Growing Together in the Gospel

Leominster Baptist Church
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At Leominster Baptist Church, our deepest desire is for everyone, everywhere to experience the love, grace, and transforming power of Jesus in their everyday lives. We believe faith isn’t just for Sundays—it’s for every moment, every challenge, and every joy. Our vision is simple yet life-changing: to help people build an everyday relationship with Jesus— so they can live with him, like him and for him. This is a relationship that shapes their decisions, strengthens their hearts, and fills their lives with hope. Whether you’re new to faith, exploring what it means to follow Christ, or looking for a community to grow with, we invite you to join us on this journey. Wherever you are, whatever your story, you can walk with Jesus every day.

  1. FEB 20

    The Exodus Way Part 2: Fear and Faithfulness

    The Exodus Way Part 2: Fear and Faithfulness In this podcast we continue in the book of Exodus, looking at chapter 1 & 2 and the world it describes - a world shaped by fear. Pharaoh isn't threatened by rebellion or violence, but by fruitfulness. Israel is multiplying and flourishing, and he panics. That alone says a lot. Fear doesn't always wait for danger. Sometimes it shows up when things are going well. We saw that fear often begins with distorted vision. It sees blessing as threat, difference as danger, and growth as loss. And once fear takes hold, it reaches for control, even if others have to pay the price. Scripture helps us name what's happening beneath the surface by using two images that run all the way through the Bible. The first is the serpent which represents deception. It whispers lies about God, about scarcity, and about self‑protection. It tells us there isn't enough, that God can't be trusted, and that we must secure ourselves before someone else takes what's ours. The second is the city which represents fear organised into systems. It's what happens when those lies get embedded into cultures, policies, and ways of life that operate without reference to God. Fear stops being just a feeling and becomes a structure that shapes how people live. Pharaoh embodies both. He believes the serpent's lie, and then builds a city shaped by fear and control. But Exodus doesn't just expose fear. It also shows how fear begins to unravel, not through loud defiance or heroic power, but through quiet faithfulness: Midwives who choose to fear God rather than obey a fearful systemA mother who entrusts her child to God when control runs outA sister who stays present when it would be easier to look awayA daughter of Pharaoh who chooses compassion instead of complianceNone of them overthrow the city. None of them silence the serpent by force. But each one refuses fear's story, and in choosing love, they begin to loosen its grip. And in Jesus, we see that same pattern brought to fullness. Where fear says, "Take," love says, "Give." Where fear says, "Save yourself," Jesus lays His life down. His is the love that casts out fear, not by force, but by faithful presence. Reflection Here are some simple questions to reflect on this week, either on your own or with others: Where might fear be shaping the way I think or act?Do I ever see others' blessing as a threat to my own?Which of the women's responses in Exodus 2 resonates with your own story right now?  Like the midwives, are you being called to quietly stand your ground against the serpents lies and choose what's right, even when it's costly?Like the mother, are you learning to release something precious and trust God with what you can't control?Like the sister, are you staying close and watching carefully, ready to step in when the moment comes?Like Pharaoh's daughter, are you in a position to use your influence to show compassion and protect the vulnerable?What would choosing love over fear look like in this season of life?Ask Dean a question

    37 min

  2. FEB 12

    The Exodus Way Part 1: A God Who Rescues

    The Exodus Way Part 1: A God Who Rescues In this podcast we begin a new series of teaching around the book of Exodus. Exodus is not just the story of Israel escaping Egypt. It's the pattern the Bible keeps returning to as it explains who God is and who we are through the story of a people in bondage, held by a power that refuses to let go. In the darkness of that captivity, we are introduced to a God who hears the cries of His people and rescues them. God makes a way where no way seems possible. This is not just the story of a people held in captivity in Egypt, it's Jesus' story … and it's our story too. Whether you're feeling stuck, tested, or tired, Exodus shows us that God isn't just rescuing people from something. He's rescuing them for something. To form a people who know Him, walk with Him, and are changed by His presence. If you find what Dean has said interesting and have a question, please use the 'Ask Dean' link to get it to us as we will try to put together a Q and R podcast in due course. Thank you for your support and for listening in!  Prayer and Reflection: The Journey Ahead As we enter this Exodus series, let's ask God not just to show us the destination but to help us trust Him in the wilderness. Pray for hearts that are soft, lives that are teachable, and a church that longs not only for rescue, but for deeper formation. "Teach us your ways, O Lord, that we may walk in your truth." — Psalm 86:11 You can see past sermons on the Leominster Baptist Church website at https://www.youtube.com/@leobc2402/streams. Leominster Baptist Church can be found on Etnam Street in Leominster. To find out more about us, visit our website leobc.co.uk. If you would like to speak to someone about anything that you have heard on our podcasts please give us a call and ask for a chat. Ask Dean a question

