Sermons @ Salford Elim Church

There’s no place for competition or comparison. We need one another so that we can all be built up to become the beautiful churches that the world needs.

Four people recently made public commitments to their faith in Jesus as their Lord and Saviour! Watch and listen back as we explored the meaning of baptism, and as we celebrated the commitments made by those who were baptised.

Teachers help us see how everything connects. They open our eyes to see things differently. They point out what has always been there – but which we had never noticed.

‘Pastor’ has become a title rather than the function, a shepherd, that it was originally. The church needs shepherds as much as it has ever done. People who will make sure that everyone is cared for.

What’s the difference between witnessing and evangelising? Evangelists get a bad press. But they are people who take great joy in helping people meet Jesus.

Every Christian can hear God speaking to them. So what role do those who have the gift of prophecy play? Can you grow into this and if so, how?

Were apostles only for the first century church, or does God still gifts some of us with these gifts for the sake of the church? What might that look like?

to a divided church, Paul highlighted the character that individuals needed to ensure that everyone could move forward together. On Sunday, we began a new 7-part sermon series, exploring Ephesians chapter 4.

On Sunday, we celebrated this milestone together - reflecting on the past and looking towards the future.

Like individuals, churches have personalities formed by gifting, calling and experience. As we look ahead, we need to ensure that we move in line with the community that God has called us to be.

Salford Elim Church has a history but it also has an inheritance. There are things in our history that shaped us, and that should still shape us as we move into the future. Exploring them will feed our faith.

If you knew what the person sitting next to you did in secret last week, you’d probably think they don’t belong in church… Then again, what if they knew about you? Jude teaches us how Christ’s love and truth work together to keep hypocrisy out of the church, while keeping hypocrites in.

Do our lives look any different to those around us?  What difference does the gospel make to our lives?

Rules come at us from many places. Some protect us while others restrict and diminish us. What do we do for the eyes of man, rather than for the love of, and submission to God?

The gospel message is simple but so significant to our lives when fully grasped. What impact can the gospel message have on your life today?

Jesus is the centre of the universe, and only in him does everything hold together. He should be the centre of our lives too.

Sunday was the beginning of our new sermon series titled ‘A Better Story’, where we began exploring the letter to the Colossians.

Listen or watch back to our Pentecost Sunday joint service with St James’ congregation.

Self-centredness and self-entitlement are ugly things. Like Jonah, we can easily care more about our own comfort than the salvation of others. We need God to give us his heart for the world.

After the whole city of Nineveh repented, you would have thought Jonah would have been ecstatic – it was an incredibly successful street outreach! However, his self-righteous prayer shows just how much he still had to learn about the mercy of God. We may be the means of God’s mission, but we must also heed the message for ourselves.

Despite our disobedience, God refuses to give up on us – his mission is far too important. Through Jonah, God used a message of judgement to change a whole city. As we are obedient to God’s missional call, we may well be surprised by how people respond.

Like Jonah, we often try in vain to run from God’s call to mission, but he will use any means necessary to get our attention and to expose our fears and prejudices: sometimes storms, sometimes the very people we are trying so hard to avoid.

A celebration of salvation. We joined together and heard from different voices sharing what God has done in their lives, and we remembered the significance of the resurrection for us all.

We all want peace: world peace and personal peace. But do we know what will bring us the peace we all seek? In his final week on earth, Jesus entered a city that was in turmoil, but they didn't recognise him as the one who offered the only thing we all really need - peace with God.

This is the word that earliest Christians would repeat to one another – a cry that Jesus would come quickly. That history would be resolved. That all would be well. It’s a good prayer!