Bethesda Shalom

1 Kings 18:21

The title of this morning's sermon is a very searching one; one that demands an honest and forthright answer. It calls aloud to the lukewarm fence-sitter to get off the fence; it beckons the double-minded to depart from his unstable ways and to make a solid stand for Christ. It pleads with those living in the murky shadows of the twilight dawn to step out into the morning light. It forces one's hand if you like to make a decision — for me, or against me? In or out? — HOW LONG HALT YE!! If ever such a cry needed to be heard in the hour in which we live, it would be this cry. If ever men were to be awakened out of their slumber so as to be brought to their senses, I can think of no better question that should be put to them than that which Elijah confronted the nation with in his day — HOW LONG HALT YE?

Luke 18:1-8

Sometimes there's a delay in the place of answered prayer. This sermon explores some of the reasons why this may be the case. While waiting on God, we must never lose sight of His omnipotence. We ought always to intermingle with our prayers the faith of expectation!

Acts 11:26

This sermon is an urgent call to discipleship. May God both challenge you and encourage you to go on with Jesus, NO TURNING BACK!

Brother Ryan preaches the Word of God passionately, touching on the social and moral issues of the day with great poignancy. May the Lord minister to you through this sermon.

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1 Corinthians 15:9-13

What kind of father fails ever to discipline his son? What kind of mother lets her children grow wild without ever pruning them? The world calls this love, but the Word of God says, "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes" (Prov. 13:24).

In this fourteenth and last teaching part in the Church series, we turn our attention to the topic of Church discipline. When the Church gives the green light to professing believers living in willful sin, it fails to convey the correct message from God. God is not okay with His people sinning, and His Church need to communicate the same for the purity of the Body and the restoration of the sinner.

Acts 20:28

Mention the word leadership today, and you're bound to be met with a mixture of varied responses ranging from the largely pessimistic to the nominally optimistic! Stick the word "Church" in front of "leadership" and any trace of optimism there was speedily vanishes away!! Try as one may to dress things up and paint a positive picture, when many hear the words "Church leadership", they are left with a bitter taste in their mouth! I wish I could say that such ill feelings are misguided and misjudged, but I can't. It is with good reason that Church Leadership over the last few decades has received such a bad rap.

In this 13th sermon part, we turn our attention to see what God has to say in His Word about Church leadership. It's time to bring the standard back into leadership.

Ephesians 4:11

There is a plague today that is infesting the Western Evangelical Church and greatly harming the Ekklesia. It's this notion of individualism — that I can be a dismembered member of Christ's Body and still somehow function in ministry. You'll search the pages of the New Testament in vain to find such a pattern! In every place you see ministry, you will see members connected to the Body!! The gifts are given to the BODY — a local assembly of committed individuals/believers. Different gifts are given to different members within that local assembly for the profit of the whole BODY. This whole idea that one can be dismembered from a local assembly and yet be serving in "ministry" is a farce, and nowhere is this travesty more seen than in the field of evangelism!!

John 4:28

May the Lord bless you through His servant Jason. There is something for everyone in this timely sermon.

1 Corinthians 12:31

The Church of Jesus Christ is first and foremost a spiritual body of believers who have had a supernatural encounter with the Living God, and through the new birth have been grafted into Christ's spiritual body. Jesus Christ is the spiritual head, and from Him flows down to each member, every spiritual blessing and spiritual gift needed for the sound nourishment and spiritual growth of the entire body. These spiritual gifts are not mere niceties that make for a cosy addition; instead, they are crucial components required for the spiritual building of Christ's Church.

In this eleventh teaching part, we examine the proper attitude that is required to excel in these gifts for the blessing of the Body.

Acts 20:33-35

Does God bless His people financially? ABSOLUTELY!! But the immediate question that must arise following this answer is What for? Why does God bless His people financially? So that we might be a giving people!! This attitude ought to be at the heart of our giving in the Church.