The King's Church International Audio Podcast

Today plenty of people know about Jesus and over a third of the world’s population claim to be His followers. Jesus has been called the most influential person in history. Yet Jesus was a man who was born in great poverty and for most of his life He was largely unknown. He worked as a carpenter. He didn't go to college. He never visited a big city. He never travelled far. He never married or had a...

What the world needs right now is a whole lot more of the real love and message of Jesus and a whole lot less of fake and negative religion. Of course there is no such species as a perfect Christian, but every real Christian will constantly aim to be more Christ like rather than just being religious. Jesus Himself was unjustly convicted, cruelly beaten and crucified as a result of the politics and...

All over the world people are turning to prayer in this time of global pandemic. So often, it is in tough times that people discover the power of prayer. Abraham Lincoln, president over a country divided by a horrific Civil War, said: "I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." Today, as we face so many challenges in the nations and i...

As we conclude this series on how to win in life, one of the most basic keys to overcoming every difficulty is the key of perseverance. God wants to bring us blessings of many kinds, but you have to keep going in life to receive them. There are times when we may find it hard to keep going, when we may not know how we can or we have little strength to do so. But whatever situation you may be facing...

Every top athlete knows that dedicated training is key to peak performance. And throughout the Bible we see how God raised up many outstanding leaders, yet He only deployed them in action after intensive training, sometimes lasting many years (eg Moses, Joseph and Daniel). The greatest example of the importance of training is seen in the training of 12 disciples by Jesus. He recruited a group of s...

Today is the day for you to receive great healing in your heart. Throughout the world today, millions of people are heartbroken. They continue to suffer deep emotional wounds because of rejection, abandonment, betrayal, and pain they have experienced. Maybe you are one of them, but you do not have to continue living with these wounds in your heart. These negative feelings can be eliminated from yo...

The Bible is very clear that this world is a battleground between the kingdoms of Darkness and Light. In his book ‘The Christian Warfare’ Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones states ‘The teaching of the Bible is that this world in which we live is a battle-ground, is a place in which we literally have to fight for our souls, to fight for our eternal welfare.’ The Bible not only speaks about the reality of spirit...

Keeping the right focus is one of the big secrets of success in the Christian life and of life in general. In fact, scientists consider the ability to establish mental focus as an important predictor of a person’s future success. Sir Alex Ferguson, one of the greatest ever football managers, very clearly understood the power of focus. He said in his book, Leading: ‘I have yet to encounter anyone w...

Sometimes, when you have made mistakes, it's hard to believe that you can have a turnaround in your life. But you can have a second chance, especially when you discover that God is the God of the Second Chance. In the Bible we read of how many people had a second chance. Moses went into hiding for years after killing someone, but he ended up as the great leader of his people. David was so scared o...

Giving is one of the greatest secrets to winning in life. In a world of grabbing and getting and 'give me', it is actually those who learn to give who really live. Sir Winston Churchill said “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give". Anne Frank said: "No one has ever become poor by giving", and Francis of Assisi stated "For it is in giving that we receive". Giving is at...

As we continue our series on how to win in life, this week we look at how you can win when you have big setbacks and more problems than you know how to deal with. David, Israel’s greatest king, went through some exceedingly difficult experiences in his life. We often hear how David conquered nations and had many breakthroughs and blessings, but there was a time when he lost everything (1 Samuel 30...

Our words have tremendous power to change our lives, our relationships, our families, our churches and the world around us. This can be for good or bad. Proverbs 18:21 tells us that "the tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit", and Proverbs 15:2 teaches that "the tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit." In o...

Churches all over the world have been told by governments that they must not sing together to stop the pandemic spreading. So churches must play our part in supporting governments and praying for all in authority as they struggle to protect the health of nations. But we must take great care as Christians that the church as a people does not lose its song. No government or virus must stop us praisi...

As we continue our series looking at ‘How To Win In Life’, this week we see how we can Win By Faith. Faith in God is one of the main teachings of the Bible. Faith is the key that opens a world of unlimited possibilities to us. Faith in Jesus Christ is what frees us from sin and religious condemnation. Faith is what causes us to live above our circumstances not under them. Faith is so powerful that...

As we continue our series looking at ‘How To Win In Life’, this week we see how we can Win By Discovering The Power Of The Blood Of Jesus. Revelation 12:11 says: “They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.” To see great conquest in life, we need to become experts in the power of the blood of Je...

God loves you and He wants your life to be a success not a failure. God wants you to achieve your potential. In life you will face difficulties and discouragements, criticisms and negative circumstances, tears and maybe tragedy. But in all, through all and overall God wants you to be what the apostle Paul calls ‘more than conquerors.’ Jesus said, ‘what will it profit a man who gains the whole worl...

During our series 'A New Season Of Love', we have seen how loving God can change our lives, and how God wants us to receive His love so that we can love ourselves. We have understood how we can truly love our families, and what loving our neighbour really looks like in practice. This week we conclude our series by seeing what it means to love our enemies. In the summer of 1946 in St Louis, Missour...

In Luke 10:30-37, we read the story of a traveller who ignored danger to help a total stranger who was bleeding and dying. He is known as The Good Samaritan. It’s a story that challenges every one of us and shows us how we need to care for people in need, no matter what their background. Jesus had been teaching that the two great priorities of life are to ‘Love the Lord your God with all your hear...

As we continue our series, 'A New Season Of Love', we have so far looked at How Loving God Can Change Your Life when we make that the most important priority, affecting every area of our lives and resulting in great change in our lives. Last week we saw How You Can Love Yourself through understanding you were made in the image of God, that you are greatly loved by Him and by receiving a new identi...

Last week Pastor Wes taught us all about How Loving God Can Change Your Life. This was the first and most important commandment that Jesus taught about in Mark 12:28-31: …And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other commandment gr...

In this time of pandemic and uncertainty it is so important that we focus on the only thing that can drive out fear, and that is love. We find real love when we discover the love of God and share that love with everyone we meet. Jesus made clear that this is the core foundation of life. We read in  Mark 12:28-31: And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing...

Every time we break bread and drink wine as Jesus taught, we remind ourselves and others of the greatest person and the greatest events in all of history. Luke 22:19 tells us how Jesus 'took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me."' As we also see in Acts 2:42, what we call communion was one of the four key distinc...

Jesus taught his disciples to pray for God’s kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven. His disciples prayed for the Holy Spirit to come, and when the Holy Spirit came on men and women and for people of all nations and ages, they were filled with a new love and spiritual power. Prayer was one of the four key distinctives of the first century church. Acts 2:42 says 'They devoted themselves to the...

Real Church is not about religious traditions. It is about relationships with God and one another. Acts 2:42 says 'They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.' Last week Pastor Wes spoke about the first of the four basic practices which were the foundation for the continued growth of the church. He talked about how the apostles alway...

When things get really dark in the world, it is the church alone, that can become the brightest beacon of hope. Today the Holy Spirit is bringing new strength to the church. When the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit, they had a new love for God, a new love for those who don’t know God and a new love for the people of God, of all backgrounds and ages. From that moment the church grew rapi...