A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh.Acts 12 ends with this cryptic note: “But the word of God increased and multiplied.”  Last week we learned how to become witnesses to the Word of God in our lives.  It is one thing to witness and quite another thing for this witness to be accompanied by increase and growth. This increase is both personal and public.Ask the question: Does the Word of God increase and multiply regularly at Eternity Church? The mark of a healthy church is its capacity to grow.  Today too much of church growth is focused on how many people attend a church. Ninety-two percent of church growth is simply moving the pile from one place to another.  Church growth for us at Eternity is not how many people join the church; rather, it is how many new people have believed in Jesus. Our stories are stories of what Jesus is doing in our lives, and in our telling of the story it becomes the invitation for others to enter into what God is doing now. May the Word of God increase and multiply in you and through you!

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Episode 72: October 17, 2021 - Increase and Multiply

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh and the community of Eternity Church.Jesus is at the heart of all mission. And He sends us out into the world to be his witnesses. Witness is to simply tell our story and how God made us a part of his story. We all have favorite biblical characters, bible stories or events. These speak to us in a very personal way. We identify with them and they give us the power to live life.This Sunday come prepared with your own favorite story or character. We are going to invite some of you to share your favorite story. Together we can learn how to tell this story in such a way that we witness to Jesus. We are going to learn how to be comfortable and at ease in stories.Come with a sense of expectation and seek the Holy Spirit to set you free from any fear or anxiety that has prevented you from being bold in your witness. Let this verse from Acts become our experience too: "So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands" (Acts 14:3).

Episode 71: October 10, 2021 - Telling Your Story

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh.The Psalmist says: “Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!” (Psalm 96:3).   This call echoes through thousands of years.  Faithful people obeyed this call and because of that willingness we know God today.  Our children and grandchildren will know God only if there are faithful people who will tell the story of God’s marvelous works. Take a moment and thank God for the persons who were faithful in your life and to whom you owe the knowledge of God.  Tell them your story and thank them!  Ask them what prompted them to share the gospel with you. Many churches are deeply concerned about making disciples. The primary task of the disciple is to proclaim Jesus and invite others to become disciples of Jesus.  If you claim to be a disciple of Jesus Christ, ask yourself is this a priority in your spiritual journey.  This cannot be left only to those gifted with evangelism or the professional ministries.  If you have never invited someone else to become a disciple of Jesus, will you begin by asking God to help you? Then make a list of all people you would love to see become followers of Jesus. Start by praying for them regularly. Seek and expect God to use you to be the primary person to lead them to faith. Come let us share the good news! 

Episode 70: October 3, 2021 - Sharing The Good News

A Sunday sermon by Pastor David Singh.Many of us struggle with the issue that some prayers are answered while others are not. Testimonies of miraculous intervention by God often raise the level of faith so we can expect God to work in the same way in us. We rejoice over such stories of faith.However, for some of us our experience is not a lack of expectation but having no miraculous intervention to our earnest prayer.  This can easily lead to an erosion of faith or a feeling of distance and alienation from God. The church needs to be a place that welcomes these stories of suffering too. How did the early church deal with this in their own lives?  Did they stop praying when prayers were not answered?  Did their understanding of God change?  Do we use our experience to define God?  There is no easy answer, but there are sufficient guidelines to teach us how to live with this tension. Come Lord Jesus and teach us how to rejoice with those who rejoice and to mourn with those who mourn!

Episode 69: September 26, 2021 - Faith, Fear, and Death

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh.Many of us struggle with the issue that some prayers are answered while others are not. Testimonies of miraculous intervention by God often raise the level of faith so we can expect God to work in the same way in us. We rejoice over such stories of faith.However, for some of us our experience is not a lack of expectation but having no miraculous intervention to our earnest prayer.  This can easily lead to an erosion of faith or a feeling of distance and alienation from God. The church needs to be a place that welcomes these stories of suffering too. How did the early church deal with this in their own lives?  Did they stop praying when prayers were not answered?  Did their understanding of God change?  Do we use our experience to define God?  There is no easy answer, but there are sufficient guidelines to teach us how to live with this tension. Come Lord Jesus and teach us how to rejoice with those who rejoice and to mourn with those who mourn!

