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  • Interrupted By The Cross

    07/12/2020 Duración: 55min

    December 6, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms Some of the most significant spiritual lessons are learned from the most unlikely people. Such is the case with the story of Simon of Cyrene. We know very little about this figure who, like a small drop in a giant bucket of water, could easily go unnoticed. But what we do know about Simon should be enough to draw us in close and to draw great encouragement from, especially during these long and uncertain days. I believe Simon has much to teach us on what it means to follow Jesus in the great interruptions of life. (Read Luke 23:26) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+23%3A26&version=MSG Life Interrupted Simon had come to Jerusalem for a totally different purpose but he left encountering Jesus. Maybe there’s a Simon watching this right now. Maybe you jumped on the Internet for a totally different purpose and you stumbled across this message. You didn’t just happen to tune into this. God wants to interrupt your life in the most beautiful way possible. He w

  • All I Want For Christmas

    03/12/2020 Duración: 29min

    December 2, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms • Is:64-1 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=+Isaiah+64%3A1&version=MSG • The Scripture read shows a heart that is in pursuit of God. • The holidays beckons our society about the sacred event of the birth of our Savior. • What do we mean by a relationship with Jesus Christ? • Fear always has a self-interest to it, but is not the goal for a relationship with God. • The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and helps us understand the correct respect for God, but does not help us understand a relationship, but can turn into a duty relationship. • We seek God beyond fear and duty, by looking beyond that and seek relationship. • What moves you? The universal language of love? The moral law within each of us that transcends culture? • Allow yourself to see God in that you hold higher than anything else. • Let the Christmas season this year usher you into a pursuit for a relationship with Jesus Christ.

  • Losing Your Taste

    30/11/2020 Duración: 56min

    November 29, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms • God has made pleasurable experiences such as physical intimacy or existential experiences for the purpose of making us whole. • In contrast, these same things outside of God's design, which is called "sin", may be pleasurable for the moment, but will cost us pieces of ourselves along the way and lead to ruin. • If our life is only led by our appetites, our life will lack meaning and satisfaction. • In the presence of God is the fullness of true joy. • Joy unlike happiness isn't based on a temporal feeling or experience, but can hold through the difficulties and tragedies of life. • Although our physical bodies are temporal, we are eternal beings made in the image of God. • We choose either to seek the temporal or the choose the eternal by faith in Jesus Christ.

  • Gift Economy

    26/11/2020 Duración: 24min

    November 25, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms • As a nation, we make an intentional point to be thankful one day a year. As Christians, it is more than what we do, but it is who we are. A way of being. • Gratitude is a foundation for a Spiritual life. • Once we are thankful for what God has already done for us, it opens to us the opportunity for correct worship. • We should always try to thank those in our lives who have impacted us in positive ways. • Gratitude naturally happens when kindness exceeds expectations. • Feelings of entitlement kills gratitude. • As in some countries, instead of simply giving a verbal thanks, we should be willing to tell someone else about it.

  • Soul Survivor Pt. 3

    23/11/2020 Duración: 48min

    November 22, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms Our souls are exposed to a toxic environment... • God has made a way of escape from this toxic environment of everyone doing what is right in their own eyes. In fact, this is the way of the believer. • Sin (spiritual rebellion) creates both a toxic nature and a toxic environment. This is imaged in death following sin (toxic nature) and banishment from Eden (sin creates a toxic environment... God says, not here... ruin your own world) • Repentance is us turning away from ourselves and saying, “Forgive me for what I’ve made of myself... and my world” • Baptism of water and spirit is the transformation of heart and soul. Having turned away from this world, our hearts are changed to desire another world, a better world. • Spiritual maturity is the nurturing of a spiritually healthy inner world while we survive a toxic world of sin and self. • Spiritual mission is to demonstrate this way of a spiritually healthy soul to the world around you... that others might see... So wh

  • Praying Blessing Upon Your Loved Ones

    19/11/2020 Duración: 27min

    November 18, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms The New Testament admonishes that Christians are priests unto the Lord, and as priests we should bless others, especially our families and loved ones. God bless you and keep you, May God smile on you and gift you, God look you full in the face and make you prosper. Numbers 6: 24-26 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+6%3A22-27&version=MSG

