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Thank you for tuning into this Sunday teaching podcast. In this message Elder Bash asks the question; What do you want God to do for you?
Thank you for tuning into this Sunday teaching podcast. This week Pastor Duncan shares a follow on message on becoming like children.
Thank you for tuning into this Sunday teaching podcast. This week Pastor Duncan shares a message titled; 'Become like Children'.
Thank you for tuning into this Sunday teaching podcast as we listen back to Pastor Duncans teaching on Easter Sunday.
Part 1 of a 2 part teaching series based on Pastor Duncan's latest book; 'Live deeply'.
Come and joins for the launch of Pastor Duncans latest book; Live Deeply. In this service Pastor Duncan shares some of his reasons for writing this book and introduces some of its key themes.
Pastor Joe shares this Sunday about what it looks like to be a messenger of the good news. Why and how?
What does it look like to be a mouthpiece for God's truth and justice in our world, on our frontlines
This Sunday Pastor Gaz speaks on how to minister with grace and love on our frontlines like Jesus did.
Beverley Samways speaks on what it looks like to bring the Kingdom of God onto and into our frontlines.
Pastor Shirene speaks on getting the nets ready for what God is going to do. Making, cleaning and mending the nets.
In this last talk of our Psalm 23 series, Pastor Duncan speaks on the last verse about dwelling in the Lord's presence.
In this penultimate talk of our Psalm 23 series, Pastor Joe Davis speaks about the fact that our victory is found at the table in relationship and communion with the Father.
Pastor Duncan speaks on the Suffering of Jesus in the last instalment of our Desire series.
The first of a new series resetting our strongest desires on our desire for God by Pastor Duncan Clark
James Aladiran speaks on this Presence Conference weekend. A powerful word, you will want to listen again..
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The first in our new Series the Way of Love. Pastor Duncan introduces the series talk about the simple message of how we are loved by our Father God.
Pastor Duncan speaks on 'House Rules'. Our collective house rules as the Coventry Elim Church community.
Guest Speaker Cathy Madavan speaks about courage and offers encouragement from Joshua 1
This is the last talk from Pastor Duncan before he goes off on a three-month Sabbatical. He speaks on Pentecost Sunday.
What does it mean to have a wellbeing mindset? The first talk of "the wellbeing journey" series
Looking for Sign. Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. (Isaiah 7:14)
History, Integrity and Humility - The first part in our Christmas season series Heaven on Earth
The One Series - Making sure we are planted by the stream, in good soil and in community.
Pastor Shirene speaks form the story of Daniel, Shadrach, Mishach and Abednego about having Faith Even If circumstances don't quite work out
This Sunday Pastor Duncan speaks about what it means to live deeply; to remain in Him and to lean in
This week is the finale to our Return and Rebuild Series where Joe Davis highlights the work of the Hand of God in our lives.
This week Pastor Duncan continues the series speaking about times when joy mixes with sorrow
In this week's talk Pastor Duncan speaks about God moving not only hearts but also our hands to serve
Pastor Shirene shares about when God moves your heartland the kind of heart God seeks after
Pastor Duncan brings a second talk in our latest series Return and Rebuild in which he makes a call to 'unsettle the settled'.
This week is the launch of the Return & Rebuild Series. Pastor Duncan launches speaking about the call God is calling us to in the next season to return and rebuild.
This is the penultimate talk in our re:Think series. Pastor Duncan speaks about loving God with all of our mind.
In this week's talk, Joe Davis, our student worker speaks to us about what it looks like to have the Mind of Christ
Pastor Duncan speaks to us about the helmet of salvation in this third instalment of Re:Think
In this series Pastor Duncan opens the new series Re:Think with a call to renew our minds
This is a follow up talk in our series So Loved - Cries from the cross. We look at the verse from Matthew 27:32-46 - "...My God why have you forsaken me"
This Sunday, Pastor Duncan launches our new series So Loved - Cries from the Cross starting with forgiveness.
This week we are joined by Tim Robertson again as we celebrate our partnership with Compassion International
Here is this week's installment of The New Normal Series. Pastor Duncan talks about a lifestyle of surrendring.
This week Pastor Shirene draws lessons from King David; focusing on his courageous heart
This week, it was a pleasure to have David West from Bethel Sozo Ministries UK speak to us. He speaks on the differences between David and Saul's leadership styles.
Happy New Year! This week Pastor Duncan opens the new year with our new teaching series 'The New Normal'. We hope you enjoy this series of talks as we vengtrue into the New Year of what could be The New Normal.
