Bethesda Shalom

Paul shares a very passionate plea, calling believers in Christ to love one another.  In an age of apostasy where Christians are earnestly contending for the faith, it is very easy to give place to offence and allow the love of God to grow cold in your heart.  This message will stir and challenge your heart to rekindle your first love!!  This message is part of The Sanctuary Conference 2015.  For...

Alan brings a very practical message to encourage the body of Christ in times of difficulty and need.  Are you feeling pressed down and struggling to see past a certain difficulty that has come upon you, then this message will certainly lift up your eyes towards the Saviour and bring hope into your situation. This message is part of The Sanctuary Conference 2015.  For information about future conf...

In this message, Harold brings an urgent call for the Church to rediscover the awesome fear of the Lord in a generation where by and large, the fear of God is non-existent! This message is part of The Sanctuary Conference 2015.  For information about future conferences please visit: http://www.sanctuaryconference.co.uk For more messages and teachings by Harold Vaughan, visit:  http://www.christlif...

In the day and age where so much division exists in the Body of Christ, particularly over secondary matters of doctrine, pride and offence; a powerful exhortation is delivered by Paul calling the Body of Christ to unity in obedience to the high priestly prayer of Jesus Christ as found in John Chapter 17.  Whilst the wold calls for a false unity, our prayer is that the true Bride of Christ would ag...

1 Samuel 17:1-54 Behold the specimen of a man...Goliath of Gath, the champion of the Philistines!!  For 40 days, morning and evening, this ferocious giant challenged the armies of Israel to put forward a man to fight him.  Fear gripped the armies of Israel as they looked upon Goliath's huge and menacing stature, concluding in the natural that there was no hope!!  Dear Christian, what is the Goliat...

John 1:43-47 Our Lord said of Nathaniel..."Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!  He who searches the hearts of men and tries the inner most thoughts and intentions could say of this man that he was the genuine article and not a fake.  I wonder...could Christ say such words of you and I; "Behold a Christian indeed, in whom is no deceit"?  The missing ingredient and the root cause of so...

Romans 1:13-16 In the day and age in which we live, an ascending cry is being heard, sounding forth from those dissatisfied with the old paths.  It is a cry for the "new"; change has become the buzz word of our day, out with the old and in with the new!!  Society fueled by the Western media now prides itself that it is at last emerging from the puritanical and bigoted age of Victorianism, to a new...

Joshua 24:13-15 Brethren, we are living in unprecedented times; all around us, to our left and right, before and behind lies the world with all of its lures and attractions.  To be a Christian in this generation, in this hour, in this location calls for a special effort on our part and a single-mindedness birthed out of a conviction that though living in the world, we are not going to be of this w...

Luke 1:80 "Only one life, 'twill soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last.  And when I am dying, how happy I'll be, if the lamp of my life has been burned out for Thee".  The words of C.T Studd still live on and continue to speak to the depths of our hearts!  Brethren, I believe with all my heart that God is doing a work in these last days in preparing a people for Christian service.  I...

Psalm 27 Jim Cottington Pastors a Church in West Sussex and is a council elder for Christian Ministerial Fellowship International (CMFI).  In this sermon, Jim gives great encouragement and an exhortation to believers to stand fast and firm in the last days in which we find ourselves.  May the Lord minister to you through this sermon and provoke your heart to seek His face of the Lord in these diff...

1 Peter 1:13 The great commentator Albert Barnes in commenting upon the Christian's war against the prince of this world, wrote: "Satan does not carry on an open warfare. He does not meet the Christian soldier face to face. He advances covertly; makes his approaches in darkness; employs cunning rather than power, and seeks rather to delude and betray than to vanquish by mere force. Hence, the nece...

Hebrews 3:6-12 The common notion held by many when it comes to belief in God is "seeing is believing".  The cry goes forth, "show me and I will believe".  Many hold faith to be simply a leap in the dark; but the Bible rejects this idea and rather teaches that faith is a firm persuasion based upon an encounter with the living God!!  Faith is a conscious decision to place ones trust and confidence i...