    34 min

  3. FEB 9

    Inhabiting the Gospel Part 4: Who the Bible Says We Are

    Inhabiting the Gospel Part 4: Who the Bible Says We Are  The Bible says we are God’s handiwork and thus a most wonderful creation. Sadly, too often, as we journey through our lives, we forget this and allow the world to define us – our friends, our family, our selves. The enemy delights in distracting us from becoming the person God wants us to be. This sermon seeks to make us think about this truth and how we should define ourselves in Christ. If you find what Dean has said interesting and have a question, please use the 'Ask Dean' link to get it to us as we will try to put together a Q and R podcast in due course. Thank you for your support and for listening in! You can see past sermons on the Leominster Baptist Church website at https://www.youtube.com/@leobc2402/streams. Leominster Baptist Church can be found on Etnam Street in Leominster. To find out more about us, visit our website leobc.co.uk. If you would like to speak to someone about anything that you have heard on our podcasts please give us a call and ask for a chat or drop us an email: office@leobc.co.uk. Ask Dean a question

    41 min

  4. JAN 29

    Inhabiting the Gospel Part 3: Guarding Our Hearts

    Inhabiting the Gospel Part 3 – Guarding Our Hearts In this sermon, Dean looks at our hearts. Jesus said that it is not what goes into our mouth that defiles us, but what comes out. What we say, and what we do, all come from our hearts. If we truly want to inhabit the gospel and transform our walk with Jesus, we need to pay attention to our hearts. If you find what Dean has said interesting and have a question, please use the 'Ask Dean' link to get it to us as we will try to put together a Q and R podcast in due course. Thank you for your support and for listening in! You can see past sermons on the Leominster Baptist Church website at https://www.youtube.com/@leobc2402/streams. Leominster Baptist Church can be found on Etnam Street in Leominster. To find out more about us, visit our website leobc.co.uk. If you would like to speak to someone about anything that you have heard on our podcasts please give us a call and ask for a chat. Ask Dean a question

    37 min

  5. JAN 25

    Inhabiting the Gospel Part 2: Making and Inhabiting Space

    Inhabiting the Gospel Part 2: Making and Inhabiting Space We continue to work through this series on  how to not only live but inhabit the Gospel story. We know what Jesus did during His life, and we know the promise of what is to come but, in between, there is now. This is the space that we occupy. In this sermon, using the story of Elisha and the widow of Shunem (2 Kings 4 v. 8-37) Dean explores what happens when we make a space for God in our lives. If you find what Dean has said interesting and have a question, please use the 'Ask Dean' link to get it to us as we will try to put together a Q and R podcast in due course. Thank you for your support and for listening in! You can see past sermons on the Leominster Baptist Church website at https://www.youtube.com/@leobc2402/streams. Leominster Baptist Church can be found on Etnam Street in Leominster. To find out more about us, visit our website leobc.co.uk. If you would like to speak to someone about anything that you have heard on our podcasts please give us a call and ask for a chat. Ask Dean a question

    37 min

  6. JAN 22

    Inhabiting the Gospel Part 1: Hearing the Gospel Afresh

    Inhabiting the Gospel Part 1 – Hearing the Gospel Afresh In this new series of sermons, we are challenged to look afresh at our relationship to the God who fashioned every detail of our lives and the world around us and who, recognising our inability to live in the way He intended us to, sent His Son to walk among us. He did all of this out of the abundance of his love for His creation. We know the story of the Gospel: that Jesus died for our sins and three days later, rose from the grave. His death and resurrection was witnessed by many and neither the Jewish or Roman authorities could, despite their deep interest in doing so, could refute this truth. Jesus said that all who believe in Him will be adopted into his kingdom and become coheirs.  In John 14 v. 1-6 Jesus says,  “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so I would not have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” And when his disciples expressed doubts that they knew the way, Jesus added,  “I am the way, and the truth and the life.” Reflection We are not so unlike the Twelve disciples. We can sit in the presence of the Lord every minute of every day just as they sat in his presence. But how well do we know our Master’s voice? As we reflect on this fresh re-telling of the Gospel can we say that we have embraced its message in every aspect of our lives? The challenge Dean lays down to us today is not to just know the Gospel, but to step into the Gospel. This sermon was preached in January 2025. Leominster Baptist Church can be found on Etnam Street in Leominster. To find out more about us, visit our website leobc.co.uk. If you would like to speak to someone about anything that you have heard on our podcasts please give us a call and ask for a chat. Ask Dean a question

    37 min

  7. JAN 16

    Episode 8: Daniel's Epiphany!