In this week's talk, Pastor Duncan introduces the new series with a talk on the Spring season of life
In this talk, Pastor Duncan Introduces the new series called Set Apart focusing on the pursuit of Holiness
In this week's talk, Joe Davis shares on moving from restriction to recogntion of what God is doing
Pastor Duncan continues this week with our theme talking about moving from restriction to re-imagining
Pastor Duncan speaks on RESET this week in gthe follow up in our new series - Come Back Stronger
This morning Pastor Duncan shares a short message from 1 Kings 8:10-11 on these three themes: Completion, Restriction and Presence
This week Pastor Duncan continues on the talk shared by Pastor Shirene two weeks ago about What God is speaking to us and what we are doing about it. Pastor Duncan speaks about Frailty and Flexibility this week
This Sunday we had the privilege of hearing from Pastor Simon Foster; and he shares from his heart what he believs God is doing and saying this season as we go through a pandemic
Pastor Shirene asks two questions: What has God been Teaching you? What are you going to do about it?
In this unusual season, Pastor Duncan talks to us about where and how we find our security
This week Pastor Shirene continues on the Cruciform theme speaking on being shaped by the forgiveness of the cross
In the second instalment of this new series, Pastor Duncan speaks further on about a life shaped by the cross in practice
This is the first talk in a series on Cruciform - A life shaped by the cross. Pastor Shirene introduces the series
In the third part of our Devotional series, the Practice of The Presence of God, Pastor Duncan and Joe Davis tag team a talk about the practice of Solitude.
In the second part of our Devotional series, the Practice of The Presence of God, Pastor Shirene speaks about the practice of Stillness.
In this series, Pastor Duncan Clark introduces the new devotional series 'The Practice of The Presence of God'
Tim Robertson, partnership director at Compasison UK shares from the passage in John 6 and teaches around meeting the needs of others around us
Paul mentions in the book of 2 Corinthians that he lives with a 'thorn in his flesh'. Pastor Duncan explores what this means for Paul and for us today.
Gav is the CEO of the Evangelical Alliance that are made up of organisations, churches and individuals with he aim of making Jesus known. Having brings us an encouraging word from Marks Gospel.
As Ps. Duncan concludes our 'Expectant' series, he bring us a message for the new year about knowing who we are in Christ.
We often overlook the role in which Joseph played in the Christmas narrative. How does his life and how he lived it affect us today?
When Mary & Joseph received the promise from Good that they were going to raise the Son of God. How did they carry that level of expectancy in their lives. How did they see the promise through? Ps. Ryan shares 3 thoughts on we too can see the promises of God fulfilled in our own lives.
At our Christmas Carol concert, Ps. Duncan shares how Zechariah and Elizabeth had different reactions to the news that they were expecting a child.
James Aladiran leads a national prayer ministry called PrayerStorm. James is a gifted communicator who brings to us a challenging and encouraging word.
Ps. Shirene closes out our 'Thin Places' series by looking how the human heart should be the ultimate thin place. That having an open heart to what God wants for us, plus the magnificent presence of God equals a thin place.
As we conclude our 'Thin Places' series, we look at the disciples experiencing a thin place in the book of Acts.
We continue on our series with 'thin places', this week Pastor Ryan takes us through how we can build an intimate relationship with God through prayer.
On of our Elders, Beverly, unpacks what David says in Psalm 27. How can we cultivate the Thin Places in our lives by seeking out God?
This week, in the 5th part of our series 'Thin Places" Pastor Duncan looks at King Solomons temple and how we too can also experience God's glory in our lives.
After the Israelites left Egypt, The people of God built the Tabernacle, which housed the presence of God and could be moved to where the Israelites camped on their journey to the promise land. What does this mean for us and our 'Thin places' where we want to take the presence of God with us where God calls us.
After Moses led the Israelites out from Egypt. He received the 10 commandments from God. Even as the Israelites built the gold calf, God said he would keep his promise that the Israelites would enter the promise land, but they would go without the presence of God. This wasn't good enough fro Moses.
How does Moses experience a 'Thin Place' where he meets God and the gap between Heaven and Earth are tangibly thin?
What is the difference between 'spaces' and 'places'? Can we create thin places where the divide between Heaven and Earth seem wafer thin in Coventry?
One our Elders, Shirene, shares with us today from Hebrews 11 and gives us a formula to help make 'faith gains' - what we need to do in our lives to create growth in our faith.
When Elijah prayed for rain in 1 Kings he did so with great faith. Hearing the sound of the rainfall before he saw the clouds. How can we be a people who pray for the breakthroughs in our life like Elijah did?
As we continue our 'Overflow' Series, Ps. Ryan looks at how God wants to overflow us with hope and we can do that by growing our trust run him.
When we're overflowing with the Spirit of God, that overflow will often come across in our signing. Ps. Duncan looks at the reasons to why we sing songs of worship in church.
As we continue with our summer series 'overflow' one of our elders, Bev speaks this week about how we can be a people who speak life our of the abundance of our hearts.
