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Working to advance the kingdom
To reach lives, to touch souls
Being a generation that seeks God’s face

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Brick Walls

Ever feel like every time you try something there is a huge brick wall blocking your path? Every time you try to make a difference there is some sort of obstacle? Every time you want to try something fresh something gets in your way?

So often it seems like just when we are all fired up and ready to do something to try and serve God we get knocked back. Someone drops out. The funding doesn’t come through. An illness crops up. And it can be discouraging. But listen to what James says:

“Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.” James 1:2-4 Continue reading this →

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Christ is Risen – Matt Maher

Today as you listen to this Worship Wednesday song remember that Christ is indeed risen from the dead and we have nothing to fear from the world, we have forgiveness for our sins at the cross, the enemy has been defeated, because of His death and resurrection we have freedom to live the life He calls us to. O death, where is your sting? Oh hell, where is your victory? God’s glory has defeated the night – sing it loud for all to hear! Our God is not dead, He is alive and reigning!

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SoulPrint Review

Soulprint by Mark Batterson is a book about your God given identity, based on five incidents from the life of David in the Old Testament. It is all about how to be the unique person God created you to be, and is a pretty good read.

The main theme running through the book is that God is central to our identity – that it isn’t about us, but about Him. There is a great chapter about the need to have memorial objects (photos, souvenirs etc) around our house/work place to remind us not of the great things we have done, but of the amazing things God has done in our lives, because we so easily forget. Continue reading this →

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Bunk bed railings

I spent the summer sleeping in what was essentially the top bunk of a bunk bed (it didn’t have a bottom bunk, that was a general storage area for all my stuff.) The bed would have been a good 1.5m or so off the ground, which was solid concrete. I was living in a cabin full of campers who were sleeping in similar bunk beds, only they didn’t have a storage area under their bunks, they had the standard bunk bed set-up of two beds.

There was one other important difference between my bed and the campers. On the top bunks of the beds used by the campers there was a protective railing that the health and safety people said had to be there to stop them falling out. I found this railing quite annoying, as it was a hassle to have to climb over rather than be able to just pull yourself onto the bed or get out of it easily. And it meant you couldn’t sit with your legs hanging over the edge of the bed. Fortunately the health and safety people didn’t seem so concerned about me as they were about the campers, and they were happy that if the railing was present near the bed, it didn’t need to be put in place. So the first thing I did was take it off and store it in the storage area under the bed. After all, I was not in the habit of falling out of my bed at home, and I had slept in the same bed the previous summer with no problems. (I think the health and safety inspectors were under the impression that every night I would be putting the railing back where it belonged. But I never told them that, so my conscious is clear…)

One night in the middle of the summer I woke up in the middle of the night in the middle of the air, falling rapidly from my bed to the hard floor beneath me. I had been having some weird vivid nightmarish dream, and suddenly I was aware I was falling, and then I realised I was now awake, and the floor was fast approaching, and it was going to hurt. Somehow reflexes took over and I managed to land in something resembling a crawling position so my knees and arms took the worst of the impact, but I was left on the floor for several minutes unable to move. Needless to say it isn’t something I want to do again. Continue reading this →

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Exit Stage Left

We like to be the centre of attention. We like to be the big deal. We want people to take notice of us, and be impressed. (Don’t believe me? Just take a look at Facebook…) Even in worship some of us like to be the guy or girl who is up there at the front jumping around while everybody has to look at you to see the words on the projector (just one of the reasons why I’m bringing hymnal back, you powerpoint users won’t know how to act…)

But that is not God’s way. In Philippians 2:3-4 he tells us to “Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. Don’t think only about your own affairs, but be interested in others too, and what they are doing.” His Son Jesus was born not in a palace, but a lowly stable. We should not be living to seek fame and attention for ourselves, but should boast only in what Christ has done for us. We must decrease so He can increase. It is time to stop hogging the limelight, and turn the spotlight onto God, for He alone is worthy. Continue reading this →

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Rend Collective Experiment – Second Chance

Worship Wednesday is a new, regular feature for Wednesdays, with a worship video kindly provided each week by youtube, and some quick thoughts to mull over as you listen to the song.

Kicking things off with a song from the new Rend Collective Experiment album, Second Chance, which is all about the forgiveness we have through what Jesus did on the cross. Maybe you have messed up. Maybe you have stumbled. But take hope from the fact that God never gives up on you, and there is always forgiveness at the Cross. The Cross changes everything!

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