The Bethel - Old Trafford Christadelphian Church

"God is interested in intimacy with us, not some kind of blind rule-following by us". Steve fully expanded some of the ideas of what that intimacy with God can look like in our lives.

Charles and David share duties this week providing words of encouragement from the story of Zacchaeus and 1 Cor 3

All superheroes are flawed because they rely on some boosted and beefed-up human 'power'. Mike takes that theme on and explores what is meant by the phrase that appears throughout scripture "God is my strength" with perhaps surprising conclusions.

Mark Encouraged us to pray for justice, benefitting us, so we are constantly reminded of our responsibility to others that we should be, where possible, the way God will bring justice in the places we touch by whatever means we have at our disposal.

If we can accept the premise that we are all essentially evil, how we deal with that and how we respond to evil is the significant question we tackled this week. Ben encourages us to confront evil with Love, in the way Jesus did, in the way we live daily.

Pete looks at how our lives and beliefs are shaped by our backgrounds and ways to build our relationships with God.

As we share the 'Lord's supper', David reminds us of the freedom that Christ's sacrifice gives us and that our freedom and salvation is all about Jesus' shed blood, nothing about the quality of our lives but all about the quality of Jesus' death.

Using Romans and Psalm 51, Jack explains God's gift of grace and our response to it.

An exploration of the Wells used by Abraham and Isaac reveals some lessons about learning from the past, not repeating the mistakes but repeating the successes. Tim encourages us to open up the wells of truth and be overflowing with 'living waters'.

Mike walks us through the Christmas story, taking less-common angles on the story, not being scared to connect with the very real dirt and grime of the most remarkable birth in history.