Multi-million best selling author GP Taylor visits Ivy MCR ahead of blockbuster Hollywood film release.

 GP Taylor visits Ivy Manchester this Sunday – as his blockbuster Hollywood movie is filmed.  I’m so excited that this Sunday Ivy Manchester will host a fantastic guest for interview at 7pm at our Didsbury site on Barlow Moor Rd, one of Britain’s best selling authors. We recently hosted the author of The Shack, Wm Paul Young. Now it’s time for some home grown talent. GP Taylor is the author of the best-selling novels Shadowmancer, Wormwood and Tersias. Like myself he has been a police officer and Anglican Vicar, but is also a former rock band roadie and motorcyclist. He worked in the music industry with such bands as The Stranglers, Sex Pistols and Adam and the Ants. He became involved in the occult and lived a life that was, in his own words “into all sorts of weird and wonderful things and wasn’t leading a godly life”. He goes on to say, “I was promiscuous: I was a liar, a cheat and a drunk,” We will learn on Sunday how he then turned to Christianity. This is a great […]

CHOOSE to Change Your Mind!

I promised to put on here the fantastic jpg put together by one of our churches (Ivy Fallowfield) on how they want to live differently. This is a predominantly student area with a rep that’s hedonistic to say the least. Check out the challenge and invitation to live differently by this fantastic church community that meet every Sunday for worship in the 256 Bar on Wilmslow Rd. (And as I speak are going out every night in Lent to bless people on the streets into the early hours).

Leaving A Legacy – Alan Taylor

What sort of legacy are you going to leave? Prov 20 Will you leave a blessing behind? This has a lot to do with character. When we live with Jesus right at the centre, he grows his peace etc in us. Legacy comes from having that at the centre it leaves a mark in our lives. Gen 12 – God promised Abram that if he did what he said he would be blessed AND be a blessing. He’d become part of a spiritual family and community that would change and bless all nations. Christ is for people who know they need a Doctor If you aren’t sure you need a Dr you are probably not ready for Him yet. Jn 1:12 – we get the right to become his family. It starts when you give yourself to God, all of you! 2 Cor8:5 And have you done the second part of that verse!? Given yourselves to one another? Is this church your church Or ‘that church’ Will you be part of what God is doing HERE We are looking to […]

‘Fruitfulness’ – Psalm 1 Debra Green OBE at Ivy MCR

Psalm 1. Debra says she has a green surname but not green fingers. But years ago she bought 3 bedding shrubs to be in the porch (first impressions). She watered them for months and they still looked great. In fact, as good as the day they were bought. Then the visitor pointed out that they were artificial! She had been looking after fake Nurturing something dead The psalmist says we do that, we spend time on trash How foolish Some things and relationships have a negative effect on our growth. Worthless things. Bad company that corrupts. But other things build & help me. 3 lots of 3 word triplets of how habits form Walk, sit, stand Wicked, sinners, scoffers Counsel, path, seat. You see the degenerative procession?! We all want to fit in: it starts with who you walk with, in the counsel of the wicked. Popular opinion matters more than God’s counsel. Wicked means ‘loose.’ Standing here means ‘stopping’ – in the wrong places and counsel. A bad pattern is forming Sinners here means someone who has made a […]

REST – Part 2 of my talk last Sunday at Ivy Kingsway

Hebrews 4, the writer says this about God: “…his work has been finished since the creation of the world.” The rest came out of the finished work. Then it says to us, ‘while the promise of entering his rest is still open, let us take care that none of you should fail… to reach it…’ It goes on to tell of a whole generation of people who SAID they were God’s people, but NEVER entered into His rest.Why? Because they didn’t have FAITH. They didn’t really believe HE could do it. That means it takes FAITH to enter into the REST that God has for us. You have to TRUST God, to REST in God. You have to trust God, if you’ve ever going to rest your soul.

Opportunity To Rest (part 1) – from my talk at Ivy Kingsway this morning

In our Year of opportunity as a Church, I’ve called this talk, ‘Opportunity to rest,’ this is from the NT book of Hebrews, chapter 4. It says.. Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you fail to experience it. For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not add faith to hearing it. But we who believe do enter that rest. (For) God rested on the seventh day from all His works… “Today, if you hear his voice,(are we listening) do not harden your hearts.” So… there remains a rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore make every effort – to enter that rest…  (PRAY) I read this week about a trip to the supermarket that ended with a high speed chase, a frantic call to the police, a border […]