The Bethel - Old Trafford Christadelphian Church

Andy encouraged and challenged us that recognising that God guiding our lives, accepting and embracing his purpose for us and aspiring to be close to God and not other things will lead to ultimate happiness and complete contentment.

Andrew explores 1 Peter Showing us that if we continue to feed on the spiritual milk of Jesus we will be clothed with an inner beauty

Jack shares how his faith, matured and deepened by some focal disciplines, stayed strong even through the darkest and most desperate of times.

Darren uses the example of Esther to highlight to us how we should be prepared to live beautiful lives, encouraged by the fact that God loves us and sees us as beautiful regardless of how much we may have messed up.

Pete explores the choices we make as Christians and how to decide when faced with tough decisions.

Giles walks through the gifts given to the young Jesus and equates what they meant and what their modern-day equivalents might have been.

Malcolm shows how Paul's world shook in Acts 21 and 22, and how the Lord stood by his side to give him strength. The lessons for us in times of turmoil, when we are rocked by our own earthquakes are clear.

Are we in love with God? Or are we living lives that are lukewarm like the church in Laodicea. Alex's challenge is to live a life of contrast to the world around us and he shared what helps him fall in love time and time again with God.

David looks at three examples of people that had their lives transformed by encounters with the risen Christ: Mary, Thomas and Peter, and draws out lessons from their experiences for us today.

Tony uses the account of the blind beggar from John 9 to illustrate Jesus' radical impact and God's love for us.

Andy talks about the importance of our foundation in Christ, and finds the origin of the three little pigs in the bible.

Trevor looks at how the disciples witnessed the extraordinary day of Christ's crucifixion and how our ordinary day will be extraordinary on Christ's return.

Wayne explains the confidence we can have in God's grace when we live deeply in Christ and Love out Loud.

The Reading for the day was from Luke 11. David explored how tolerance may or may not be linked to forgiveness.

Using Matthew 16, Richard took us on a journey to explore the reasons we 'do church' and how our church community would look if it best reflected what Jesus originally intended.

Illustrated by his travels and missionary work in Kenya, Alan gives us another vision of what the prophecy in Isaiah 55 means, and how that then affects us in our culture and lives today.

Mark questions whether we only see God working in our lives in the big things and miss his care in the smaller, more mundane things.

Beginning with 1 John 4, Andy reminded us of the basics of life, mortality, spirituality, faith and how Jesus came with a basic message and a basic action which changed the course of history. He then challenges us what we are to do about that message.

Beginning in 1 Corinthians 1, John explores what it means to be sanctified by Christ

David talked us through how having a psychological disorder described as "believing to have a special relationship with a deity or famous person" may actually be a good thing.

Richard walks us through a journey of seven moments within the last hours of Jesus life and after his resurrection.

Taking the scriptures from 2 Samuel 18 and Romans 9, Nick used the passages as a springboard to encourage us to put our trust in God and God alone.

Beginning in 2 Samuel 11, Mike looks at the events described and shows us the elements of the Gospel that are found there, then gives practical ways to relate that to our lives.

Steve explored the parallels between the Walled area of West Berlin and our spiritual journeys, both being part-way places to true freedom and looking towards a complete fulfilment at the return of Christ.

Tony looked at various examples of people making oaths, and various parts of the law that people seemed to break and not be punished by God. He then tied that in to how we are built together as a church by the God who works with the flaws of his people.