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Faith begins when you trust God’s promise enough to obey His commands, despite what you see with your natural eye. When the widow of Zarephath was at her lowest point, a simple act of faith changed absolutely everything; her response of obedience to God's Word resulted in blessing flowing into her life in unexpected ways. This Mother's Day 2017 sermon reminds us that the little in our hands remains little if it stays in our hands but placing it into God's hands can usher in the miraculous.
In this message guest speaker and worship leader Dave Wellington shares many wonderful insights from Psalm 68. Dave digs into the text to discover why we should be so extravagant in our worship, exploring what it is about God and His nature that will inspire us so.
If you want to be fruitful in the Christian walk then there is only one way to do so: abiding in Jesus. This message points people to Jesus, the source of fruitfulness. Discover how to live the kind of life that He desires and to be effective as a Christian.
Do you feel that your life has wilted, is not growing or going anywhere? God wants you to flourish, mature and produce fruit. This message looks at our lives as trees planted in God, in the Word, and in the Church and encourages us to be properly rooted.
There are people who just cannot get to Jesus on their own. Such was the case with the paralytic of Mark 2. But thankfully he had faithful, faith-filled friends who stopped at nothing to get him to Jesus - and because of them the paralytic received two amazing miracles that day. This message reminds us that all around there are people who are paralysed by the results of sin. They won’t get to Jesus on their own; they need someone to carry them - they need you!
Bishop Lebert Shakes, Chaplain at HMP Wayland, exhorts us from Isaiah 6 to be a church filled with God's glory. As you listen be encouraged that greater things are yet to come and greater things are still to be done in our city.
The more room we make for God, the more He will move in our lives; give God more of you and you will get more of Him. Be blessed by this message from guest speaker, Luke Brendling. Luke is an itinerant minister based in the UK. He was formerly on team at Hillsong London, where he still serves as a volunteer pastor.
Christianity is potentially one generation away from extinction. Each generation has a responsibility to invest in and pass on the truth to the next generation. This sermon explains how as individuals and as a church we can reach out, model faith and pass on a godly inheritance to the next generation.
When going on a journey many people trust in their satellite navigation devices to get them to their destination. We are all on a journey, not just in the natural but spiritually too - as individuals and as a church family. The Bible tells us that in all things we should trust God to direct our paths. How do we do this? Listen to this sermon from One Church Leadership Team member, Malcolm Reeve, and find out more.
There are multiple characters in the Bible named Simon. What can we learn from them? This message from One Church Leadership Team member Geoff Brendling surveys the Simons of Scripture and what God may teach us through their story.
With the exception of the thief on the cross, and that simply because he died moments after putting his trust in Christ, you won’t find an unbaptised believer in the New Testament. Yet many today have watered down water baptism and made it a whole lot less important than it was to Jesus and the early church. This sermon explains what baptism means by setting out some core reasons as to why it is important, addressing some of the common misunderstandings about baptism and also speaking into the issues which lead some Christians to unnecessarily delay their baptism or even choose not to be baptised altogether.
This sermon - delivered by Malcolm Reeve, a member of the One Church leadership team – is based on Ezekiel 47, Ezekiel’s vision of a river of life flowing out of the temple. The message is a call to be a church that transforms what is dead into life - to be a church that is a river of life in our city, an outlet of transformation to all who we encounter.
Christianity is not only about having our sins forgiven but also coming into relationship with our Father God. With our status in God’s family secure, God calls us to go about the family business of making disciples and practically demonstrating His love.
Be inspired by this sermon from guest speaker David Campbell, overseer of the Elim Metropolitan Regions, comprising of some 140 churches and including One Church.
The Day of Pentecost changed everything! Acts 2 records the moment when suddenly those fearful disciples hiding in that upper room in Jerusalem were transformed into unstoppable and anointed mouthpieces for God. Some unusual things took place that first Pentecost: a mighty sound from heaven, the appearance of what seemed like tongues of fire and the ability to speak in unlearned foreign languages. This Pentecost Sunday sermon explores the meaning of these occurrences by unpacking the Old Testament background. You will be reminded that the Spirit breathes life into us, empowers each of us and gives us a language to speak out God's truth to others.
As Christians we are not called to live in regret, we are called to a life of restoration. God's promise is that He will restore and the amazing thing is that God’s restoration is not to how we were before, it’s better. God restores more, God restores in abundance! God's heart is that we are restored to His original plan for all areas of our lives. When you’ve been knocked down to your knees, God doesn’t just get you up on your feet, He sets your feet dancing!
God calls us to leave behind the familiar and launch out into deep waters. This message, delivered by guest speaker Dr Randlee Reddy from Veritas Christian Ministries in South Africa, is a call to accelerate our pursuit of the plans and purposes of God.
In the Bible, names were seen as descriptive of not only who people are but also who they are meant to become. On the occasion of Palm Sunday and the launch of our new name 'One Church', John Glass – the General Superintendent of Elim and the Chair of Council for the Evangelical Alliance – brings a timely and inspiring word encouraging us to step into our identity and destiny, releasing what we have to Jesus’ mission and being a people who take the glory of God from where it is to where it isn’t.
Jesus taught us to pray, “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”. This means that as Christians we should be living in so much more than we often do. Jesus meant that we should be praying God’s will and His kingdom into our lost and broken world. As Christians, miracles should be our norm. The supernatural should come naturally to us. We should expect miracles that reveal and glorify God. A life with God is one where we can have great expectations – expectations of the miracles He can work in our lives and through us in the lives of others.
In our anxiousness to separate ourselves from undue veneration of Mary, at times Protestant Christians have been guilty of relegating Mary to a place of virtual insignificance. But there was something about Mary which caught God’s attention. What was it about Mary that, of all the women in the world at that time, God chose her to be the mother of Jesus? This message explores what we can learn from Mary’s attitude, faith and devotion to God as we seek to be the kind of people whom God will entrust to birth His plans and purposes in our generation.
On the occasion of the induction of our new senior leaders Dominic & Catherine De Souza, this is a message from John Glass, General Superintendent of Elim. The night also marked the official transition of the church into the Elim network.
