The King's Church International Audio Podcast

Despite much opposition and many attacks on the church over the past 2000 years, the church of Jesus Christ is still going strong. So how is this possible? The church, both local and universal, is the unique agency that God works through to achieve His purposes. Governments, politicians, businesses, philosophers and philosophies come and go but the church of God is key to changing the world for go...

Giving thanks and praise to God from a pure heart is one of the most powerful things Christians can do in this world. It moves the heart of God and can bring about real change in the lives of those who discover and apply this simple truth. Wherever you see Christianity thriving, you will find a strong emphasis on praising and worshipping God as saviour, healer and deliverer. In Acts chapter 16, Pa...

The phrase ‘when one door closes, another opens’ is often used to encourage someone in a time of disappointment, but it has great truth for Christians too. In Acts 16 we see that, despite the existing churches daily growing and being strengthened in the faith, door after door appears closed for the apostle Paul and his companions to share the gospel further. But God had the right door just about t...

We live in a world of conflicts of many kinds. Conflicts can develop so easily even when people love one another. Unresolved conflicts can lead to divisions between couples, families, businesses, nations and even churches. Acts 15 begins with Paul and Barnabas coming into serious conflict with a particular group who wanted to tie non-Jewish believers to Jewish traditions, and ends with Paul and Ba...

Today of course it is fashionable to knock the church. Yet the New Testament tells us that Jesus gave His life for the church. He loves the church. He feeds and nourishes the church and He will return to earth for the church. The first century church was such a dynamic and revolutionary community that within just one generation Christianity spread throughout the Roman world, often in the face of g...

The Bible teaches that there is only one special One, the One true and all-powerful God, who alone deserves the honour and glory. As we continue our studies from the book of Acts, we see in Acts 14:8-20 that there was a big issue over whether Paul and Barnabas themselves were to be treated as gods or whether they were actually servants of God. In these verses we see how Paul and Barnabas were dete...

Are you enjoying your life? Do you have an inner happiness? The Bible teaches that every Christian can not only receive great joy from knowing the Lord but also that you can keep your joy in all situations (John 10:10 AMP; Hebrews 1:9; Romans 14:17). For Joy is a fruit of the Holy Spirit who we can know at all times. When God’s spirit lives in us, we don’t have to live in a constant state of stres...

On Sunday we continued our Spread The Fire series with special guest speaker, Pastor Cesar Castellanos, teaching us about Overcoming The Enemy. Pastor Cesar is the senior pastor of the International Charismatic Mission church in Bogota, Colombia, which has over 100,000 members. In Sunday's message, he explained how every Christian can overcome the enemy by using the principles we see in Acts 13:4-...

How do you spot a real Christian? How do you know if someone is truly walking the walk as a follower of Jesus Christ and not just talking the talk? Christians are Christ ones. The Greek word 'Christianos' meaning "follower of Christ", comes from another Greek word 'Christos' meaning "anointed one". The term 'Christian' stuck, not least because the first disciples were happily and unashamedly ident...

Many people are asleep to the possibility of miracles. Yet miracles do happen and they can happen to you. If you are going to be a real Christian, you also need to believe in miracles. Christianity is a supernatural faith. The God of the Bible is the God for whom nothing is impossible. Often in the Bible, in history and in life, the greatest miracles happen when everything seems hopeless. We see i...

To move forward in any area of life means leaving the safety of the known and getting out of your depth. That’s why Jesus told his disciples in Luke 5:4: ‘Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.’ At every age and stage of life and ministry we each have to decide whether or not to take a step of faith to see what lies on the other side of a door that God may be opening up to yo...

God can bring total turnaround for you and for anyone, no matter what state or stage your life is in right now. We see how this can happen by looking at one of the greatest examples in the Bible of how someone can radically change by knowing Jesus. The first Christians were persecuted for their faith, including by a highly educated, religious activist called Saul. He was violently opposed to Chris...

