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.
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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.
What ultimately matters is not how you start but how you finish. But finishing well does not happen by accident. It requires one taking the time to think about the legacy they want to leave and then shaping that legacy today.
Ahead of becoming Senior Leader in September 2015, Pastor Dominic speaks about finishing strong by beginning with the end in mind.