First Church Charlotte

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  • Freedom Series "Refuge"

    16/09/2019 Duration: 59min

    Sept 15, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms https://firstchurchclt.com/notes

  • The Power Of A Story

    12/09/2019 Duration: 52min

    September 11, 2019, | Pastor Jonathan Strickland There is power in your story and no one can tell your story quite as well as you can.

  • Freedom

    09/09/2019 Duration: 47min

    September 8, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms One of the great ideas of the bible is Deliverance. In fact, Deliverance in many ways defines what it means to be a child of God. Deliverance is a necessary first step. We cannot understand God's doctrine, a theology of grace, or hope to come, without understanding divine deliverance. Jesus introduced his ministry by reading a particular passage from the book of Isaiah—a passage his listeners knew was referring to the Messiah, or the Savior of the world. The words had been written hundreds of years earlier and spoke of the new freedom that was coming in the future. When Jesus stood up to read, He was saying the future had arrived. Liberty would come through Him. Luke 4:17-21 New King James Version (NKJV) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+4%3A17-21&version=NKJV Notice this: 1. Preach (good news to the poor) 2. Healing (of the brokenhearted) 3. Deliverance ( to the captives) 4. Healing (recovery of sight to the blind) 5. Deliverance (liberty to the oppress

  • I Can

    06/09/2019 Duration: 46min

    September 4, 2019, | Pastor Brent Keating

  • From Call To Action

    02/09/2019 Duration: 50min

    Sept. 1, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms 1st Church CLT Theodore Levitt is an economist and a professor at Harvard Business School. He did a research project called “Market Myopia.” His discovery: Business leaders often do not understand what business they were in. For example, the railroad people didn’t understand that they were in the transportation business. Had they realized it, they would have invested in the airplane. The telegraph people thought that they were in the telegraph business. They failed to realize that they were in the communications business. In 1886 or so, they could have bought all of the telephone patents for about $40,000. But they didn’t know what business they were in. I. What is the main business of the church? • Care for its members? Counsel for the confused? Prayer for the sick? Marrying and burying? Fellowship for the lonely? Teaching paths of righteousness? Without a doubt, these are functions of the church – but not the main business of the church; and if we start acting as if

  • Answering The Call

    26/08/2019 Duration: 48min

    August 25, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms https://firstchurchclt.com/notes Ezekiel's call (1:28-2:8) -This is an image of surrender. "When I saw [it], I fell facedown and heard a voice speaking" (Ezek. 1:28). Here's what he heard: • Stand up on your feet "He said to me, 'Son of man, stand up on your feet . . .'" (Ezek. 2:1). God wanted Ezekiel to be fully alert. He was about to receive direction. • Listen to the One "'. . . and I will speak with you.' As He spoke to me, the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and I listened to the One who was speaking to me" (Ezek. 2:2). • The Mission of God There is an action component to the call of God. We cannot be where God wants us without going to where God sends us. • Remember Who You Are Serving. Ezekiel, you must decide who you are serving. • Receive what I am giving you. Ezekiel means "God is strong" or "God makes strong." This was Ezekiel's call to be a prophet. What is God calling you to do? What is God calling you to support? Paralysis is your enemy. What c

  • Ask Me Anything

    22/08/2019 Duration: 48min

    August 21, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms Foundations: Fear is a part of life. Fear, in context, can be the right emotion. Yet fear can also be our enemy. Indeed, fear is the currency of the devil. Fear is the common battle of all believers. There are 365 times in the scripture where we are commanded to overcome our fear. The opposite of faith isn't doubt – it is fear. There are three great enemies of the church 1. A wounded spirit. 2.) A railing spirit. 3.) A fearful spirit Question: How can I tell the difference between normal fear and spiritual oppression? Importantly, the correct initial response is always practical. Prayer. Fasting. Faith. Confession. Our lives are lived forward but understood looking backwards. Whether or not we understand, we are still called to be faithful. "Faith-full" Don’t fall for the wrong assumption that “understanding” something will make it easier to do the right thing. It may have the opposite effect. However, there are some questions we can ask to help contextualize o

