All Nations Church's Podcast

Pastor Ian shares some key thoughts about God being our Father and what that means for us as individuals and as parents. Be blessed and inspired.

Pastor Ian shares some key thoughts about God being our Father and what that means for us as individuals and as parents. Be blessed and inspired.

How can we keep going when everything seems to be shaking? By understanding and living in the turth that in every problem there is a promise. Pastor Ian shares and illustrates this powerful principle from scripture encouraging us to get hold of a promise from God in the middle of our problems and then to hold on to him, the unshakeable, unchangeable and unstoppable saviour. Be blessed and encouraged.

Too often we walk around with our heads down, sunk in the midst of our problems and our difficulties, but God wants to lift our heads so we can lift our eyes and voice. Today, what do you need to lift so that you are able to receive his call and purpose in your life? Be blessed and inspired.

Why is it that somethings don't work out like we believe and others do? What do we do when we've done everything that is expected of us and things are still not in our favour? Joseph shares how in everything, the call from God on us is to trust him. We do what he commands, we live as he desires and in it all we trust him.

As Christians we don't always feel or see the victory that the New Testament talks about in our lives. Often we feel battered and bruised, broken and defeated. In those times what do we do and what are we going to believe? Pastor Ian shares some inspirational thoughts from scripture encouraging us that our defeat isn't our identity or our destination, but it is just an episode. The final chapter is still to come and out of the ashes of defeat will arise the hope and breakthrough into a better day. Be blessed and inspired

As one famous commentator said "this is the greatest comeback since Lazarus." Well maybe today is your come back day, the day when what is dead is brought back to life and begins to thrive and flourish. What if today can be the start of the greatest comeback in your life since Lazarus was raised from the dead? Every blessing and be blessed

Pastor Ian shares from John 21 and Peter's response to seeing Jesus and challenges us to see if we would be the same. Would we surround ourselves with good friends, will we accept their advice, will we run and show urgency and would we make spending time with Jesus our driver? Be blessed

So what if the resurrection is true? Can it be proved? How can we believer it? What difference does it make to us? This Easter Sunday why not listen as Pastor Ian shares about the resurrection and helps us to see that it is real but also that it can make everything different.

Every time Jesus appeared to someone after the resurrection, their lives were changed. What if that is still true today? What are some of the areas in our lives that need resurrection power, that need to be revived? Pastor Ian shares four areas that the resurrection power of Jesus can touch in our lives and encourages to believe that hope isn't dead but is alive in Him. Be blessed and encouraged.

We all get tired, even exhausted. In fact the Bible is full of great men and women of God who were exhausted by life. What do you do when you are? What has caused it in your life? In this timely and encouraging sermon, Joseph shares some of the common causes of exhaustion and how we can rise up from it as we pursue Jesus. We pray that this will bless and encourage you.

People have been doing communion for 2000 years, but what if it is more than a tradition? What if Jesus is present in communion? What if we can feed on him by faith? What if communion is a participation in Him and an impartation from Him? What does that make communion? Pastor Ian seeks to share the answers to these questions and shows us why communion is so important to our daily lives as Christians. Be blessed and encouraged.

If God delights in things, is it possible for our worship to delight him? What if it can and does? What should our worship be like to cause that? What should our lives be like to cause God such delight? Pastor Ian seeks to explore these questions with the life changing thought that we have the capacity in us to delight God. We pray that as you listen to this you will have a desire and a will to praise God in such a way that he takes delight in what he sees and hears.

God is a seeker. He seeks those who are lost, those who are hiding, those who are in need of strengthening, those who need to be place and those who need to fill a gap. But God is also seeking worshipers. What if this is true. What does it mean for us? When God is seeking is he finding us or does his gaze move over us to another. In this Sunday's sermon, Pastor Ian encourages us to be the kind of worshipers that God the father is actively seeking for and to not worship him from the core of our being. Be blessed, encouraged, inspired and challenged.

