Tag: Church

GOD’S GREATEST SERMON. Judah Smith. Catalyst #cat2011

GOD’S GREATEST SERMON: Judah Smith at Catalyst 2011 Exodus 33 Consider the glory of God. its implications in your life. 12 Moses said to the LORD, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with me.’ 13 If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.”  14 The LORD replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”  15 Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. 16 How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”  17 And the LORD said to Moses, “I will do the very […]

Jim Collins – GREAT BY CHOICE. Catalyst 2011

Anyone who’s a student of Leadership will be familiar with Collins. In this talk he gave us a synopsis of his new book – GREAT BY CHOICE. Buying it was a no brainer. Good is the enemy of Great. Systematically, what separates the two? He takes an empirical approach to that. Compare those that became great, with those that didn’t – in the same field and circumstance. Greatness is not about circumstance but discipline and choice. Rate the world you’re in, 1 to 10. 1= Nothing can hurt you, it’s moving slow. Stable. 10 – There are consequences to messing up, things can hurt you, turbulent. Question – why do some organisations and leaders THRIVE in the face of change and still perform very well? You get Great by Choice. The answer is not what happens to you, but the choices and actions that separate some from others. What have they found? LIFE IS PEOPLE. It all begins with people. As he said in Good to Great – you need to ask Who should be on the bus, then get […]

DEBRA GREEN: Nehemiah 10 – 13. The house of God.

Debra rounded off our series tonight. She began by talking about competing voices – a time in the week when there were 2 sat navs going in the church, which one do we listen to? God’s word to is the Bible, and Nehemiah kept having to come back to that, and call people back to what the Lord had said. 10:28 Now the rest of the people—the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and understanding— these joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes. At what age can a child understand and come into the things of God? Josh 24:15 – Choose who you will serve! As for me […]