Forest Town Church Podcasts

A message from Helen Rist at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Helen shares on four attitudes we can develop in our prayer lives. We come to a loving Father; we commit to learning how to pray; we cultivate a submissive and humble heart; and we recognise it is a 2-way conversation with God.

A message from Tim Sandford at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Tim looks at the parable of the sower in Matthew 13 and examines three keys to fruitfulness - patience, dependence and courage.

A message from Ant Rist at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). This follows on from Ant's message of 21 September 2014 looking at our individual prayer lives.

A message from Clive Case at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Clive challenges us to go deeper in corporate worship looking at why we should and some handles on how.

A message from Ant Rist at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Ant looks at the subject of giving and tithing. Using a number of scriptures he encourages us to develop a whole theology of giving.

A message from Ant Rist at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Ant looks at the subject of prayer from Matt 6:5. He looks at the themes of freedom in prayer and discipline in prayer.

A message from Ant Rist at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Ant looks at dealing with anger and not holding grudges. Ephesians 4:22f

A message from Ant Rist at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Ant looks at kindness: how much kindness should we show? What is the source of Christian kindness? How do we show kindness? How do we activate it in our lives?

A message from Ant Rist at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Ant looks at the pattern of Paul's opening and closing greetings in all of his letters and just how central grace was to Paul and what it means for us.

A message from Ant Rist at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Ant looks at how we can dig the well of the Gospel in our own lives to ensure that it is impacting every area and that it is a personal gospel to us as it was for Paul. He starts by looking at what FTC was birthed in and what is of most importance to the church.

A message from Ant Rist at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Ant continues looking at values FTC seeks to embrace and concludes with the value of authenticity. He looks at what authenticity means and outlines six aspects that apply to Christians as they seek to live authentically.

A message from Toks Oraeki at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Toks looks at the faith of Elijah, a man just like us, and encourages us from his life.

A message from Clive Case at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Clive looks at how faith develops in the everyday living out of what we believe - acting on what God's Word says (Note: distortions clear at 5 mins 39 secs)

A message from Cobus Visagie at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Cobus entitles his message 'Abracadabra' because the Aramaic root of the word means 'I will create as I speak' or 'it came to pass as it was spoken'. He looks at our authority as Christians, where it comes from and how we exercise it to speak life.

A message from Ant Rist at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Ant picks up on his message about servantheartedness and how our serving needs to come from love, from the place of being filled with God and His love and not from a place of wanting to fill an emptiness.

A message from Ant Rist at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Ant picks up on the series 'Tending our Roots', looking at different aspects of church and the values we hold. This message looks at servantheartedness and what Jesus had to say about the way to greatness.

A message from Chris Lane at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Chris explores the story of Zacchaeus the tax collector and his encounter with Jesus. Jesus knew where Zacchaeus was, who he was and what he was and he called him to himself - is Jesus calling you?

A message from Ant Rist at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). In this third part Ant continues to examine what it means to develop a culture of honour as part of the values that we as a church hold on to. Who do we honour? Why do we honour? How do we honour?

A message from Toks Oraeki at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). Toks shares on humility, and its opposite - pride, challenging us to seek out and imitate the humility of Christ.

A message from Ant Rist at Forest Town Church, St Albans (UK). In this second part Ant continues to examine what it means to develop a culture of honour as part of the values that we as a church hold on to.