Riverside Church Hoddesdon

Jesus was asked by the Pharisee's what the greatest commandment was. His response was to love God with all your heart, soul and mind and the second was to love our neighbour as ourselves. In the second part of his Worship Is message Jamie explores who our neighbour is and how we can learn to love them and introduce them to Jesus.

Jesus was asked by the Pharisee's what the greatest commandment was. His response was to love God with all your heart, soul and mind. The greatest act of our worship, the greatest decision we make, the greatest thought we can conceive is loving God. In this message Pastor Jamie explores what it means to love God with all your heart, soul and mind.

Psalm 84 is a Psalm about living with the presence of God. Pastor Jamie shared about how worship is at the heart of us dwelling, seeking and trusting the presence of God.

Leigh Culf delivered a very powerful and significant word about relationships and how to keep them healthy. In this message Leigh gives very practical insights based on biblical principles that will help every person grow in the relationship they have in life.

Leigh Culf delivered a very powerful and significant word about relationships and how to keep them healthy. In this message Leigh gives very practical insights based on biblical principles that will help every person grow in the relationship they have in life.

During our family service Pastor Jamie built upon the kids talk with this adult talk looking at the faith of Abraham.

We are all wired to worship. But the question is what are we worshipping? In a tropical jungle a man bows before a crude stick figure; in a fantastic Asian temple another burns incense before a richly decorated Buddha. A small group of people meets in an unobtrusive house in a small town to sing and pray together. A man in an affluent suburb spends the entire morning meticulously washing and waxing his foreign-made sports car. A teenage girl listens adoringly to her favorite rock star in her poster-plastered bedroom. All of these people are worshiping. In some cases, the worship is formal and easy to recognize. In others, most people would hesitate to call it worship at all. But everyone worships something or someone, and what you worship has a great influence on what you are. In this message Pastor Jamie begins a season reflecting on worship.

Pastor Dominique John joined with us to bringing an inspiring message and talk to us about going to plant a new Elim church in Koln, Germany. In this message he explores what it takes to bring people to Jesus.

After Jesus is raised from the dead He meets His disciples in an upper room. Showing them His scars and then commissioning them to go He breathes upon them saying 'receive the Holy Spirit.' This was the beginning of new creation, of God breathed living. In this message Pastor Jamie reminds us of the life we have in Christ and how it is easy to lose the vibrancy of it but we can get it back.

Bitesize 15th March - Invest, Sacrifice & Trust. Last Sunday was mothers day and as part of that service we looked at three mothers in the Bible explored how they as mothers invest, sacrifice and trust God. Whether we are parents or not we all can take these three steps with others around us but in particular we can take these steps by helping a mother through Compassion's child sponsorship program.

When we feel ground down and exhausted, Jesus makes us an astonishing offer: a light yoke and an easy burden. And He really means it! It seems a paradox, but genuinely fruitful ministry that will have value for eternity comes only when we enter into that rest through the gateway of brokenness and learn to depend completely on Him.

In the Old Testament, God gave His people the Law. When Jesus came, He stated plainly that He had not come to do away with the Law but to fulfil it. If we understand how this works, we will resist the temptation to set ourselves up as nit-picking “guardians of the truth” but will be guided by the Law that is now written on our hearts. We will humble ourselves before God and before each other.

Our God is an awesome God. But His children can come boldly into His presence without being afraid — we are absolutely secure and safe. And if this God is for us, who can be against us? We need fear no one and nothing except God Himself, and the fear of God is not a cringing mistrust but a deep awe of His great majesty and holiness.

Past experiences, what others say and our struggles to break free of sin can leave us feeling that there is something fundamentally wrong with us. The truth is that we have become completely new people who can break the cycle of returning time and again to the same old sin issue. In Christ we have become completely new creations at the core of our being!

Many of God’s people struggle with a low-grade fever of guilt which makes us “act like we think a Christian should act”. Understanding that we have been declared not guilty once and for all brings us back to a real relationship with God where we can be ourselves and do what we do purely out of love. In Christ we measure up in full to God’s righteous demands!

We all know that we are saved by grace through faith alone. Yet when it comes to living out our Christian lives, it’s easy to slip into thinking that it comes down to obeying a set of rules or living up to certain standards. But God is not looking for slaves who obey because they have to — instead, He wants to free us to rest in His grace so that we serve Him because we really want to.