  • The Do Something Church

    18/08/2019 Duration: 46min

    August 18, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms https://firstchurchclt.com/notes/ 1. God Is Spirit God is a spirit being. Jesus described God in this manner. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth (John 4:24). 2. God Is Light The Bible also says that God is light. This is the message we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in him, there is no darkness at all (1 John 1:5). 3. God Is Love The Bible says that God is love. We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him (1 John 4:16). 4. God Is A Consuming Fire The Bible also describes God as a consuming fire. For our God is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29). Of these images of God we can only know God through Love. This is the necessity of love. This is the point of 1 John 4: 7-8 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love

  • A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Cross

    12/08/2019 Duration: 43min

    August 11, 2019, | Rev Glenn Eliseo Ps 2:1-4 Luke 6-21 • It's not the who laughs first, it is the one who laughs last is Victor. • Our freedom in the Lord Jesus is Hell's chains. • The laughter of unbelief is, unfortunately, is common today. It's not who laughs first, but those who laugh last are the ones who won. • Look past the problem, and instead, look at the Truth. • The laughter of the fool is temporary, but the laughter of the delivered is eternal. There is no fun outside of Jesus. • Hell thought that they had won at the Cross but instead lost everything according to God's plan. If they would have known that they were being led into a checkmate by God with the crucifixion, they never would have been eager to make it happen. • Sometimes when there is nothing else that we can do in a situation, we simply need to stand as a warrior in God. • We can't have a testimony without a test. • There's a warrior's laugh. It's done when the victor is in total dominance, just as when we remember that God is so muc

  • Serving With Joy

    09/08/2019 Duration: 36min

    August 7, 2019, | Pastor Ed Hodge

  • Facing Giants

    06/08/2019 Duration: 42min

    August 4, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms • Ministry is not from the platform of a church, but instead the church is the ministers for their communities. • Part of our job is to see God's people as God sees them and not only as we see ourselves. • When God sees us, He sees His blood covering us. The moment that we see our church brothers and sisters as God sees us, that is the time that we can encourage and help each other. • There is a victory for you that the enemy, (devil) doesn't want you to have and there are times that the enemy wants to take what you have already accomplished. • Goliath is an example of how we are intimidated by fear and illusion and sometimes defeated by our own expectations of what we can or can't do. Giants will always poster for you. • If you want to know what God can do, get your eyes off of what you can do and get your eyes on what God has already done. Don't worry about the giants in your life; which is done by keeping your focus on how much bigger God is. • The problem of giants is

  • Seeking A Deeper Hope

    29/07/2019 Duration: 40min

    July 28, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms

  • Purpose2 First Things First

    27/07/2019 Duration: 48min

    July 24, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms

  • 3 Anointings

    23/07/2019 Duration: 38min

    July 21, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms Luke 4:17-19 • The Holy Spirit is referred to as rain, as wind, as fire, & as wine. • One anointing is for our atonement for entering the family of God. • The second anointing is our worship to & for the Lord. We are all worshippers because we, as humans are organized emptiness & are only made whole by worshipping the Lord. Many see the wrong things to worship such as sports, celebrities, fame, money, etc., but all of these lead to the emptiness in our souls. • The third anointing is ministering to and helping other people. • We are God's plan for our world. • To find out where God is moving, look for where someone is hurting. God came to fix broken people. The Lord has placed us in our world to continue the work of changing the atmosphere around us. • The average cloud contains about a million pounds of water in it. • Although there can be many clouds present, it takes a change in the atmosphere before the cloud can release its water as rain for parched earth. • We as an

  • Purpose

    19/07/2019 Duration: 45min

    July 17, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms • If we are going to understand our role in the Kingdom of God, we also have to discuss our purpose. • With no purpose, we will serve ourselves. • The two pillars of direction given by God, Love God with all of yourself and love your neighbor as you love yourself. The second is to go and make disciples of all nations and baptize them in Jesus name and disciple them to follow the teachings of the Lord. • There are five purposes or activities that the church has to do to be the church. • Worship, Ministry, Evangelism, Fellowship, and Discipleship. This is the coupling of the great commandment and the great commission. • Five in many ways shows God's favor and generosity to us. • The church has become God's gift to the world even though the church may not look attractive to our world. • Although we in this modern time are tremendously blessed, many today are struggling with finding meaning. • Without meaning, nothing matters. • People need a purpose to live for, hope to live

