Bethesda Shalom

Revelation 3:14-22 One author dubbed this Church as “the Church of which there was nothing good to say”. Christ had the right to find His people burning in their love, devotion and service to Him, yet when He came He found a people that were neither hot nor cold. What was the crime of the Laodiceans? The sin of being lukewarm!! Oh dear brethren, this chilling reality is that this describes MOST pr...

Bible Prophecy (Pt.8) Matthew Chapter 24 is known as the Olivet Discourse and is key to understanding the run-down of events in the last days prior to the return of Jesus Christ. Jesus in seeking to prepare His disciples and those coming after them for the days that lay ahead in the intervening period from His ascending into heaven until His coming back again, spoke of wars, rumours of wars, famin...

Revelation 3:7-13 Twenty-eight miles south-east of Sardis lay the city of Philadelphia;  so named after Attalus Philadelphus, the king of Pergamos who founded it in the second century BC.  Its name means “brotherly love and is a fitting name for a Church that would later be born in that city!  Its natural geography served well to illustrate the robustness of this Church in bearing up under trial. ...

Revelation 3:1-6 Sardis was a great city of the ancient world, a very wealthy and prosperous city.   Into this city came the Gospel and the Church at Sardis was born!!  The fame of their conversion and the fruits thereof were sounded out near and far, and overtime Sardis had amassed a reputation for being a Church that was alive!!  Sadly, overtime the testimony of this Church had become nothing mo...

Revelation 2:18-29 Despite the many hard things that our Lord had to say to His Church in Thyatira, it is often overlooked that He had some of the best things to say also to some within this Church who were shining examples. He commended them for their charity, service, faith, patience and works. In fact not only had this Church begun well, but they were praised that their last works were more tha...

Bible Prophecy (Pt.7) On May 14 1948, in a single day, a nation was born as Israel declared its national independence. For some 1900 years the Jews have wondered the world over having no national homeland, suffering in every place they have sought to lay their head. AD 70 witnessed the tragedy of the destruction of the Jewish Temple and the beginning of the diaspora as Jews were exiled en-mass to...

Revelation 2:12-17 This sermon is the third part in a series looking at the letters to the seven Churches of Revelation.  Pergamos was a city distinguished as being one of the chief centres of religious worship, its landscape littered with shrines and altars to the false gods and goddesses of the Greek/Roman world.  In the words of Jesus Christ, the seat of Satan himself!!  As a Church under inten...

Bible Prophecy (Pt.6) When one mentions the name Christianity, automatically one is prone to think of a Western religion with predominantly Western followers.  Images of stain glass windows, church spires and other medieval religious paraphernalia spring at once to mind.  What would you say if I was to tell you that Christianity did not have its inception in the West but in the Middle East in Jeru...

Revelation 2:8-11 This sermon is the second part in a series looking at the letters to the seven Churches of Asia Minor. The Church in Smyrna was a Church under fire! They were already in the midst of tribulation and were patiently bearing up under trial, suffering persecution and poverty. Our Lord’s words to this Church were words of encouragement, having no bad thing to say. He forewarned His Ch...

Revelation 2:1-7 This sermon marks the first part in a series looking at the letters to the seven Churches of Asia Minor. These seven epistles comprise less than 1% of the New Testament and yet are some of the most powerful words in the New Testament. We need not wait for the coming of the Lord Jesus to see how we fair; we have the Lord's verdict already!! These seven epistles are applicable to th...

Bible Prophecy (Pt.5) In this second teaching part on Messianic prophecies fulfilled, we continue to explore the staggering prophecies concerning the person, life and ministry of the Messiah contained within the Holy Scriptures. His suffering and betrayal; His rejection and ridicule; His death and resurrection, were all foretold by the prophets, written hundreds of years before Christ’s advent…His...

Matthew 12:18-21 There along the lush green banks of the river Jordan, hugging its meandering paths lie scores of reeds; their long slender stems and firm brush-like heads project above the water's surface, swaying to and fro in the wind.  These delicate plants, so prone to bruising, oftentimes lay bent over, its heavy head drooping, the shattered stems no longer able to support the weight.  There...

