Sean Green from Reading Family Church (https://www.readingfamilychurch.org.uk/) encourages Godfirst and the Lead Couples to trust God and expect Him to do great things through the church as he preaches out of 2 Kings 13:14-21.

We are formed by the habits, routines and rituals of our lives. Paul in scripture encourages us to enter the strict training of athletes. Yet spiritual practises are not just training and effort like rowing but training and effort like sailors to catch the wind of God's Spirit.

Pete Cornford from Redeemer Church London, walks us through the story of Abraham and Isaac. Stirring us to faith like Abraham and showing us how this story is a picture of the Gospel.

Jesus offers us a stark choice, deny yourself, pour yourself out and you'll find true life, or grasp for a life of self, gain the whole world but lose yourself. When we know Jesus is the true treasure, to sacrifice everything for him is no loss.

Howard unpacks how we are formed, looking at 5 pathways, story, experiences, community, practices and loves.

Our failure to fulfil the Great Commission is due to the Great Omission: our failure to truly live our lives shaped as Jesus' disciples.

At our carol service, Howard talks about how birth helps us to understand the story of the world. Hope, suffering, darkness, pain, turns to joy and new life. This is the story of the nativity and the resurrection.

Howard continues his advent series on 'Emmanuel - God with us'. This week Howard tells us how Jesus has come to reconcile all things to the Father, and in doing so has reconciled people with people and eventually heaven and earth.

Advent series on 'Emmanuel - God with us' This week Howard walks us through Big Story of God's presence from Eden, Moses, Tabernacle, Temple, and Exile culminating in how all these threads find their fulfilment in Jesus Incarnate, Crucified, Risen.

Stan concludes the preaching series in the ‘Sermon on the Mount’ with a deeper look at what Jesus meant when He encouraged us to build our houses on the eternally unshakable rock.