In the forth instalment of our 'Overflow' series. Ps. Duncan shares from the book of Proverbs that we should 'Guard our hearts, for everything we do flows from it' How do we have a heart that is ready for the overflow.
When we often feel like we are lacking in so many areas, how do we see the overflow of God's provision in our lives?
In our second instalment of the 'Overflow' series, Ps. Duncan looks at the text from Joel 2 which speaks on a promise of new wine when the Israelites were experiencing extreme famine.
In the first of our 'Overflow' series, our Worship Director - Gaz, shares with us how we should live form the overflow of God and not live in the cycle of full to empty to full lives.
Ps. Duncan shares with us how the opposite spirit can help us be exalted by God. Where the culture of the world may say to be prideful and boastful of who we are and our achievements, Jesus calls us to something different.
Often we find ourselves needing to take rest from our work. Shirene offers us a different viewpoint, one that see's us work from a place of rest.
What does it look like to for us to bless when our natural instincts may be to curse? What is blessing and cursing and how do we bless people that changes both a situation and also changes us?
As we start a new teaching series. Ps. Duncan takes us through how we, by utilising an opposite spirit, rather than our natural response, to show the love of Christ.
Ps. Ryan takes us to Ezekiel 47 today. We look at what this passage could mean for us today. Why we should stay connected to God and what the result of that could look like.
We join with churches around the world to celebrate Pentecost Sunday. The day in which the Holy Spirit came powerfully to the early church.
As we continue our 'The Spirit Cries' series. Ps Duncan shares how the Spirit of God can grieve when He sees some of our actions. How as Christians do we live a life that the Holy Spirit sees and is pleased with and not grieves over.
The Spirit cries for us to Keep in step with Him. How do we do that and what will the results be? Ps. Ryan takes us to Gal 5 today to explore this.
As we run up to Pentecost we look at some of the role of the Spirit of God in our lives. We see from today's message that the Spirit cries out from us, to long after God and to yearn for him.
We have David and Greta Peters ministering to us this weekend. David and Greta move greatly in the prophetic and join us from New Zealand for a weekend of training and equipping. In our Sunday morning service David looks at where the Bible uses the Sparrow as a symbol.
We have David and Greta Peters ministering to us this weekend. David and Greta move greatly in the prophetic and join us from New Zealand for a weekend of training and equipping. We look tonight at the role of the tent of meeting in the Exodus narrative.
Today we take a look at Phil 4. Shirene, our Families Worker and Elder takes a look at how our reactions to situations will affect us and what the Bible says about how we should react.
Pastor Duncan takes us today to Jeremiah 29 and what it looks like for us to be a people that seek God with all of their hearts.
The message today is split into 2 smaller talks. Ps. Duncan shares about the temple curtain tearing in two and how that allowed us to enter the presence and love of God.
As we enter the Easter Weekend, Ps. Duncan shares our Good Friday message from 1 Cor 1:18.
This week Ps. Ryan shares with us from the story of Jesus triumphant entry to Jerusalem and how even though there was initial jubilation for his arrival, the Jesus the people of Jerusalem saw that day may not have been the Jesus they were expecting.
As we continue looking at how the church can be ready for the 'new' that God has for us, today Ps. Duncan looks at the need for us to have a growing capacity.
We finish our 'Lies That Lead Us' series this week with our Families Worker, Shirene, speaking on how the enemy can lie to us about our future and what the bible says to counter those lies.
In this week's sermon, Pastor Duncan unpacks what it looks like for us not to be defined by our past, yet to live in the reality that Jesus has called us out of that. We look at the disciple Peter and how even though he failed Jesus by denying him, God still used Peter mightily to proclaim the resurrection at the day of Pentecost.
This week we continue the series 'The Lies That Lead Us'. Ps. Duncan unpacks what it means to believe the lies said about us and the impact it has on us, whilst also looking at the truths of what God's word says about us.
We start a new series this week looking at how we often have incorrect assumptions on the character of God and how this will affect our view of God and our walk with Him.
In our final sermon from the 'Teach Us To Pray' series, Pastor Ryan bring us a word of how to Pray. A simple formula of 'Up' prayers of praise and thanksgiving. 'In' prayers of reflection and repentance and then 'Out' prayers of petition and intercession.
In our penultimate talk in our 'Teach Us To Pray' series we look at how we can go deeper in our prayer lives. Pastor Duncan takes us to the book of Ephesians and talks us through how to go deeper.
We are delighted to have Mark Pugh join us from Rediscover Church in Exeter. Mark speaks to us about becoming a strong church.
As we continue our 'Teach Us To Pray' series, we learn through the Lord's prayer a rhythm of how to pray.
Emma Stark joins us from Glasgow Prophetic Centre, Emma has a fantastic prophetic ministry in which she joins the church to train and teach us to greater lives in the prophetic realm.