As we begin a centenary year as a movement Pastor Jamie reflects on Elim's history and then Moses encounter with God. During this encounter God reveals Himself as God of the past (Abraham, Issac, Jacob) and God of the future (I will rescue you and bring you to the promised land). But even more important He is God of the moment, the present. I Am who I Am. It is the present moments, and having the courage to move forward, that determine our future.

Jesus gave many people invitations. Invites to dinner, to follow Him, to trust Him but all of these to invite people to Himself in salvation. Jesus' invitations had power and they changed people. Why do we find it so difficult. In this message Pastor Jamie explores how we can give powerful invitations to people.

Sowing and reaping is a principle throughout scripture and especially in regard to finance. Both Jesus and Paul use grain, seed or marketplace metaphors to describe this principle. When we give we worship and we sow into the kingdom for which God will bless us. Pastor Jamie explore this further in this message.

Discipling children is solely the role of the church or children ministry but primarily it is about us as parents. We are the people who teach and model a Christ centred life and what salvation is and so we need to do it well. In this message Pastor Jamie explores how we can raise kingdom kids.

Godly leadership is key to a healthy, spiritual and strong church. Jesus picked good apostles, when churches where planted Paul sought leaders as quickly as possible. One such church is Ephesus. In his final meeting with the Ephesian elders we find some valuable insights into features of church leadership. Later when Paul sends Timothy to Ephesus he send him a letter and from this we find more insights into character of leaders and a little of the dynamic of team leadership. Jamie explores all these themes in this message.

If my people is a unity meeting for worship, prayer and renewal between Riverside, Baptist, St Catherine + Paul's and St Cuthberts as we seek God together. This message is taken from that meeting and Jamie explores the theme of friendship with God and how we develop that friendship through practising His presence.

Jesus returns home from His first ministry trip and suddenly His home is surrounded by a large crowd. As He speaks to them someone digs through the roof and lowers a paralysed man. In this message Pastor Jamie picks up the story and talks about how healing authenticates Jesus claims to forgive and how healing is apart of His kingdom.

Pastor Jamie returned to our Origins series on Mothers day to speak about the origin of family. Family has been designed by God for our benefit. However, we live in an age where the concept of family is shifting rapidly but the structures of family are also changing rapidly. Which leaves the question for many people when/if they get marriage, what do I do? what is family? how do I created a God centred home? because they haven’t seen it modelled. The Bible gives us an intended design for family as God created it and in this message will explore those questions.

Jesus said that He came to give us life but not just life abundant life. There is both a quantity and a quality in the life that Jesus gives. In this message Pastor Jamie explore what this life looks like for us as believers and also makes us aware that there is a thief who seeks to steal that life.

This is part 3 of our origins series. In this message Pastor Jamie tackles the origins of Humanity, that we have been created in the image of God. In this message we explore the fact that because all human life is made in His image we all have value, we have some likeness of our creator and God given us a purpose.

Pastor Jamie shares about the different world views that evolution and creation have in our family service. We have already covered what the 7 days are in some interactive games and in this audio Jamie takes statements from each belief and discusses what the Bible says.

Pastor Jamie started this new series in Genesis by look at the first verse. In the beginning God... God was in the beginning, before creation, He is eternal and this aspect of His nature is something we cannot comprehend. In this message Jamie explores some of the aspects that we cannot understand which should lead us to greater trust and awe.

This week Paul Hudson was our guest speaker. Paul is the International missions director for the Elim movement and He joined with us to share some of the vision of our missions department and to encourage us that we have hope to hold out to the world because of who Jesus is and what He has created the church to be.

Esther Schmid is our all nations placement student who is training for missions in the years ahead. This week she brought a message from Psalm 16 about David keeping God as His portion during difficult times and how we can keep God as our portion.

Pastor Jamie continues our habits of happiness series by teaching on the soul habits that keep us close to God. The habits of worship, bible reading and prayer. In this message Jamie explains why we need to have these habits in our lives.

As we head towards an other new year Pastor Jamie starts a new series habits if happiness in which we will look at habits of the soul, relationships, character and ministry. In this first message Jamie urges us to start good habits, to start training and working up a spiritual sweat which leads us close to God wanting to please Him and as a result we will have deeper satisfaction and joy and will experience a deeper working of grace.

This Sunday Kieron Cooper brought a message from 1 Peter on who God restores our lives through the work of sanctification of the Holy Spirit.