It is so tempting to compare ourselves to others and to make a decision about our lives based on what we see in theirs. We can think more highly of ourselves then we should or we can think more negatively of ourselves than we should. These are dangers of comparing and measuring ourselves against other people. The key is to not do this but to measure ourselves against God's standard for our lives. Joseph shares how to do this and why it is so important. We pray that as you do this you will find the grace and courage you need to move forward in Jesus

We can be confident because God is for us. We can attempt things because God is for us. We can dream and ask 'what if' because God is for us. Today if you are unsure and uncertain about the depths of Jesus's commitment to you and the security you have in him then we pray that this sermon will build your confidence and cause you to believe that all things are truly possible.

What if we really believed what God said about himself and really believed his word? What if we believed that God had dreams for our lives? What if we took decisions that moved us into our 'what ifs'? What would our lives look like? What would the church look like? What would our communities look like? It is time to take up the What If challenge and begin to believe and live in his potential for our lives and not in our regrets and fears of our lives. Be blessed and encouraged.

If God is for us then who can be against us? It is a powerful statement from Romans 8 and Pastor Ian spends time asking the guestion, if God is, then what does that mean for us? Our negative ifs of regrets and wishful thinking can be transformed into the positive life changing ifs of faith only as we are in Christ. But when we are in him then we can experience true, lasting and powerful change, even of our regrets and hopes. Be blessed and inspired

The word "if" is tiny word but it carries a huge weight. Hopes, dreams, consequences and regrets are all tied up with it. Pastor Ian shares how God wants to release us from our regrets by removing our condemnation, so our regrets actually become steps into hopes. We pray today that as you listen you will be blessed, strengthened and inspired to move into the freedom that Jesus offers.

Looking at Caleb and his request to Joshua in Joshua 14, Joseph shares some powerful and encouraging thoughts on what it means to keep going and to overcome. This encouraging word is for all those who need God to pick them up and remind them that battles lead to victories. We pray that you will be blessed, inspired and encouraged.

God has more for us than we can ask or imagine! He wants us to trust him enought to move out of our traditions, our culture, our preconceived notions of what and how God moves and believe that he wants to give us more than we can ask or imagine. It is time to believe that in His hand is an and. The answer to our prayers and a further out pouring of grace. Be blessed and encouraged.

What does it mean to pursue God's blessing and best for our lives? Pastor Ian continues to answer this question and looking at the changes we need to make for it to happen. Looking at the story of Elisha in 2Kings 2 he encourages us to know who owns our lives and to pursue selfless ambitions. We pray you will be blessed and inspired as you listen to this

It isn't enough to be in the right place we also need to be in the right position. A position of readiness to move forward, of having learnt what is necessary to take the next steps, the position of anticipation and excitement. Pastor Ian shares from the life of Elisha about some of the lessons we need to learn and begin practicing if we are going to be a position to move forward and not just be in a place to move forward. Be blessed and encouraged.

Pastor Ian continues to share principles for lasting change. Looking at Mark 4 he shares that if we are to move forward we must know where we are starting from first. Do you know where you are? We pray that you will be blessed and inspired as you listen to Sunday's sermon.

Crossing over from 2018 to 2019 must be more than just a date and a time on our calendar. It needs to be time when we determine to leave where we are to head to somewhere better. Pastor Ian shares from Mark 4 some thoughts on what it means to crossover and what it means for us. Be blessed.

Change is here to stay and if we don't change then we stagnate and loss our effectiveness and fruitfulness. Real change is essential, change that will last and change that will bring God glory. Pastor Ian shares some key thoughts about change and how to change. We pray you will be blessed as you listen.

God is constantly preparing things for his people. In the nativity story God is involved in history, preparing things for the birth of Jesus, his son and our king. But what about now? What is God preparing for us today and this season? All those in the nativity had a choice about whether to respond to the opportunity that God had prepared for them or not. What will we do? We pray that as you listen to this you will be blessed and encouraged to believe that God is preparing things for you to meet with his son this season. Every blessing.

The Christmas stories have a consistent theme of hope running through them, but what is this hope and why should Jesus be the one who brings and sustains hope in people. Pastor Ian shares how the uniqueness of Jesus is the answer to not only why he is so important but how he can create hope in us for every situation and in every moment of every day. Be blessed.

Pastor Paul encourages us to know that when all hope has seemingly failed, that there is still hope for us. Today we pray that you will find hope in Jesus and be strengthened to believe for better times and better things.