Episode 68: September 19, 2021 - Faith In Suffering

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh. Acts 11:26 reminds us that it was “in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians."  This is not in Jerusalem where the Apostles and disciples were concentrated, but in Antioch.  It is people from Cyprus and Cyrene that began to proclaim the gospel to non-Jewish people. As a result, many believed and the church grew quickly.  We owe this identity of being Christians and the missionary movement to what took place in Syria. It is amazing how slow and reluctant the early church was to accept that the kingdom of God is now open to all peoples, languages, and tribes. Even today in the American church there is a great divide and a reluctance to be inclusive of people who are not like us. We are more like the Jerusalem church than the church in Antioch. We need the ministry of Barnabas. He recognized the movement of God and knew how to call Saul into it. And it is from Antioch that the missionary movement truly begins.  Let us pray that Eternity will be another Antioch, and we will call one another to take the gospel to the corners of the earth!

Episode 67: September 12, 2021 - The First Christians

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh. Often people will ask me how is it that healings and miracles, which happen in the mission field, are not happening in our church. To understand this, we must first recognize that God works in all places. However, those who have never heard of Jesus may be more ready and open to how God works. We in the church want to control and prescribe how God should work in our world. This limits both our expectation and recognition of God moving in new ways in our world today. In Acts 10, the story of Cornelius highlights how the leaders and the parties in the church were resistant to the move of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit was moving outside the church in the same way the Spirit moved in the church. At Eternity let us be open to the moves of the Spirit both in the church and outside. Let us lay aside prejudices that prevent us from accepting the moves of God.  The Spirit invites us to participate with God.  God wants us to share in what he is doing. Let us join God and see the kingdom come!

Episode 66: September 5, 2021 - God's Word To Those Inside and Outside The Church

A Sunday morning teaching from Charity Cook from Global Awakening.Trusting the Lord"Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, . . . and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit" (Jeremiah 17:7-8).Trust and anxiety do not go together. Trusting God heals our anxiety. As time goes by, we can learn to hear the voice of God and His voice becomes more prominent than any other voice in our lives. Anxiety increases the noise of my own thoughts, trust leads me to rest in the thoughts of God.Our God is the God who speaks to all of us. He speaks to the leaders and to the seekers. He speaks to believers and unbelievers alike. God is the God of revelation! We can hear him in the Word, in dreams and images, even in a voice that gives clear directions as in the case of Cornelius. In our own journey of faith, God wants to speak to us.Let us listen!

Episode 65: August 29, 2021 - Be The Answer

A special teaching from Charity Cook from Global Awakening

Episode 65: August 28, 2021 - The Wind of the Spirit

A Sunday morning sermon by Stand Rev. Ajung Sojwal.The Story of Abraham interceding for Sodom & Gomorrah is a unique revelation of both God and Abraham.  Here, Abraham’s intercession is an example of his relationship with God. At a time when there was no access to any written word of God, Abraham trusted God to speak to him. He was familiar with the voice of God and knew it apart from his own thoughts and desires. So when God visits him, Abraham recognizes this is no ordinary human being but that this is God.The divine visitation of God in human form is no doubt one of life’s greatest moments for Abraham. Here is God in human form, which he can see and even entertain. It is also an amazing story of how God will listen to his faithful servant.  It is one thing to be able to recognize God and quite another to stand before God and repeatedly plead for a city. This event displays both the safety that Abraham feels before God and the grace of God in listening to Abraham. Let us learn to stand before the Lord with confidence and participate in what God is doing among the nations!