  • Soul Survivor Pt. 2

    16/11/2020 Duración: 01h05min

    November 15, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms Ancient man had every moment of their lives drenched in the sacred. Every day in the week is named after a mythic deity… They were held within the stories they told… We (all of us) live with a set of troubles, disappointments, suffering... We cannot be defined by our troubles... but by our promises... The moment we allow trouble to define us we cease being people of faith, and begin living by sight! It doesn’t matter what others see in you – what does God see? A. You’re not the person you used to be 2 Corinthians 5:17 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+5%3A17&version=MSG B. You are the head, not the tail – Lender not the borrower Deuteronomy 28:13 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+28%3A13&version=MSG C. You’re beloved of God - The apple of His eye D. Chosen before the foundations of the earth E. Sought out and adopted into the beloved F. Sons and daughters of the Most High God G. Seated with Christ in Heavenly Pl

  • Holding One When You Want To Fall Apart

    12/11/2020 Duración: 20min

    November 11, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms While walking with the Lord, you are doing better than you think you are. Although there are exceptions, you have already survived worse things than you are presently going through.

  • Soul Survivor

    09/11/2020 Duración: 59min

    November, 8 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms The word 'heart' refers to the inner life. What the writer of Proverbs is talking about here is the life of the soul. You might say, “Well, only God can keep my heart.” That is like the farmer saying, “Only God can make my harvest grow,” and so he sits around twiddling his thumbs. Here God gives us a command, an active duty. This is something that God calls his people to do. When you become a Christian, God gives you a new heart, a heart that loves God, a heart that trusts God. If anyone is in Christ he or she is a new creation: The old has gone, the new has come. But God also says to us: "Keep your heart!" The primary focus of the eye of God is fixed first on your heart. And the problem of the heart is God’s complaint against his people. No one shows this better than the prophet Malachi; he speaks for the Lord and makes 7 complaints against the House of Israel. All seven of spring from a single problem—they have lost their heart for God. Further, Jesus in his famous S

  • Better Than Chocolate?

    05/11/2020 Duración: 24min

    November 4, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms Nehemiah 8:9 • The joy of the Lord is your strength! • There is a profound simplicity as well as a complexity in the things of God. • Your mind is truly you, while your brain is your super computer running your body. • Smiling activates the pleasure center of your brain. • The width of people's smiles can be associated with data such as overall length of life & success. • By becoming childlike, we can enjoy our smile as well as the Kingdom of God. • Joy is a simple thing and easy to find in Jesus Christ once the order of Spiritual authority is done correctly. • Choose joy! • Although it is easy to serve in duty & loose our joy, but should always protect our joy. • Our brains cannot differentiate between being happy during a circumstance or choosing joy. • Celebrate the promises of God.

  • The Neighbors Are Nuts!

    03/11/2020 Duración: 45min

    November 1, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms Principle: We cannot be spiritual minded and carnally focused... it’s impossible. 1) Politics recreates a community of contempt. We dismiss whole groups of people on the illusion that we know them, when we do not know them... How do people arrive that their current political beliefs? Their experiences and history... How do we judge their current political beliefs? By where we think those beliefs are taking us... Politics kills an environment of understanding and empathy and replaces it with an environment of fear and blame 2) Politics becomes an identity. Genesis 1:26-28 (The Message) Where has the creator God placed his divine image? On what has he put his sovereign inscription? On coins? On temples? On churches? No, on none of these things—on only one thing. On you and on me, on each of us, and indeed, on every human being who's ever lived or shall live. The almighty God has created you in his own image, after his likeness, with his inscription. You bear the image

  • Praying Against The Rapture

    29/10/2020 Duración: 29min

    October 28, 2020 | Pastor Anthony Yanney • The church is standing in the gap spiritually and asking mercy from God for the behalf of all that have not begun walking with Jesus Christ. • Much like Abraham pray for mercy for Sodom and Gomorrah, the church prays for the delay of God's judgement. • Lot, Abraham's nephew living in Sodom, lingered when the angels showed up to destroy the city because he knew that destruction wouldn't come until he and his family actually left. Lot is a type of the church that is holding back judgement. • We linger so that someone that is hungry to fill the emptiness, can come and be filled by the presence of our source, Christ Jesus.

  • I Will Run!

    25/10/2020 Duración: 42min

    October 25, 2020 | Rev Jonathan Moran The Book of Hebrews tells God's people that we should prepare for difficulties and keep our hearts and minds fixed upon our mission and destination, considering that there are many witnesses. Who have gone before us and have also endured difficult things, and are watching how we navigate through our journeys.

