The Bethel - Old Trafford Christadelphian Church

John encouraged us, when we are feeling lonely, to fix our eyes on Jesus & use God's strength to choose to do something about it.

Taking thoughts from 2 Kings 4, Charles encouraged us to believe that God has everything under control, to trust in Him even when we don't understand our circumstances or things that happen to us.

Beginning in Jeremiah 32:38-40 Alex reminded us how good God has been to us and then encouraged us not to grow tired of doing good works (Galatians 6:9+10) using three stories to illustrate 'agathos' - the good works we are created to do.

Encouragement based on Hebrews 11, also drawing from Mark 11.

Mark 4 was the scripture for the day and Andrew used it as a springboard to remind us to keep swimming forwards in our faith, not to take steps backwards and remember our first love - Jesus.

Beginning in 2 Samuel 19, Nick compared David with Saul and held up a mirror to how we prefer to associate with Bible heroes when we more often resemble the villains.

Pete asks 'at what point do we dig so deep into the detail of a biblical truth and try to implement it so exactly that we change it into a tradition, and when does the next step of turning it into a falsehood and therefore myth happen and how can we resis

Tony used Matthew 20, picking up the rivalry between the disciples and the envy in the parable of the Workers in the vineyard, and other examples to teach about envy and getting on better together.

Mark 10 was the reading that sparked Simon's encouragement to us to store up treasure in heaven, not on earth.

Taking David's encounter with Goliath as an example, Tony encourages us to work out what our 'Goliath(s)' are and draw strength from God to overcome them.

Alex uses Acts 2 v 42 to encourage us to break the 'me' in 'me' so Christ is elevated above all and Dave used Matthew 21 v 33-43 to encourage us to have well tended vines and fruit that pleases God.

Mike looked at Jesus'& God's words from Revelation 1 and 21 + 22 "I am the Alpha and the Omega" to encourage us to make Jesus our A to Z

Drawing together verses from the New Testament, towards Colossians 1:27, Roy asks us "Who is Christ to us?"

Encouragement from the letter to the Hebrews, Steve urged us not to harden our hearts and move away from God but to let him write his law on our hearts so we can reach out to others that might have hardened theirs.

Although we are not able, we will serve the Lord and must always approach our lives with that aim, with God's strength, we will be able to serve him. Readings from Joshua 24 and James 1.

Inspiring us from the words in some Psalms and Hebrews 10, Pete encouraged us to be confident in our salvation and in approaching God, hoping that our confidence might be contagious to others.

Starting in Romans 8 and working through to Galatians 5, the encouragement was to believe these scriptures and live like we believe them by allowing God to dwell in us by his spirit, put to death the deeds of the sinful and 'keep in step with the spirit'.

With bible readings taken from John Chapters 6 and 9, John encouraged us to take Jesus Emmanuel - God with us - into ourselves so that we might be 'emmanuel' to other people around us.

Don's Final thoughts on the theme and our communion service.

Don's Second Talk at the Old Trafford Fellowship Weekend, Further drawing on the 'Sheep on way' theme to highlight ways we can best combat our sheep-like 'spiritual stupidity' from the scriptures. Don also looked at ways to reach out to the 'lost sheep'.

Don's First Talk at the Old Trafford Fellowship Weekend. Developing ideas from the theme on Shepherding, the way we are like sheep in our spiritual journeys and other sheepish parallels.

Acts 2 is the scriptural context Malcolm used to explore and encourage us to have an uncommon addiction for God, an uncommon affection for his family and an uncommon tension for the lost.

Step out in Faith, don't be afraid, Jesus is with us. Sound encouragement taken from various New Testament scriptures.

Today's Bible text was from The Gospel of John Chapter 20 and Proverbs 22, David encouraged us not to lose sight of the Love that was shown to the world in Christ's sacrifice and try to avoid the "I, Me, Now" mindset that much of today's society lives by.

Mike explored the reasons why we meet together as a church and used personal examples of people that made an impact on his faith by the way they lived their lives and interacted with their fellow believers.