What is the fear of the Lord? Is it still something for a modern believer to believe in? What benefit does it have for us? These questions and many more are answered by this straightforward and challenging message about what it means to fear God. We pray that you will be blessed as you listen to this

God is constantly calling His people to be with him, to return to him if we've fallen and stumbled in our walk. Yet the call to return is a call to come isn't the call to come empty handed but to bring something as we return. What are called to bring: our words, our confession, our commitment, our renunciation, our faith. And in returning there is blessing, hope and a future. We pray today as you listen that you will be inspired, challenged and hear the call of God to be with him.

Pastor Ian shares from Hosea 12 the need to learn from God's dealings in history and to entwine our lives with him. We are called to wait for him, to have our lives braided into and with the Lord. We pray that as you listen today you will be blessed, inspired and challenged to walk and wait for Him

God is always calling out to his creation. Jesus is constantly calling out to his sheep, his people. Calling to bring us back, calling to bring us home. Here in Hosea 11, Pastor Ian shows how God isn't just calling, but like a lion he is roaring at us, to grab our attention and to save us from utter ruin. Today we pray that as you listen to this you will be challenged and inspired to respond to Jesus and find a home, a place of belonging in Him.

God is lining up blessing in the person of Jesus Christ for his people. An outpouring of grace that will transform our lives and situations. The question is, how do we make sure we are in the bullseye for what he has lined up? Sharing from Hosea 10 Pastor Ian shares thoughts on what we need to do to align our lives with the purpose of God in Jesus. We pray that you'll be blessed and encouraged as you listen to the word.

Pastor Ian re-shares the message from the Life Group refresh night for all the church to hear. Hear the church's vision, it's purposes and why Life Groups are an essential part of that. Every blessing

Ever wondered why we do Life Groups and why they are important? Pastor Ian shares the churches vision and purposes showing how Life Groups are an essential part of what we do and how they flow out of our why. Be blessed and encouraged.

Ever found yourself in a place of pain, hurt, dryness, isolation, separation from God? Pastor Ian shares from Hosea 6 how to get out of that situation and how God can reverse the position you are in. Be blessed, inspired and challenged.

Hosea challenges us to be a people of knowledge and understanding. It isn't a general challenge to know more but a specific challenge to know God and his word. Pastor Ian shares this challenge with us, asking the question, 'do you know him?' Today we pray that you will be challenged and inspired to know him and deepen your understanding of Jesus and his word.

God's promise and intention is to completely reverse the negative situations in our lives brought caused by sin and disobedience. He wants to transform us, our experience and our lives by completely reversing the previous negatives affects. How and when? We pray that as you listen to this message from the Hosea 2 you will discover the place and timing of your changing situation and that you will see the complete transformation you long for.

We are all examples, good or bad, the question is, what are we going to be examples of? In this introduction to the book of Hosea, Pastor Ian encourages to know the amazing 'loving kindness' of God and to be examples of it. Be blessed, encouraged and inspired.

Often in our lives we find that something from the past, something we have done or has been done to us, has stayed with us and defined us. Defined us in negative and restrictive ways. Historic weaknesses, sins, failures, hurts, sicknesses and many other things have stayed with us and we've never found true freedom from them. Pastor Ian shares how today can be your day of freedom, healing and deliverance. Today can be your day to move away from what has bound you and step in to a new life, new identity and new joy. Be blessed, inspired and encouraged

Have you ever wondered about the parts of the Bible that talk of angels? What are they, what do they do, what is there relationship to us? Joseph gives an introduction this huge subject, looking at how angels are sent from God to minister on our behalf. Be blessed, assured and strengthened.

There are many places and circumstances that we need to arise from and leave behind, but maybe the most dangerous is a place called 'second best.' Pastor Ian reveals truths from the life of Terah and Abram about the seduction of second best but also how to move on from it into God's best for your life. Be blessed, inspired and we pray this will help you arise.

Often we live our lives based on where we are, spiritually, mentally, physically, even experientially. Yet God calls us to leave where we are and to arise! The question we have to ask ourselves is 'are we sat in a place called arise?' If we are, then it is time to be honest, stand up, step forward and step away from way we are. It is time to arise into what God has in store for us. Be blessed, inspired and encouraged