Emma Stark joins us from Glasgow Prophetic Centre, Emma has a fantastic prophetic ministry in which she joins the church to train and teach us to greater lives in the prophetic realm.
Emma Stark joins us from Glasgow Prophetic Centre, Emma has a fantastic prophetic ministry in which she joins the church to train and teach us to greater lives in the prophetic realm.
Emma Stark joins us from Glasgow Prophetic Centre, Emma has a fantastic prophetic ministry in which she joins the church to train and teach us to greater lives in the prophetic realm.
Shirene, who is the church Family Worker and also an Elder, shares with us today on the importance of understanding all aspects of prayer. How we commune with God through our conversations with him and encounters through His word.
As we start a new series on prayer, Pastor Duncan unpacks to us what it means to desire prayer and that we should pray our realist prayers and not just what we think we should be praying.
Pastor Duncan shares a new year message with us this week. Jesus compared his ministry to 3 things in Matt 9; a wedding, a a piece of cloth and new wine and new wineskins. We look to how God could have been forming a new wineskin in us so that we can hold something new of God for this coming year.
Pastor Duncan speaks to us today from there first chapters of Luke's Gospel. We look at the story of Elizabeth and Zechariah and their promise of a child, even when they were old.
Pastor Duncan looks at how the favour of God came to rest on Mary. What does it means that God's favour rests on us and what can we do see God's favour on us more.
As we run into the Christmas period, one of our Elders who is also our Families Worker, Shirene, looks at the wise men in Matt 2 and how they came to be with Jesus in Bethlehem.
We're thrilled to have James Aladiran back with us who leads the ministry Prayer Storm. James speaks to us from Genesis 11 and asks us if like Abraham's father, Tereh, we too get stuck in our 'Harran' places.
Today Ps. Duncan brings us a message from Psalm 124 & Psalm 121. The Psalmist asks 'where does my help come from' and in the 121st Psalm we see that is is God that watches over us.
We had Mark and Nita Pugh as our guests for our church Encounter Weekend. Mark serves as Senior Minister of Rediscover Church, the Elim church in Exeter.
He is the God of order. He enters chaos and brings order. Not the order of the graveyard, but the order of life.
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He meets us in our mess. He delights in our complexity. He meets us in our vulnerability and gently heals and mends.
There is a time to laugh. There are moments of outrageous happiness. He turns our mourning into dancing. He laughs with us…and laughs at us! There is joy in His house.
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There is a time to weep. He meets us in our sorrow. He counts our tears; they do not go unnoticed. He comforts. He counsels. He restores.
We accept the invitation to intimacy. We become friends of God. He calls us close. We ‘remain’ in Him. We meet Him in the ‘secret place’.
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We keep our distance because He is holy. We meet Him on our knees. Our Friend is to be feared. He is the Lion, as well as the Lamb. He is dangerous. Unsafe.
We love God with our minds. We thrive on teaching. We absorb, memorize, meditate on the Word. We long to learn.
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We love God with our hearts. We allow information to become a catalyst for our transformation. We read for relationship. We expect Christ to be formed in us.
We are made uniquely. I am not like you. You are not like me. I have my own ‘shape’. You have yours.
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We are ‘one’. One unique beautiful body. Different yet the same. Better together than alone.
We say ‘come and see’. We create environments and live lives that, like a magnet, attract questions, create curiosity, and reflect the beauty of our beautiful God.
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We say ‘go and tell’. We are ‘everyday missionaries’. We send people onto the frontline of mission to every corner of the city, carriers of the Father’s presence.
We are tent-dwellers. We expect movement. We are early-adopters. We are always ready to jump-on the new thing God is doing.
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We keep showing up in the same place. We know that the signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency, and so we take steady, persistent steps in a singular, holy direction.
We love ‘suddenly’ moments. Moments when His presence fills a space and everyone in the room knows it.
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We know that those moments alone won’t sustain us. We lean into daily rhythms. Spiritual disciplines. The practices of Jesus. Call them what you want; they open our hearts to the presence of Jesus and the power of the Spirit, and it’s there that we long to live.
We long for God. There’s a soul-level hunger for His presence. A void that must be filled. We are compelled to seek out ways of living that are congruent with our deepest longings.
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We are full. Full of gratitude. Overflowing with faith, hope and love. Filled with His Spirit’s power and presence. We’ve experienced abundance. We know His riches. We lack nothing. We are complete.
Gaz Hutchinson who works as our Creative Director concludes our Thrive series today. We are looking at how Paul used and encouraged others on their own journey and how if we are to thrive in life then we do it with others alongside us.
Pastor Duncan continues our Thrive series looking at the book of Colossians. This week he speaks on keeping Jesus at the centre of our homes.
