Value at the core of his church – welcome everyone. Acts 17. God wants us to reach, & he’s not far! Idea:,after worship,,before talk: get people to go to loo or get a drink or say hello to those round them. Rom 8:28ff If you read the Bible a lot you get to hear the voices:,here he voices that God works in all things for our good- That’s love! When Paul proclaims that – then he soars! Tells us God has a destination of salvation for us. That love changes everything. Nothing can separate us from that kind of love. The reason we don’t embrace the unstoppable love of God is 1. We define it wrongly We are used to a more incomplete & immature definition of love. We think it’s ‘You do what I want so I love you.’ you give me that so I love you. Gods love is bigger & more challenging. Not self focused. Gods love is self sacrificing. A higher standard 2. We don’t understand the cost of love. That when we love deeply it’s […]
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…if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?
Diamond Geezers: FRIENDS
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Surprised by Joy
“..the hardest boiled of all the atheists I ever knew sat in my room on the other side of the fire and remarked that the evidence for the historicity of the Gospels was really surprisingly good. “Rum thing,” he went on. “All that stuff ….. about the Dying God. Rum thing. It almost looks as if it had really happened once.”
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VIDEO – the year of multiplication
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‘IMPRESS THE LADS WITH YOUR WORLD CUP KNOWLEDGE.’
I can’t retain football information, or (this is hard to say, I feel less than a man now) any sporting trivia. But I’m pretty good on capital cities and films.
Soil test
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Choose Life
I’ve placed in front of you Life and Good Death and Evil. Deuteronomy 30:15 (Message Version) The Bible’s a story about God and people. A generous God who loves, and loves to bless people – trying to get them to live fully under his blessing now and forever. He lays it out clearly time and again that really there are only two ways to live; Blessing or curse, (real life – or death). Blessing or cursing Some people choose the path, the life that is death – of curse and cursing: Something goes wrong, they look to who we can blame, get bitter, shake a fist. We can curse governments, institutions, the banks, because ‘someone’ should do something about it. This cursing will lead you to think in a scarcity mentality. Protect, conserve, hoard, safeguard. There’s not enough to go round. Unless I want to spend it on me and mine. As the election looms I don’t recall hearing anyone talk about how blessed we are on this country. We need to get out more! We curse the immigrants, the […]