    Daniel Part 8 – Daniel’s Epiphany! What, you might ask, has Daniel got to do with the Christmas story? In this epilogue to the Daniel series, Dean bridges the four-hundred-year void between Daniel, as he lived and followed God faithfully in Babylon, and the events of that night when Mary and Joseph trusted God in Bethlehem. Most people are familiar with the scene: Mary gives birth to Jesus in a stable because there was nowhere else she could stay in Bethlehem. We can probably name all of the key characters in that scene: we have Mary, Joseph and of course Jesus; there are normally a few animals; and then there are the visitors – the shepherds and the wise men. But who were the Wise Men – sometimes called ‘the Magi’? Why were they there? Where did they come from?  The most exciting part of studying the Bible, is when connections across time and space are made and we are able to see how joined up God’s plans really are. This is one of those lovely moments. If you have any questions about the series and the teaching that we have received, please use the link to send it to Dean. The Daniel series was preached in the weeks up to Christmas in 2024. Reflection As we come to end of this series consider reading through the whole book again. It won’t take very long.  Consider how Daniel lived as a captive in Babylon? He did not isolate himself from it, but there were things that he would not do too. Consider how he and his friends dealt with the difficulties that they faced. Reflect on the level of trust that they had in God.  Do we really live in such a different situation? We live in a world that is filled with all sorts of gods and that has no time for God. Is Daniel speaking to you today? Leominster Baptist Church can be found on Etnam Street in Leominster. To find out more about us, visit our website leobc.co.uk. If you would like to speak to someone about anything that you have heard on our podcasts, please give us a call and ask for a chat. Ask Dean a question

    29 min

  8. JAN 16

    Daniel Part 7: Not Just Forgiven but Victorious

    Daniel Part 7 – Not Just Forgiven, but Victorious In this teaching on the last two chapters of Daniel we are taken on a journey through History and shown how what was relevant to Daniel, was relevant to the people who lived around the time of Christ, and remains relevant to us as we live our lives today. Daniel had lived his life in Babylon. He had faced the challenge of living in a land that did not share his love for God and that often did all it could to destroy him for his faithfulness. Indeed, the whole book of Daniel shows us that the world we live in, is not so different to that which Daniel inhabited. He served a God that the world around him did not. Does that sound familiar? Have you ever considered that we too, live as captives within Babylon? In an impressive sweep through History Dean shows how the final chapters of Daniel apply again and again to the experience of humanity. Empires, regimes and tyrants continually rise but inevitably, no matter how strong they appear, fall too.  The message that we are given through this teaching is that God has everything covered. He will restore His good world in every detail. Drawing from Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dean shows us that no matter how dark the times can appear, we are to remain strong and faithful, like Daniel, and keep going. In these times of darkness, we are to draw on ‘the light’ and remember that we are not just forgiven but, through Christ, are victorious.  The final words of Daniel are there for all of us: “As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.” (Daniel 12 v.13) God asks no more than we stand and remain faithful, because He has done everything already, when He died and rose again. Reflection It is easy to feel overwhelmed as we live our lives. Whether it is through being consumed by the daily drama of the doom-mongering within the news cycle or suffering within our personal lives. It is perhaps easy too, to live from day to day as one who is forgiven but not really very happy. In Psalm 23 we are encouraged to see God as our shepherd, and one who attends to our every need. He leads us to rich pastures and quiet waters to nourish us. And when it is time, he takes us to new places. As we journey, times can become dark and scary, yet, “even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me, your rod and staff.” Imagine you are walking though a valley. One side is sunny with warmth and buzzing insects, and the other, colder because it is in the shadow of a peak. You hear a noise. It worries you, so you hide behind a boulder – and in so doing become detached from your guide and find yourself alone and cold. But the encouragement of this psalm is to stay close to Jesus even when there is darkness and cold, for He is with us, His rod and staff, all that is necessary for a shepherd to deal with the dangers of the wilderness, they comfort us. The psalm goes on to show how Jesus anoints us in the presence of our enemies and lays out a banquet for us.  Read this powerful psalm slowly, pray that God will enable you to inhabit it and speak to you in your situation through it. May it warm your day and your life. Leominster Baptist Church can be found on Etnam Street in Leominster. To find out more about us, visit our website leobc.co.uk. If you would like to speak to someone about anything that you have heard on our podcasts please give us a call and ask for a chat. Ask Dean a question

    44 min
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At Leominster Baptist Church, our deepest desire is for everyone, everywhere to experience the love, grace, and transforming power of Jesus in their everyday lives. We believe faith isn’t just for Sundays—it’s for every moment, every challenge, and every joy. Our vision is simple yet life-changing: to help people build an everyday relationship with Jesus— so they can live with him, like him and for him. This is a relationship that shapes their decisions, strengthens their hearts, and fills their lives with hope. Whether you’re new to faith, exploring what it means to follow Christ, or looking for a community to grow with, we invite you to join us on this journey. Wherever you are, whatever your story, you can walk with Jesus every day.

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  • Creator
    Leominster Baptist Church
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    27
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    © 2026 Growing Together in the Gospel
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