Matthew 18:21-35 As Christians, we are duty bound and under solemn command by the King to keep the records clean when it comes to our debtors.  We are called by the Lord Jesus Christ to forgive those who have sinned against us and the Bible makes no allowances and no apologies.  Yet, there are many professing Christians who Sunday after Sunday, pour into Churches shouting hallelujah's with hands r...

Proverbs 11:13 The Bible speaks of a particular member of our body, so small and yet so powerful; "a little member, and boasteth great things...a fire, a world of iniquity...setteth on fire the course of nature; and is set on fire of hell...an unruly evil, full of deadly poison" (Jms. 3).  Which member is this the Bible alludes to?  The tongue!! We are exhorted, "If any man among you seem to be re...

1 Peter 2:11 The largest Christian newspaper in the world "The Christian Post", in an on-line article dated October 28th 2011, titled "Pornography in the Pew - A Hidden Sin, reported from leading surveys that 50% of Christian men and 20% of Christian women are addicted to pornography, 60% of Christian women admitted to significantly struggling with lust.  37% of pastors admitted that they struggle...

Luke 12:15 There is today in the West, what some call the “dream”, but I call deception and God calls wickedness!!  It is the sin of covetousness.  Behold how it has slain its ten thousands.  See the miserable plight of those leaving the poor habitations of the developing world and coming over to the West, chasing the dream and the lie that promised wealth brings with it, promised happiness and fu...

Genesis 4:1-9 If we could truly see how many have been slain and homes destroyed; the strife, the rivalry, the bitterness and resentment resulting from the sin of jealousy and envy we would be lost for words!!  Whole Churches have been split and homes left in tatters under a false guise and pretext, when the real issue underlying the destruction is the spirit of jealousy and envy!!  King Solomon p...

Proverbs 16:18 It has well been said that the sin of pride is first and chief among all other sins and indeed is the very root of all sin!!  Pride simply put is having an inflated view of our own worth; it's arrogance and haughtiness; it is to usurp the throne of God which is His rightful seat alone.  How so you say?  In essence, pride says: "I will do what seems best by me" or in the word's of Sa...

Exodus 12:15-20 Spiritually, what sort of year has 2014 been for you?  Have you grown in spiritual maturity?  Have you deepened and maintained spiritual disciplines?  Have you been the spiritual shepherds of you home?  If the answer is an honest no, then it is more than likely that leaven has made its way into your home and has begun its corrupting influence in your life, the lives of your family...

How We Got Our Bible (Pt.12) In this final part in the series 'How We Got Our Bible' we explore the differences and similarities between some of our most popular English translations of the Bible  that are out there today.  We answer such questions as:  What is a formal equivalence translation and a dynamic equivalence translation?  How can you tell the difference?  What is a good translation of t...

John 12:24 Set before us in the verse at hand is the key to the Christian walk!  How many books have been written, how many sermons preached, giving the five-step formula to Christian success, when the essence and heart of the matter is contained in this single verse before us.  Why is it that men for the most part don’t like the key that Jesus extends, but instead prefer in vain to cut their own...

How We Got Our Bible (Pt.11) The battle rages today in some evangelical circles as to which the are best Greek manuscripts to use in translating the New Testament.  Some argue that the Byzantine manuscripts are more reliable because there are far more of them, whilst others argue that the Alexandrian manuscripts are more reliable because though fewer in number, the age of the manuscripts are far c...

How We Got Our Bible (Pt.10) As of October 2014, the Bible has been translated into some 2883 languages.  This statistic represent a staggering 98% of the world’s population.  In spite of this, there are still global projects underway to see the Bible translated into many more languages.  God in His infinite sovereign wisdom chose to have the original inspired Autographa written in the languages o...

How We Got Our Bible (Pt.9)  In comparing the figures for the amounts and dates of the available manuscripts for classical Greco-Roman authors with that of the New Testament, there is no way that the charge can be levied against the New Testament that we cannot know what originally written whilst at the same time quoting authors of classical antiquity.  This is because New Testament scholars have...

Leviticus 10:1-11 The key ingredient missing in today's Christianity that was not missing in generations past is the fear and reverence of God and the things pertaining to Him!  There was a time when even sinners knew, Church was not a place for joke and idle chit-chat, the sanctuary was the sanctuary!!  There was no place for entertainment in the pulpit and the people of God in the pews had a gre...