This week we continue with our summer series based on Colossians called 'Thrive'. Today one of Elders Shirene unpacks the text from chapter 3 and examines what it looks like for us to live with Jesus at the centre of our character.
Do our religious practices actually get in the way of our worship of Christ? Pastor Ryan takes a look from Colossians 2:16-23 at how Paul urges the Colossian church to keeps its focus on Christ.
Continuing our look through the book of Colossians. Pastor Duncan unpacks Colossians 2:1-15 and how Jesus should be the centre of our lives and how everything should flow from that truth.
This week Duncan continues with week 2 of summer our series based on the book of Colossians. He unpacks the idea that if Jesus is Everything then he can be everything in us and through us if we place him at the centre of our lives.
We kick off our summer series working our way through the book of Colossians. Pastor Duncan looks at the first 14 verses of the book and how Paul directs us to Jesus being the very centre of the church.
Simon Foster is the Regional Leader for the Elim in the South West and Wales. Simon has a gifting in the prophetic and longs to see the church come into an intimate relationship with God.
We welcome back David and Greta Peters who are joining us from New Zealand. We often think of the word 'but' having negative connotations. But David shows us through Scripture how God works for our good through all situations.
In our final week of our 'Don't Hold Back' series, Pastor Duncan continues his look the life of Elisha.
F.O.M.O. stands for 'fear of missing out'. Should we have a healthy amount of F.O.M.O. when it comes to the God's ways? We continue our look to the life of Elisha and how his healthy F.O.M.O. allowed him to receive a double portion of Elijah's prophetic spirit.
Based on the book 'The Last Arrow' by Erwin McManus. Pastor Duncan brings us a word looking at the life of Elisha from 1 & 2 Kings. God leads Elisha to give something up in order to gain the life that God has planned for him. Is God asking us to do the same?
What is the most important question? Jesus asked his disciples about who people said he was. Tim explores with us why we believe that Jesus was the resurrected Son of God.
What did the disciples do after the resurrection? How do their failures and successes have an impact on us today and what can we learn from them?
As we celebrate Easter Sunday, Gordon Neale, Elim's Regional Leader for the Midlands and North East brings us our Easter message.
As we start 'Holy Week' we take a look at the story of Palm Sunday. Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and the crowds gathered to welcome him. Pastor Duncan looks at how the events of Palm Sunday should reflect on our Christian faith now.
Pastor Duncan takes a look at Ecclesiastes 10:10 and how Solomon's wise advice on keeping our axe's sharp and using skill over strength will lead us to a place of success.
This Mother's Day, Rev. Duncan Clark shares the word with one of our Elders, Shirene. They speak from the book of 1 Chronicles and they look at how we should pray similar bold prayers like the prayer of Jabez.
Our guest speaker this week is Stuart Blount, who is the Director of Ministry for the Elim Churches. Stuart speaks to us today on the parable of the sower.
As we finish our Kingdom Resources series, Pastor Duncan looks at what it means to have Kingdom Prosperity. We look at how outer prosperity may come from first having soul prosperity.
In our penultimate sermon of our Kingdom Resources series, Pastor Ryan speaks of how we should give with a kingdom heart. We look at how we can sometimes fall foul of giving with a poverty heart, a religious heart and a greed heart, yet God wants us to give from a kingdom heart.
One of our Elders, Bev Samways is our speaker this morning. She is continuing the series Kingdom Resources by encouraging us to return to the source of everything, focussing our eyes on God and not his resources and then we will see abundance in our lives.
Continuing with our current series looking at how we can have a more kingdom mindset towards the money God has given us, Pastor Duncan looks at the impact that being more generous has on us.
Kingdom resources looks at how we take the money and resources that God has given us and how we then steward that money for His glory.
Dave Campbell is the Regional Leader for the Metropolitan area. Dave overseas around 150 Elim churches and is today's guest speaker.
This week, Pastor Duncan explores a new concept for us as a church. What would it look like to have a church of partners, rather than members? We look at how Paul writes to the Collossian Church and shows how he partnered with people to build God's church.
As we start the new year, Pastor Duncan brings su to the famous scripture of dry bones, found in Ezekiel 37.
The Regional Superintendent for the Midland's Region, Rev. Gordon Neale joins us for our Christmas Day service.
Mark Greenwood is Elim's National Evangelist. Mark is speaking to us today about how we should be people who impact our worlds. Speaking from Matt 5:13-16, Mark draws out the importance of being salt and light in our communities.
Concluding our kingdom Culture series, Pastor Duncan takes us to Matt 7 and look at the wise and foolish builders. We look at how we all build things in our lives and we have to make a conscious choice to build in a wise way.
In our penultimate week of our series looking at the Sermon on the Mount. Pastor Duncan brings us to a passage from Matt 6 which speaks of how we should live in God's peace and not in a life of worry.
