God's rest!!!

When we construct our ideas of God and how we think he behaves, invariably we oversimplify. What happens to us when something happens that doesn't fit in our God box. The God we worship is bigger than anything we can imagine. His ways are not our ways. Get used to it!

Pete explored how the relationships between Saul David and Jonathan teach us lessons about our relationship with Jesus

Trevor focused on the concept of making your calling and election sure, because no-one knows the day or the hour of Christ's return

Andy poses the question - Could Christ be bigger than the person Jesus Christ?

Andy poses the question - Could Christ be bigger than the person Jesus Christ?

Andy poses the question - Could Christ be bigger than the person Jesus Christ?

A number of people in the scriptures seemed to see things that passed many others by. Are we the kind of people that see the unseeable? Can we develop eyes to see the work of God in our lives, can we see the world through God's eyes?

We personally and collectively, as brothers and sisters in Christ are the Church, his body. Chris calls us to reconnect with this fundamental and be the place where Christ dwells.

Neil led the congregation in an Easter celebration.

Jesus wasn't a robot following out his pre-programmed orders, he was a man like us with fears, worries and concerns. He was deeply moved at Lazarus's funeral and 'troubled'. But despite that, he didn't flinch from his task.

'Big Brother is watching you' is the message that comes from the classic Orwell novel 1984. Is this the message we get from reading the bible? John explores what similarities and differences can be drawn in the two texts.