Going Deeper

Christians are people who have taken up the call of Jesus to ‘come follow me’. The first disciples of Jesus spent three years following Jesus on the great journey of discipleship. As they spent time with Jesus, they slowly became like Jesus and then they went on to do what Jesus did. This is the adventure of discipleship, of following Jesus. This page is designed to help you to find resources and ideas to help you to like those first disciples spend that time with Jesus and so find your lives radically transformed by God’s goodness.

At Cogges church we want to be a community of people together following that call of Jesus to ‘come follow me’. Part of that we do together in Sunday worship, Connect Groups and Missional communities. However, we also all need to take the responsibility for the growth of our relationship with Jesus and that of our family. That is what these resources are all about. Why not prayerfully read through and see what God’s Spirit prompts you to use to invest time in your relationship with God.

We have produced a booklet (see right) about growing in our walk with Jesus. These webpages expand on the booklet with links to talks and resources which are designed to help you in your personal discipleship.

The first thing we’d encourage you to do (if you don’t do already) is to spend time reading the Bible and praying each day. Here are some ideas to help you with this:

The Lectio365 app which give a daily devotion full of prayer and scripture.
Nicky Gumble’s Bible in One Year commentary which will help you read through the Bible in a year. This gives three passages to read plus a thought from Nicky which brings them all together. It is available on-line, via email, through an app or in a real physical book! The Read Scripture app gives an alternative pattern for reading the Bible in a year, this time with a set of videos to introduce the Bible books and themes.
The YouVersion App not only gives you the text to pretty much every Bible translation, it allows you to have David Suchet read to you the NIV version! It has many reading plans for the Bible some with devotions (including the Bible in One Year).
The New Testament for Everyone series by Tom Wright (for example Luke for Everyone) is an excellent and thought provoking introduction to each New Testament book and a good introduction to daily Bible reading.
If you want to receive a short set of prayer pointers each week to help spark your prayers then why not join our Prayer Link – email David (david@coggesparish.com) to join. And if you want pray for any need you or your family are facing then drop an email to (prayer@coggesparish.com) and we’ll get the church praying!

Going Deeper

Going Deeper

Going deeper… the basics

Talks from the ‘Who am I becoming?’ series

St Mary's Cogges