“I’m drawing God.”
When curses are turned to blessings
Balak takes him to a place where he can only see the rubbish of the camp. (Anyone eager to point that out in your life? Guess who sent them!). It must be easy to curse when all you can see is the negative.
The parable of the fans
I was asked to speak at a funeral today of a lovely Christian lady. The first time I met her she only had one question to ask, (it’s what she first asked her husband when they met too i’m told) which many Mancunians would relate to; “United or City?”
Virgin Birth defines history
It’s a shame when those who are supposed to lead churches seem to have less faith n the Bible than the average non Christian
Thinking Bigger
that first Christmas Jesus came to a very busy place, where people were gathering and crammed in! We are us taking the real message of what Christmas is all about to where people are – not where we’d want them to come.
This Little Light
I encourage you to watch this fantastic video which LZ7 (who come to my church!) have put together for one of their most infuriatingly catchy songs.
Pray for Orissa
Please watch this video and pray for our brothers and sisters who are suffering in India. Burning churches, terrible violence raped women, many in hiding. This from the Barnabas fund site: At least 50 Christians have been murdered, some cut to pieces and others burnt alive. Many fear that the death toll is even higher, with one estimate suggesting that 120 Christians have been killed. About 18,000 people have been injured, many of them severely; numerous Christian women have been raped; some 4,400 homes have been destroyed; 300 villages have been cleansed of all Christians; and several orphanages and hundreds of churches and church buildings have been torched and razed. Relief camps, where Christians have fled for safety and shelter, have been attacked and drinking water has been poisoned. Over 50,000 Christians are thought to be homeless, and around 30,000, more than half of them children, are hiding in the jungle, many without any food and water. Starvation is a very real danger for many of them, especially for the children, the elderly and the sick. Christians wanting to return […]
Encouragement by numbers
we’ve all lived in this community so long together, we know all of each other’s jokes.
The Triangle – worth singing about!
God wants to grow us UP:
to stretch you in your relationship with God…
God wants us to grow IN:
to stretch you in your relationships IN the church…
God wants us to grow OUT:
to stretch you in mission and engagement with the world he loves.
THE SQUARE – what to do in D2?
You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be