One of the greatest gifts we can share with others is the good news about Jesus. We read in Matthew 10:5-8 how Jesus sent out his 12 disciples and told them in verse 8: ‘Freely you have received; freely give.’ And that’s what they and the early Christians did so effectively after they were filled with the Holy Spirit. Great things can happen in families, cities and nations when ordinary Christians...

Just as warfare, in one form or another, is part of human history, so too the Bible teaches that there is an ongoing spiritual warfare with the Kingdom of darkness and the Kingdom of light in conflict (Ephesians 6:12). Opposition and even persecution come with the territory of being a Christian. Jesus faced the reality of attacks from the kingdom of darkness right from the time of his birth when H...

Last weekend, when we celebrated the birthday of the Christian church, we saw how the Holy Spirit suddenly brought new power to the group of disciples who had previously been very fearful. From that moment everything changed. The church grew suddenly to thousands of people and quickly moved into a new level of supernatural ministry. In Acts chapters 3 and 4 we read about one powerful miracle that...

Pentecost Sunday is a special day of celebration for all Christians. It marks the birthday of the Christian church when the Holy Spirit suddenly brought new life to the body of disciples who had been waiting expectantly for this moment. No one in Jerusalem 2000 years ago, gathered for one of the major Jewish feasts, could ignore the arrival of the infant church. For there were supernatural manifes...

One of the greatest needs of the church and the world today is a powerful new movement of the Holy Spirit. Next week on Pentecost Sunday we will focus on the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit that is recorded in Acts 2. But today we conclude our teachings from Acts 1 that shows that the coming of the Holy Spirit did not take place in a vacuum. It followed a process of preparation. Part of that p...

Prayer is always the foundation for a move of the Holy Spirit. Last week we heard how we needed to be filled or baptised with the Holy Spirit. In Acts 1:8, Jesus told the disciples that they would receive power when the Holy Spirit came upon on them. But it was not automatic. They needed to wait for this promised gift of the Holy Spirit. Their response was to not only wait but also to pray to rece...

Many of us know that we need to change in some way in our lives. We need to be more loving, more patient, more kind, more committed, more fruitful. But how can we actually change? Well the answer is that if we really want to see change in our lives, then we need the help of God. That can happen when we repent of our sins and we are 'born again' as Jesus put it. It is the Holy Spirit who gives us a...

The prospect of the Second Coming of Christ is foundational to us having great hope for the future and to living confidently in a world full of problems. If we want to be Biblical Christians and live with a faith-filled worldview, we cannot and must not lose our focus on God’s future plans for us and our world. Both the Old and New Testaments are full of promises about the return of Jesus Christ....

Last weekend we celebrated the greatest comeback in history; the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Everything was so dark on Good Friday but on Easter Sunday everything was totally turned around. The disciples however, like many of us, needed their own personal turnaround. For the disciples had failed and failed badly. Judas had betrayed Jesus and was never seen again, and the 11 other disciple...

This Easter, even though we are meeting online or with limited gatherings, we can still rejoice in the unchanging truths that Christ really died and really was raised back to life again. Two thousand years on, despite countless attempts to eradicate Christianity, literally billions of people have not only been inspired by the Easter story, but they have also personally experienced the power and pr...

For Christians the crucifixion of Jesus is the defining moment of history and the key to everyone's eternal destiny. The Cross of Christ is the greatest key for help, hope and healing for the world. The Bible teaches that, in contrast to human wisdom, you can discover great power in your life through the cross of Jesus (1 Corinthians 1:18). The suffering and sacrifice of Jesus on the cross was nec...

Both Old and New Testaments provide many examples of miraculous healings. One of the names for God in the Bible is Jehovah Rophe meaning ‘the God Who Heals.’ The translation from the Hebrew means ‘to completely make whole, to thoroughly mend and repair.’ The God of the Bible cannot only heal physical disease but also personal sadness, mental anxiety and emotional wounds and the pain from our sins....

Today in this long and continuing time of COVID, one of the biggest problems for millions of people all around the world is that they have not had time to be with friends and family and have felt so alone. Day after day, month after month, people have missed the human contact, support, encouragement and of course hugs. Friendship is such a big issue. Unfortunately, in the world today, friendship f...