Episode 64: August 22, 2021 - Prayer Is

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh.Prayer is the oldest, easiest and most intimate form of connecting with God. The Bible opens with the story of Adam and Eve talking and walking with God. Later we read that Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took him. This is prayer. Prayer is the ladder that takes us to God. The patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph all knew God, found guidance and obedience primarily through prayer. This was long before people knew how to read and write and before the bible came into existence. The book of Psalms has been the earliest and primary prayer book. There is a deep connection between our human condition and the way prayer brings us into the reality of God’s presence and his work in the world today. Wherever you are in your journey of prayer, prayer draws you deeper into God. Jesus is inviting you to come and pray with him!

Episode 63: August 15, 2021 - Prayer Is Going Deeper Into God

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh.Imitating Jesus and being a disciple is believing that Jesus heals.  Whether our prayers are answered or not, we are called to believe that the ministry of healing continues in the life and ministry of the church. The church has often given up praying for healing and expecting miracles because we feel defeated by unanswered prayers.What is the basis for us to continue believing that Jesus answers prayers for healing? First it is the word of testimony as recorded in the gospels. Anyone reading the gospel written by doctor Luke cannot escape the scores of testimonies and witnesses to the healing work of Jesus. Second there is the call to discipleship where Jesus sends out his disciples with the simple command to go and heal the sick and cast out demons, cleanse the leper and even raise the dead. So as his disciples, we go, simply trusting the testimony, believing the call of Jesus and following his example. At Eternity Church we are privileged both to read the gospel testimony and to live out his call until our lives too can be living witnesses to the gospel of Jesus Christ.Go in the Name of Jesus and do what he did!

Episode 62: August 8, 2021 - A Renewal of Faith In The Power of Jesus

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Nelson Ould.There is something attractive about Jesus.   During his earthly minister, many who encountered him were drawn to follow him, and following him meant joining into the work he was doing.In Mark 1 Jesus came into Galilee proclaiming that the spiritual kingdom of God was arriving:  “The time is fulfilled,” he said, “and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe the gospel.”Simon and Andrew encountered Jesus in the midst of their daily work, and received a call to follow him.   That call redirected their energies into a kingdom vocation, from cleaning fishing nets to becoming fishers of men.As we approach worship, may we each encounter the living Christ and the oncoming reality of God’s kingdom in a way that continually re-forms our lives and priorities.Jesus, may Your Kingdom come!

Episode 61: August 1, 2021 - To Follow Is To Fish

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Kevin Germer.In pursuing mission we find revealed many of the elements of our life in Christ. Jesus sends out his disciples in Luke 10, speaking of a ripe harvest and urging earnest prayer for more laborers to follow them. They go out carrying nothing in their hands and return rejoicing at everything God accomplished.Let us capture a fresh sense of what God can do through us. May we catch a vision of kingdom work available at our doorsteps, work that sends Satan and the works of darkness falling like lightning. May we learn to move like little children filled with the power of God!

Episode 60: July 25, 2021 - Pray, Go, Love, and Rejoice!

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh.It is one thing to encounter the glory of God for ourselves and quite another to communicate it to others!  Consider the task of Luke, who never met Jesus, but came to a place of belief through the witness of others before himself writing “an orderly account” of the work of Jesus to Theophilus so “that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught”  (Luke 1:4).We are called to live from that certainty, seeking it for ourselves in greater measure and imparting it to others!   Without impartation, the ministry of Jesus remains confined to an obscure people along the Mediterranean Sea during the age of Rome.   Through clear witness to the next generation, every generation of humanity has been touched by the goodness of God--leading up to and through our worship this week!Let us seek to join that chain of faithful witnesses communicating the glory of God to the next generation.   Jesus, be glorified in our midst!

Episode 60: July 18, 2021 - Joining the Chain Of Witnesses

Biblical based teachings from services held at Eternity Church where we are gathering the nations to worship Christ. Come worship with us Sunday mornings at 10:00 AM at 1200 Wilmington Avenue, Richmond VA 23227 http://www.eternitychurch.com/

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