  • Talking to Atheists

    22/10/2020 Duración: 29min

    October 21, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms • Atheists actually have faith like believers, but instead of believing in God the Creator, they believe that there is no God. • Agnostics believe that God cannot be known. • If speaking to either, we cannot be dismissive towards them or in any way make them feel that we look down upon them. • We are all made in the image of God and everyone should be respected, no matter what their belief. • As mentioned before, we should listen and truly try to understand their point of view, we should use their language instead of sounding, "churchy", we should be sensitive and look to see how God might be working in their life, and we should leave them with a promise that the Word of God will back up.

  • Of Worship And Spiritual Desire

    19/10/2020 Duración: 53min

    October 18, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms 1st Church CLT As humans, we are made to worship. We all worship something for someone. Worship can also be called a desire for love or closeness. God is seeking for those that choose to worship their Creator. Worship and praise are two different things. Praise the outward expression of what you are feeling towards something or someone. Worship is an inner longing and expression of love. Anything with breath can praise God, only humans made in the image of God can truly worship. If you are willing to put God first in your life, He is looking for you.

  • Your Encourager Has Come

    15/10/2020 Duración: 22min

    October 14, 2020 | Bishop David Elms • To be forgiven, we must first forgive others that have done us wrong. • Jesus Christ quoted from the prophet Isaiah saying the Spirit of God is upon me for the purpose of releasing captives, preaching good news to the poor and proclaiming the acceptable year of the Lord. • The good news is that the Encourager has already come for you and it is simple to receive the benefit. • Believe in Jesus Christ, repent of our wrongdoings, be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be filled with the Holy Spirit, also called the Encourager.

  • Is There Room For Me?

    12/10/2020 Duración: 44min

    October 11, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms The Church is such a celebration of goodness and rightness and righteousness... Whether parenting or marriage or just prudence and temperance... a lived well-lived becomes testimony... This creates tension... is the church a hospital or a health club? Big difference... different goals... A church either fails or succeeds with this balance... But there is a simple solution ... all focus must return to Jesus… Christianity celebrates the life-giving sacrifice of a single man, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus’ life was witnessed by an extraordinary lineup of single women and single men, one of whom would write most of the New Testament. This included the testimony of his resurrection. Some of the earliest churches were started in the homes of single women. Jesus founded the church, the way of radical acceptance.

  • Talking to People About God Pt. 4 / Am I Saved?

    08/10/2020 Duración: 36min

    October 7, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms Today, many may want to talk about spirituality, but not religion. Every generation has its own way of communicating. This present generation will not respond the same way that generations have responded in the past. We should listen to people and not be afraid to speak their style of language. We should look to see how God is already working in their lives and leave them with a promise. Never fall into the trap of answering the question asked by some, whether or not they are saved. That question is a trap, and is many times solely asked for the purpose of righting off the one foolish enough to answer it. None of us are qualified to judge anyone's salvation. We are called to be witnesses and not the judge and cannot speak for that role. We can share the promise given since it is only through Jesus Christ that any can be saved.

  • Physician Heal Thyself

    05/10/2020 Duración: 59min

    October 4, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms What do we mean by Apostolic? I believe I have some credibility when I say that the defining element of the Apostolic movement is zeal for the Lord... Your strength is often also your weakness... We have done some harm by being zealous in a less than temperate way... as pastors, as parents, as soul- winners... Medicine is such a respectable profession today... But this wasn’t always so… There were honorable physicians among the Jews, but the writings of the rabbis include this line: “The best among the physicians are destined for hell.” And so, in the Mishnah, physicians are listed among the “trades of robbers.” If a doctor wanted to cheat you... there would be very little you could do about it. The Hippocratic Oath bans doctors from poisoning their patients. Strange. But consider the Romans...Romans hated their doctors. Rome’s first official physician, Arcagthus, was given the nickname Carniflex, meaning executioner. Roman physicians were, however, expert poisoners, an

  • Talking to People About God/Pt 4 "Addiction"

    01/10/2020 Duración: 41min

    September 30 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms • Anything that has power over a person can be an addiction. • Once a person reaches a point of pain where they realize that they have a problem, it's like a switch goes off and they are ready for change. • Until a person reaches the point for change, it will be difficult to minister to them. • Shame is not beneficial spiritually, however conviction from God is mixed with Promise and is very beneficial. • Shame will turn people away from the spiritual organization that wants to help them. • People suffering from shame need to collide with the love of God. Some may try to be good enough, but by doing so, miss the Truth of grace. • Temptation and ultimately overcoming it through Christ can become a testimony for living victoriously. • It's not only the testimony of instant deliverance that glorifies God, those that have to overcome because deliverance wasn't immediate, greatly glorifies the Lord. • God loves you where you are, and for who you are. • Believers can sometime

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