This weekend we had guest speaker Pastor Nigel Tween. Nigel is a member of Elim's national leadership team as director of training and is Principle at Regents theological college. Nigel has served in ministry for 35 years and has a great passion for the local church. In this message Nigel talks to us about 4 types of church member that we can be.

The church is a people in which every person has a Spirit given present and God defined part which they should play to help fulfil our God given purpose. In this message Pastor Jamie explains how we all need to belong, discover our gifts and use them for Gods given purpose.

In this message Pastor Jamie concludes His study in Haggai. In this message Jamie urges us to keep strong and work at our faith, to consider the cost of His glory, to consider the cost of holiness and to realise that God calls us to consider our ways because we are missing the blessing He desires to pour out on us.

In this first message Pastor Jamie calls us to consider our ways. The people of Israel had returned from exile and started to build the temple but soon stopped to focus on their own homes and lives. Due to this God withheld His blessing from them and calls them back to Himself. In this message Jamie calls us to keep Jesus as the centre of all we are and do.

In this weeks message Pastor Jamie talks about "praying the change." God has written His will and purposes over our lives as believers and as a church. But for us to move into those and to see changes we need to pray the change. Prayer invites God into our lives to do His will and bring His change. Jamie explores principles that enable us to successfully pray the change.

Pastor Jamie returned to our series in Matthew. In Matthew 16 Jesus made a promise to build His church and in this message Jamie show us that the church is for Jesus and He is committed to His church. Jamie also explores what it means to be church as he looks at the word Ekklesia.

Last week we received the news that Pete Manning a long standing member at Riverside received his home call. This Sunday pastor Jamie preached on how we can mourn with hope. Paul tells us we dont mourn as those without hope and in this message Jamie explains we mourn with Hope because Pete believed Jesus for salvation and eternal life, we are absent from the body and present with the Lord and we await a resurrection in which we will be like Jesus. So though death is painful we mourn with hope because of this.

We have a powerful prophetic move of the Holy Spirit during our worship and because of this Pastor Jamie changed the message and followed the leading of the Holy Spirit building on the words of prophesy. In this message Pastor Jamie deal with discouragement and how like David we need to hold onto God's promises, lift our eyes to heaven, face the desert and allow God to open the door.

In this message our national evangelism director Gary Gibbs begins our 18 month journey of turning inside out by talking about the foundation of evangelism the unity of the church.

Jesus has a confrontation with the Pharisee's over a tradition of hand washing. Jesus makes clear it isn't what goes into the mouth that defiles but what comes out because what comes out is from the heart. In this message Pastor Jamie explores the issue of the heart and that we dont need a reformation of behaviour but a transformation of heart.

Jesus did two miracles in Matthew 14 in feeding the 5000 and then walking on water and calming the storm. In this message Pastor Jamie emphasise the point of the accounts is the Deity and greatness of Jesus. From this then we grow to deeper faith and the disciples lack of faith makes sense because we see Jesus greatness which leads us to worship.

Jesus talked to his disciples a lot in parables. These are stories that bring everyday understanding and meaning to many concepts Jesus taught. In this message Pastor Jamie explores the parables of Matthew 13 and what Jesus intended to teach us through them.

In this message Pastor Jamie tackles the area of demons. We find Jesus in confrontation with the Pharisee's when they accuse Him of casting out demons by the power of satan. Jesus responds to them and within that response we see Jesus teaching on demons.

Pastor Jamie continues to preach from Matthew. In this message He looks Jesus call to the weary and burdened to come and rest. As Christians we dont have diplomatic immunity from the trials and problems of this world but we do have a God who gives rest in the midst of them.

In this message Pastor Jamie explores Jesus teaching about 2 paths. There are only 2 paths available to mankind and Jesus challenges us to go through the narrow gate and follow the narrow path. The rest of this chapter follow the difference of the two paths. If you follow the narrow path your house is built on the rock and you can be sure that house will stand.

This week Pastor Jamie returned to our series in Matthew: the King and the kingdom. In this message Pastor explores Jesus higher call. Your ultimate calling is not your ministry, it is you becoming more like Jesus. In this passages of scripture Jesus challenges the way we live and takes us further than the 10 commandments by dealing with our heart.

Pastor Jamie explores the life of David in this Father's day message exploring how we become men after God's heart.

The General Superintendent of Elim Pentecostal church joined us on 9th June and share with us a message about being a more than church. God is a generous more than God and has call us to be a more than people. John challenges us as believers to step up and give first place to Jesus in order to walk as a more than people.