Last week we looked at how our life and good deeds should shine before all, this week in Matt 6:1-18 speaks of keeping our 'acts of righteousness' a secret. How do these two work together and how do we bring God's glory through them all.
We are currently working through the sermon on the mount. This week Pastor Ryan the Youth Pastor brings us a word on how we can be salt and light in the world around us.
Continuing the new Kingdom Culture message series, Pastor Duncan unpacks the Beatitudes from Matt 5.
As we start our new series, we are looking at how Jesus spoke out, often against the culture of the day, during the famous sermon on the mount between Matt 5-7. In the first of this series, Pastor Duncan talks to us today on the beatitudes.
This week we have James Aladrian joining us. James runs a ministry called Prayer Storm which seeks to ignites the body of Christ's passion for prayer and fasting. He speaks passionately in his talk about fighting the battle that e as Christians find ourselves in.
We all have a story to tell of what God has done in our lives. Our story stirs the faith of the non-believer whilst strengthening our on fight by looking at what He has done in the past. Pastor Duncan looks at the power in knowing the story of God moving in our lives.
As we conclude our 'Father's House" series, Pastor Duncan unpacks what Jesus wanted the Temple to be, not a place where just the Jews could visit, but a place for people from every nation, tribe and tongue. This is a picture of what Heaven will be like.
Continuing our series looking at the narrative of Jesus turning the tables in the temple. Pastor Duncan looks at how Jesus had passion, prayers and power in this story.
Pastor Duncan starts a new sermon series this week entitled 'The Father's House. We look at how Jesus developed a passion for the Temple from an early age. He had a 'holy discontent' for the practices of the temple and felt called to do something about it.
Tim Alford, our guest speaker brings us a word entitled 'In the suddenly and in the silence'. We see God move in miraculous way through sudden moments, but how is he working in our lives when he is silent?
In our final week of our Good and Beautiful God series, Pastor Ryan our Youth Pastor speaks for us on how God transforms us. We look at our identity as sinners and saints and how that impacts our Christian walk.
In our penultimate week of looking at James Bryan Smith's book 'The Good and Beautiful God.' This week Pastor Duncan, our Senior Minister, unpacks that God is Trustworthy.
Continuing with our series 'The Good & Beautiful God' This week one of Elders; Bev, talks about the holiness of God and how by the power of Jesus we to are invited into a life of Holiness.
Continuing our look to 'The Good and Beautiful God' book. We look at another of God's characteristics and nature, that He is generous. We look at some of the lenses we can look through that will distort our view that God is a generous God.
As we kick off a five part series, based on the book 'The Good And Beautiful God' by James Bryan Smith. Our creative director Gaz speaks to us this morning about the goodness of God and how through the story of Jesus healing the blind man in John 9, we see the good nature of God.
In our final week of our 'Heartsong' series, Pastor Duncan unpacks the 27th Psalm. We look at how David was seeking God, gazing upon Him and dwelling with Him.
In our series 'Heartsong', we're looking at some of the most famous Psalms and what they mean for our walk with God. Today we look at Psalm 91 and how the psalmist speaks of God's protection under his wings.
This week Pastor Duncan teaches on one of the most famous songs in the bible; Psalm 23. This passage has often been described as a 'Psalm to die by', Today Duncan teaches on how it is actually also an excellent Psalm to live by.
As we start a new series. Pastor Duncan will be unpacking a different psalm each week, looking at how we sing from our hearts in all circumstances.
This week Pastor Duncan talks about the spiritual warfare that's going on in our lives. The battle for our identity and destiny.
In our final sermon of our 'Planted' series, Pastor Duncan talks about a series that Jesus spoke a lot on...Money. Duncan unpacks what it meant for the Israelites in Deuteronomy to give their first fruits of their crops back to God.
In this, the last in the 'planted' series, Duncan teaches on how if we remain in God he will enable us to not only produce much fruit but also fruit that lasts.
As we continue our 'Planted' series. Pastor Duncan and one of our Elders, Bev talk to us about how each season in our lives has a purpose in helping us grow closer to God.
As we continue our 'Planted' series. Pastor Duncan unpacks the process of pruning and how God uses this to help us live out more fruitful lives.
As we continue our 'Planted' series. Pastor Duncan explores what it looks like to live a life with Jesus remaining close or 'dwelling' in him. We look at the keys to abiding in Jesus, having Jesus abide in us and also to have God's word abide in us.
As a church we parter with Compassion, we sponsor over 120 children in Ethiopia. Today we have the privilege of having Compassions Ethiopia Director Tsehaywota Taddesse be our guest speaker.
How do we cultivate spiritual fruit in our lives? Pastor Duncan unpacks what it means for the 'roots' in our lives must run deep before experience growth and fruit.
Pastor Duncan kicks off a new series this week looking at what needs to happen in our lived for us to bear spiritual fruit.