Bible Prophecy (Pt.4) Perhaps one of the most powerful and fascinating themes of Bible prophecy are the prophecies surrounding Israel’s Messiah. These prophecies are not isolated verses in pockets of places, but rather are interwoven throughout the books of the Old Testament from Genesis to Revelation, having their exact fulfillment in the person of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. These prophecies spell...

John 3:8 There exists a tragedy in our day…men are trying to do by natural means, that which only God can do by supernatural means! In today's Christianity, numbers mean everything…Church buildings the size of large warehouses need to filled and thus the world's methods of psychology and advertisement has come wholesale into the Church! Yet, Jesus said in speaking of the Holy Spirit, "…when he is...

Bible Prophecy (Pt.3) Enter the first century AD, Israel is dwelling again back in the land that God had promised to them nearly fifteen hundred years previously. Very soon after their return from captivity the second Temple was rebuilt; the cities that Nebuchadnezzar laid waste were once again inhabited including the capital city of Jerusalem. Upon their return however, Israel ceased to be a king...

Bible Prophecy (Pt.2) When we hear the phrase, “Israel, the birth of a nation”; our minds quite naturally are cast back to just over 65 years ago to 1948, when the Jewish people against all possible odds, miraculously defied the systematic state sponsored genocide of Hitler to wipe them off the face the earth and became a united nation again back in the land of Israel after some nearly 2000 years...

Bible Prophecy (Pt.1) Without question, one of the foremost claims to the Bible being the Inspired Word of God is prophecy.  A staggering 27% of the whole Bible is prophetic in nature!   “People are named before birth; kingdoms are outlined before their historical existence; battles are described before occurring, and personal destinies are delineated before the persons themselves are born…” -Bern...

Matthew 18:21:35 Paul Williams is a Pastor at Temple Baptist Church, Wolverhampton.  He delivers a very sobering and informative sermon looking at the consequences of failing to forgive others when offended.  He asks three fundamental and heart searching questions:  Why should we forgive; what are the consequences if we don't forgive; and how we should forgive?  I trust that this sermon will both...

Proverbs 24:30-34 There is not a day that goes by that we are not required to take our place on the battlefield!  The flesh, the world and the devil are our avowed enemies, bent on our destruction!!  All around, I see the multitudes of casualties scattered across the mountains, strewn across the hills.  An urgent and pressing call sounds forth in this sermon, exhorting the Church of Jesus Christ t...

Session 4 of 4 In this final part, Roger comprehensively and very competently demonstrates that the Emergent Church through its many spiritual disciplines and exercises that are rooted in Roman Catholic mysticism are not only taking many misled Christians back to Rome but are in fact preparing people for the final end-times spiritual deception in preparation for the coming Antichrist.  The road to...

Session 3 of 4 In this third part, Roger comprehensively and very competently demonstrates the dangers of the Emergent Church, which claims to be emerging in these last days to meet the needs of a post-modern generation.  Rather than focussing on narrow doctrine, this new movement focusses instead on experience; but the many spiritual disciplines and exercises that it promotes and practises are ro...

Session 2 of 4 In this second part, Roger comprehensively and very competently demonstrates that what many within the Evangelical Church are calling the Holy Spirit is in fact not the Holy Spirit of the Bible but another Spirit that is leading people back to the Roman Catholic Church.  You will be informed, warned and equipped during the course of this teaching so as not to be deceived.  We are ex...

Session 1 of 4 In this first part, Roger comprehensively and very competently demonstrates that the Roman Catholic Jesus is in fact not the Jesus of the Bible but another Jesus, namely the Eucharistic Jesus.  You will be informed, warned and equipped during the course of this teaching so as not to be deceived.  The New Evangelisation program of the Roman Catholic Church is a program that leads one...

Alan shares very powerfully his hearts burden for prayer.  He shares many testimonies of that I'm sure will stir your hearts and provoke you to seek the Lord in prayer in this desperate and needy hour!! This message is part of The Sanctuary Conference 2015.  For information about future conferences please visit: http://www.sanctuaryconference.co.uk

Harold brings a very practical, challenging and heart searching message regarding the sin of unforgiveness.  The long and short of it is, are our hearts clear towards those who have offended us?  That offences will come is absolutely certain, both from within the Body of Christ and without.  The question at hand is; what will we chose to do with those offences and with those through whom the offen...