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Starting with God
Starting with God is a gentle, honest companion for anyone who feels caught between longing and belief. Through seven deeply reflective chapters, it invites you to encounter God in unexpected places and rebuild a life of meaning on the solid ground of Jesus Himself.
If you’re weary, wondering, or yearning to begin again, these pages offer a quiet place to wrestle, to breathe, and to finally come home to the presence that’s been pursuing you all along
Episodes
Starting with GodStarting with God 23 - Who is the LORD?
Who Is the Lord? Over the past few weeks we've asked two significant questions: What is God doing now? and Whatever next? We've explored God's work in the…
Starting with GodStarting with God 22 - Whatever Next!
The Destination: Understanding God's Final Purpose Where is the story of Scripture heading? What is the ultimate destination of God's purposes for creation? In…
Starting with GodStarting with God 21 - What's He doing Now?
What Is God Doing Now? If God is sovereign, active, and present in the world, why do His purposes often seem hidden? In this message, we explore one of the…
Starting with GodStarting with God 20 - God is not Dead
God Is Not Dead | Sermon | 2 Corinthians 3:1-18, 1 Peter 2:4-10, Jeremiah 31:34 What if Christianity were more than the preservation of the teachings of a…
Starting with GodStarting with God 19 - You are my God
You Are My God What does it truly mean to say, "The Lord is my Shepherd" or "You are my God"? In this thought-provoking and deeply pastoral message, we explore…
Starting with GodStarting with God 18 - Something Solid
"The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory..." (John 1:14) How can finite people truly know an infinite God? In this…
Starting with GodStarting with God 17 - Describing the Indescribable
Can We Really Describe God? The greatest minds in history have wrestled with the same question Moses asked at the burning bush: "Who are You?" When God…
Starting with GodStarting with God 16 - A Rose by Any Other Name
Names are important. They can convey so much more meaning than simply what the word literally means. So what can we learn from God’s name revealed to Moses: I…
Starting with GodStarting with God 15 - Reliable Data
What is truth? In a world of fake news, AI-generated content, competing opinions, and endless information, how can we know what is really true? In this…
Starting with GodStarting with God 14 - A Lamp to my Feet
In Psalm 119 the psalmist says that God’s word is a lamp to their feet and a light to their path. In the next in our Starting with God series Chris looks at…
Starting with GodStarting with God 13 - Through the looking glass
We continue our series on Starting With God with Chris this week expanding on one of the topics from last week: that at the moment we can only see the glory of…
Starting with GodStarting with God 12 - Being Born Again
Throughout the New Testament it is stated that we should be born again in Christ. Continuing our Starting with God series, Chris speaks on how this is not a…
Starting with GodStarting with God 11 - Heaven
The book of Revelation can be an incredibly difficult book to understand, however in the concluding chapters of John’s vision it gives us a picture of God’s…
Starting with GodStarting with God 10 - Holiness
Chris continues his series in Starting With God by this week looking at God’s holiness. There are some passages in the Bible that can be very difficult to…
Starting with GodStarting with God 9 - Back to Creation
How much can we learn about God from Creation alone? Paul says in his letter to the Romans that by admiring God’s handiwork in nature His eternal power and…
Starting with GodStarting with God 8 - The Cross
In first century Judea a cross was not generally something talked about in polite conversation, let alone boasted about. Yet through Jesus' victory Paul says…
Starting with GodStarting with God 7 - Exile
When we make a decision, conscious or unconscious, to not follow God wholeheartedly we can be sent into exile from Him. Not a physical exile like those…
Starting with GodStarting with God 6 - Dead Ends
The writer of Ecclesiastes examines the whole of existence in his book and comes to the conclusion that “everything is meaningless”. But with one proviso…
Starting with GodStarting with God 5 - Wrong choices
This week Chris continues looking at his series in Starting with God, this week looking at the choices we make. There is a difference between fate and destiny…
Starting with GodStarting with God 4 - Worthless Idols
Starting With God by looking at all of those things that we construct for ourselves to replace God or to divert our attention away from Him. The Bible has a…
Starting with GodStarting with God 3 - Intimacy
This week we are looking at intimacy with God. At the foot of Mount Sinai God spoke to His people who he had guided out of slavery in Egypt. They were so…
Starting with GodStarting with God 2 - Wrestling
“Starting with God” Episode two, looking at the story from Genesis where Jacob wrestles with God. Until this point Jacob has tried to fit God into his own…
Starting with GodStarting with God 1 - Encounter
We begin a new series focusing on re‑setting our relationship with God. In the introduction, Chris uses the image of a jigsaw puzzle—yet not one where Jesus is…