  • Three Anointings

    15/07/2019 Duration: 42min

    July 14, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms 1st John 2:18 • Sometimes we busy, modern people need to do better with making a place for a relationship with God. • The 1st anointing is the covering of spiritual atonement. (Salvation) This allows access to God and takes away the belief that we are not worthy to be a part of what God is doing. • The 2nd anointing is service & ministering directly unto the Lord. Much like the Old Testament priests were set apart for service unto God, we also have that opportunity to be in the Lord's service. • We should all celebrate the beauty of the redemption of the Lord. It is truly a wonderful thing that Jesus Christ has done for us. • The 3rd anointing is the ministering & service to other people. • The cross itself shows how we minister vertically as well as horizontally. • In the New Testament, the church body is the ministers of God for this world. • We sometimes bind ourselves in our anointing. • If we can believe that we are anointed, we can then change our world. • We also ne

  • Resolute, Building a Faith that Finishes

    11/07/2019 Duration: 43min

    July 10, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms Joshua 24:14 • Mercy is not receiving what we deserve, grace is giving to people what they don't deserve. • We should give freely give grace to others because we have freely received, so we should freely give. • We must live lives of worship as a way of being, and not something we do at church. • We must be people of service. • Although we can be resolute about anything, being resolute for a relationship with the Lord must take precedence. • Real leadership is being resolute about you. This means being an example for others. • The experience that others have and experience with your witness for Jesus Christ should help them find their way to the Lord. There is something great about being resolute for being kind, considerate, loving and exemplifying the Fruit of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

  • The Case Of The Carpenter

    09/07/2019 Duration: 58min

    Rev Omar Jolly Mark 6:1-6 • In the day that Jesus walked the earth, carpenters were very skilled. Because the wood was scarce in Israel, they had to be very skilled to not waste wood. • At that time, it was taught, "If you didn't teach your children how to work, you taught them to be a thief." • Although people were overwhelmed by what Jesus taught, they were offended that He was only a carpenter. At that point, they rejected Him. • The Jews expected that their Messiah would be a military leader and rid Israel of the Roman oppression as the time. • Jesus served longer as a carpenter longer than He served as a preacher. Jesus chose to identify common people and blue-collar workers. • When we were low down and dirty and not thinking about God, Jesus was and is willing to identify Himself with us and then sacrifice Himself for us. • A carpenter repairs things and builds things from scratch. If we are broken, Jesus can fix us. Anyone that has broken dreams and aspirations, the Lord wants to fix things for us. Wh

  • The Beauty Of Brokenness

    01/07/2019 Duration: 38min

    June 30, 2019, | Student Pastor Da'waun McCall Ps 51:17 • One of the greatest blessings & curses for humanity is the ability of pointing out problems. • Some may discard broken things but some find a way to restore what is broken. • God is in the business of restoring broken lives & actively pursues people who are broken. • Sometimes we have be stripped down, like furniture that is being restored. • It doesn't take a physician to replace something, but it does take a physician to restore it. • We have become good at hiding our brokenness, even to ourselves. • We can sometimes hide in plain sight. • We celebrate God Who searches for broken lives. • Every mistake is a testimony when we place it in God's hands. • When we are weak but depend on God, that is when we are truly strong. God's strength is made perfect on our weakness. • There has never been someone broken and asking for the Lord's help, that God hasn't restored. Although we are all flawed, not everyone is truly broken realizing their need for restor

  • In Spirit And In Truth

    24/06/2019 Duration: 50min

    June 23, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms First Church CLT\ John 4 • The Apostle John effectively explained Who Jesus is, and not just what happened in history or in His human lineage. • It becomes a toxic environment when we begin comparing ourselves with other people. • Instead, our focus & hearts need to be on God. • If we try to be like someone else, we never learn who we are in God. • Out of understanding of God comes faith in God. • God gives the opportunity to speak the truth in every circumstance if we want to. If we want to progress in God, we must speak the truth to not only God but to ourselves. • God is looking for people who will worship in spirit & in truth. • Wisdom, truth & understanding should be sought in this life, but they aren't enough. Although it is good to be orderly & practical, this can still lead us to mistakes & errors because of our humanity. • We can either be prone to excitement & passion or to truth and knowledge, but by themselves, each is not enough. • We need both spirit & truth

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