Today we are going to start a seven part series looking at the Holy Spirit. Elim has produced a Holy Spirit Course, which is video-based, and a book. We will be able to show the course as a follow up to Alpha, in Growth Groups and YA. But what we are going to do before that is to preach through the big themes abut the Holy Spirit. Buckle up, here we go. When I became a Christian it was from a non-church background. In fact, it was the opposite. My mother had been acting a spiritual medium on our estate. She held séances in our home, used to read tea-leaves (due to Romany background) and at one point wrote the horoscopes for the Reading Evening Post. I have seen and experienced things in that house that I knew were powerful. Now the supernatural gets a bad wrap because of the enemy's counterfeit. But the bad stuff comes under the heading of “occult’ which means hidden. It’s done in secret. The Bible warns us about this (Deut 18: 9-14; 2 Chron 33:6; Galatians 5:19-20). The goo...
Isaiah 54: 2-3: Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. 3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities. We are on the final countdown to two morning services. If you come at 10am next week you’ll be in the middle of a service. Our service times are going to be: 9am and 11:15am. When I was a lad I’d go to the movies. It’s not like now where you get allocate seating. Then you got you ticket and could sit anywhere. Also, you could turn up half-way through the movie, sit through to the end, wait ten minutes, and watch the start of it up to the point you came in. Some of you are thinking of taking up that option. It is not an option! There will be Limitless Kids and youth in both services. Pr...