Sermons @ Salford Elim Church
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Living Straight (1 Thessalonians 2:1-12)
Paul lived without spin – he was aware that he could manipulate people and situations – but he wanted to live holy and whole – his calling was to the church.
Living as models (1 Thessalonians 1:5-10)
The danger of settling for a ‘safe’ faith is that it's not worth hearing about.
Living the Gospel (1 Thessalonians 1:1-4)
The church finds its identity by being ‘in God’ – we get our self-awareness from this relationship. Then we live it out...
Seeing differently, acting differently - The writing’s on the wall (Daniel 5)
When you live a life of wisdom there may well come a moment when you have to be courageous as you take a stand for what you believe God has asked you to do.
Seeing differently, acting differently - it’s all about worship (Daniel 3)
The story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who were thrown into a furnace for not obeying the king, and how this story relates to us today.
So what did you expect when you were given more responsibilities?
When God chooses to do something new for the world, he chooses people. People who are often put in positions that feel uncomfortable, that feel like it’s not possible to survive.
New song - When Monday Comes
Here's a new song we will be introducing at church this Sunday.
So what did you expect when you got married?
Our lives are built around expectations at the different stages of our lives. Our resilience is developed as life occasionally fails to live up to expectations.
So what did you expect singleness to look like?
We expect love to lead to partners for life, but it may not have done, or the partner left us, or died and we ended up single... How do we make sense of that?
So what did you expect when you became a Christian?
How does the reality of being a Christian compare to your expectations?