Riverside Church Hoddesdon

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.