Debra Green at Ivy Manchester Olympic Church The Main Event Life’s full of challenges, there are hurdles in the race of life. How do we sustain? Hebrews 12:1-3 This shows us how not to lose heart! We have got so much surrounding us, that’s helping us on. 1) All Heaven is on your side! Jesus is praying for you, interceding for you before the Father. Especially at the times when you fail and feel discouraged, 2) The heroes of faith – listed in chapter 11: the church Triumphant. They did it! They made it! They kept going and crossed the line. And it wasn’t all glory days and perfect obedience 3) The church militant, Those we are running with now. The way you run is critical to someone running alongside you. You are part of someone else’s crowd. How do you look when you look at you? The ministry of smiling. Of hospitality. Of rejoicing in your success. Do you feel like giving up? Sickness, debt, job loss? The people around you need you to keep going. They are in […]

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Psalm 67 It’s a missionary’s psalm. May ALL the peoples praise you!! One of the emphases of Proverbs is the need for wisdom. So much information – so little wisdom these days. People can be brilliant in one field and awfully foolish in other ways. The wiser you get, the less confidence you’ll get the truth you need from the media. Most people who go Overseas in mission end up going back to their own country – and end up influencing there. So Go into all the world! 2000 years on, how is that going? 5 different kinds of countries: 1) Massive Growth: 1 million more Christians a year in Brazil. Exploding growth in S Korea And China, church growth spreading from countryside to the cities. Philippines. Singapore. Many nations – Global South. This was not true 50 years ago! We long for more here! 2) significant breakthroughs – but not great. Algeria. Very little fruit visible for some missionaries USA – lots of new movements, but some decline. 3) People think nothing’s happening – but it is. Eg France. […]

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Let’s conspire together to act together to do some good this Christmas. Not allowing ourselves to become so enamoured with all the stuff we forget the stable. To do that, we have to spend less. People right now are getting trapped. Ex 32:1-4 Summary? ‘Come- make us gods…’ So they took off their jewellery and made it into an idol, and said ‘these are our saviours, and worshipped them. They corrupted themselves and invoked the wrath of the real God. This was 1 Built on wrong inspiration. It says ‘When the people saw…’ At the same time as Moses was hearing/listening to God. What do you see? Genesis 3 talks about how Eve was deceived by what she saw sensually and naturally – that closed down the hearing of the supernatural voice of God. We lose the bigger picture. We stop trusting God & fashion our own. Shaped the god they wanted to accommodate them. They were blinded by their stuff. Obsessed with the calf so they couldn’t see the cloud! God was close, but the calf blocked their view. […]

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I’ve heard this story before in talks but only just spotted its source (Jerome). When the venerable John could no longer walk to the meetings of the Church but was borne thither by his disciples, he always uttered the same address to the Church; he reminded them of that one commandment which he had received from Christ Himself, as comprising all the rest, and forming the distinction of the new covenant, “My little children, love one another.” When the brethren present, wearied of hearing the same thing so often, asked why he always repeated the same thing, he replied, “Because it is the commandment of the Lord, and if this one thing be attained, it is enough” [JEROME].