As a follow on to our 'Choose Life' Series. Pastor Duncan brings this mornings word. From 1 Thess 5 we learn the 3 ways to bring heaven on earth - 1) Rejoice always 2) Pray continually 3) Give thanks in all circumstances.
This week we are joined by our Regional Superintendent, Gordon Neale. Gordon brings for us the final message from our Choose Life series.
In our penultimate week of the Choose Life series, Pastor Duncan looks at Philippians 3. Paul used the image of running a race. Running a race requires us to focus, not on many things, but on one goal.
We often want to know a vision for our lives. Chris Cartwright, Elim's General Superintendent is speaking today, looking at the life of Paul from Acts 26.
On our 4th instalment of our Choose Life series, this week we look at the attitude of Paul when he was in prison. We would have understood if he was down and grumpy. But Paul shows us another way through the book of Phillipians.
Continuing with our Choose Life series. Pastor Duncan speak on how we react to circumstances in our lives. Often we can control what happens to us but we can control how we react to them. Choosing Godly thoughts and actions could be key to a better physical, emotional and spiritual life.
Last week we learnt that the key to entering God's presence was thanksgiving for the things that are unchanging. This week Pastor Duncan unwraps that when we enter God's presence, we gain supernatural peace.
As we start our new series during the time of Lent. We look at how we often need to make a choice to be joyful. We can take encouragement from Paul that when he was writing to the Philippian church he chose to remain joyful in his approach to life.
As Simon is moving on to become Senior Minister at the Elim church in Rugby, he speaks on his last Sunday with us about how we can expect Immeasurably more than what we can ask or imagine.
As our 2012-2017 vision has run its course. Pastor Duncan takes a moment, as we are half way through our contract at the Belgrade theatre to share the next season for the church.
Our guest speaker this week is Rev. Mark Ryan who is the lead pastor at Birmingham City Church, one of Elim's largest churches. Mark speaks to us about David's mighty men, and how each of them have something significant about their characters and personality that we can learn from.
We take a look at Acts 13. We take inspiration from the early disciples who went from a gathering of 200 to reaching a city of 50,000 in just one week. How can we live an invitational life like that?
Today we look at how the invitational life doesn't just stretch to the people that we know and like. It's much harder to love and live out the gospel to those who are vastly different to us or that we may not like as much. Pastor Duncan urges us to be a people who are building bridges to those people by the way we live. Not walls.
We look today at how at how we are all called to be ambassadors of Christ, in every part of our lives we are called to live in such a way that represents Christ in the best way.
In our first full Sunday back in the new year, Pastor Duncan unpacks to us, what is is like to live an Invitational Life. A life where how you life speaks volumes about God.
As we draw closer to Christmas, Duncan shares a word that has been laid on his heart. We look at Luke's Gospel and the 4 names that were given as a prophesy by the prophet Isaiah.
In our Christmas Family Service, Pastor Duncan shares a little bit of God's Character. We look at how God often operates. He could be doing 10,000 things in our lives and we may recognise 3 of them.
This weeks preach was split up into 3 mini-talks. We looked at the theme of Emmanuel, one of the names for Jesus - meaning God with us. Pastor Duncan unwraps what is means that God has been with us in our past. That God is with us in our present and that God will be with us in our future.
Tim was previously an elder here at Coventry Elim before being appointed as the National Director of Limitless, the national youth department of the Elim Churches.
As our church partners with the international charity Compassion. Tim Robinson comes to talk to about the work that is happening though our sponsorship of children and young people in Ethiopia.
Have we sacrificed an adventurous life in order to have a comfortable life? Pastor Duncan looks at the importance of taking some risks in our lives and the rewards of doing so.
In the book of Leviticus, God sets us some house rules and in keeping these commands, He promises to multiply his people, to be with us in his presence and to show us his favour.
As Christians we need to yearn for God's kingdom to come in our lives. What does that actually look like to us?
When you bake a loaf of bread, using yeast makes it spread throughout the dough. Should we as Christians, be like that in our society?
What does it look like to God's Kingdom to come in our lives and in our city? Pastor Simon talks about how we can see God's will be done in our lives.
In our final look at the prodigal son narrative. Pastor Duncan looks at the other son in the story, the one who stays obedient. Is this who we can sometimes relate more to as Christians?
Our penultimate week of the 'Home' series, Pastor Simon Whitley looks at how the father offers a forgiveness to the son that culturally wouldn't have happened in those times.
We look at how the father greets the Son in our sermon this week. Preached by Pastor Duncan.
As we continue our look at the narrative of the prodigal son. Pastor Duncan helps us to look at how the father in the story is compassionate his son, how he runs to him and throws his arm around him.
As a church we have moved our Sunday service to the Belgrade theatre. This is a big step for us to 'come home' to the place God is calling us. We, then, are looking at the narrative of the prodigal son and his journey home.
In the penultimate week of our Paradoxology series, Pastor Simon looks at the paradox of the cross.
God is both completely inclusive with his love and yet completely exclusive to the way he calls us to approach him. Is our God and our faith inclusive or exclusive?
This week we look at the paradox that Moses faced. He knew that God wants us in intimate relationship with Him, but he also reigns above us from on high. How do these two statements sit together?
As we start a new series, we are following the teaching from the book 'Paradoxology' by Krish Kandiah. This book looks at some of the tension we see in the bible and how we shouldn't just give simple answers to complex questions, but how we hold these questions in tension.
When Abraham heard the voice of God it was years until he saw it fulfilled. What he needed to do whilst he was in this liminal space was to keep believing.
As we continue our look at the story of Abraham, Pastor Simon helps us to look at how Abraham knew he could hold firm to the promises of God because he had made a covenant with Him.
As we continue our look to the story of Abraham, Pastor Duncan speaks on how Abraham and his father, when they set out to Canaan from Ur of the Chaldeans. They ended up settling in Haran and at the time, not seeing God's promises fulfilled. Are we a people who settle?
As we continue our series looking at the Story of Abraham, we see that in spite of overwhelming odds, Abraham had hope and faith for God to deliver His promises.
As we continue our look at the life of Abraham, this week Pastor Simon looks at how Abraham faced his own test as God called him to sacrifice his only son Isaac on the mountain of Moriah.
The Liminal Space is the ‘hallway between your past and your future’, it is the time between ‘obeying the vision’ and seeing the ‘fulfilment of the vision’. In this series we study the life of Abraham and how he not only survives, but also thrives in the Liminal Space.
As we grow closer to the Belgrade move, Pastor Duncan shares with us about the parable of the wine and the wineskins and how it relates to our current situation.
Pastor Simon looks at the story of Nehemiah and relates it to the brokenness of our city. How can prayer and fasting change Coventry?
Pastor Duncan kicks us off with a new 3 part series on prayer & fasting. As we look to things our move to the Belgrade Theatre we want to set aside time to seek after God regarding the future of our church.
National Director for Serious4God Tim Alford speaks about how pain and suffering can be turned around for our good.
In our final week our multiplication series, Pastor Duncan talks about how we can generous and wise with our money and tithes.
As we start our new series 'Multiply' we look at how, through faith, God can multiply various aspects of our lives.
After Jesus' death came life. He was not resurrected though, to give us a life to be lived in black and white, but he gave us life to be lived in full colour!
As the easter weekend has arrived, Pastor Simon looks at the significance of the death of Jesus.
As we start the easter season. We look at the narrative of Jesus entering Jerusalem. What were the crowds expectation of him? What are our expectations of Jesus?
Pastor Leon Evans from Zion Christian Centre (Elim) in Halesowen joins us, speaking on courage.
We are continuing with our look a the book of Joshua and Pastor Simon brings us the 7th instalment in the series 'Crossing Over'.
Pastor Duncan explores what it looks like to find victory even when it can seem like you've been defeated.
If God has a battle lined up for us, how will he prepare us and how do we respond. Pastor Simon takes a look at Joshua chapter 5 will the story of the Israelites and the walls of Jericho.
Elim's Regional Leader for Wales and the South West, Simon Foster is our guest speaker for our first 'Encounter Weekend' of 2016.
We we are often told to forgot what is behind us, but God told the Israelites that building a memorial is a great way to remember what God has brought them through. He encourages us to do the same.
As the Israelites cross the Jordan river, we see how the significance of this narrative is pivotal to where our church is heading and the importance of our new vision.
As we start our new series called 'Crossing Over' we look at how the people of Israel crossed over to the promise land from Egypt and the wilderness.
As we conclude our Tribe 2 series, Pastor Simon unpacks what it means to be a tribe who encounters Jesus.
The church was never meant to stand still. This week we learn how God used the persecution faced by the early church to spread the message of the gospel and that the church was not meant to be an institution, but a movement.
The community of believers in the early church were intent on serving each other. As a tribe at Coventry Elim how does this affect us today?
As we reach our third week in our Tribe 2 Series, Pastor Simon brings us a word on how we, as the tribe of Coventry Elim, can be a generous people.
As we continue our Tribe 2 series, this week Pastor Duncan unpacks on what it is for our tribe to have courage.
Pastor Duncan starts of our sequel series 'Tribe 2' by looking at the early church and how they were devoted to God's mission and ministry in Acts 2:42-47
We welcomed John Glass, the General Superintendent of the Elim Movement with us this week.
This week we have a guest speaker coming to bring God's word. Rev. Lionel Currie is the retired senior minister of Leeds Elim and is speaking to us today about the power of hope.