Latest podcast now available in the multimedia section of the site under Audio Sermons and is titled : ” Ask, seek, knock.”

September 25th, 2011.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”

Matthew 7:7-12, NIV

The music used in the opening and closing sequences of this podcast is called ‘Frescoes’, by Alexandr Filippov.
It is released under a Creative Commons licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) and is available from http://www.jamendo.com.

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September 11th, 2011.

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.”

Matthew 7:1-6, NIV

The music used in the opening and closing sequences of this podcast is called ‘Frescoes’, by Alexandr Filippov.
It is released under a Creative Commons licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) and is available from http://www.jamendo.com.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:50 — 14.1MB)

Well it seems a while since I sat down and had a type…no excuses except that we have had a full on summer, which now seems a long time ago.

A fantastic time on the North west coast of Scotland was followed very quickly by Sue and Ruth flying off to Hyderabad with a small team, 3 adults and 8 young people, to assist and help with the work the church in Hyderabad does in the local community. They were home for a night and then it was straight off to Grapevine on the Lincolnshire showground.

This week sees us full on again with Smartiz and Link ladies tomorrow afternoon and evening. We have already had our first Purpose Driven Pint of this new Season where we discussed 9/11 and managed to eat lots of chips n sausages, courtesy of the Dacre Arms.

Church last night was truly excellent and God blessed us with 26 people (I know it is not about numbers, but it is nice when people do turn up)…..you know the feeling, when you just do not expect anyone through the door and then people keep coming……Our worship time was truly awesome as Mike and the band led us into God’s presence and Jayne gave us an excellent talk on Matthew 7 v 1~6. (Podcast should be up on the site soon. ) Judging others….who are we to judge anyone, especially relevant as yesterday marked 10 years since the atrocities of 9/11. It is not up to us to judge the terrorists……………….listen to the podcast.

And of course we had doughnuts and muffins……… Sue was only going to get a few doughnuts, I am so glad we bought enough………….I cannot wait for the day when we have to buy trays full of the sticky, gooey, jammy, doughy balls of nutritional goodness.

I really feel that we should be starting to have an urgency about our work as a church and individually……we have got to get out there and tell people about Jesus we have got to get out there and show people God’s love in action, we have got to get out there….. But you know it is no good getting out there if we aint praying…..We can expend all the energy in the world putting on evangelistic events but if we aint praying it aint going to happen. We must pray, pray and then pray some more for our broken land, we must pray for revival for a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit over our communities so that people will have an awesome supernatural encounter with God and realise that Jesus died so that all might be forgiven. We cannot argue people into the kingdom but we can pray them in. I believe we have entered a new season, it’s time to get serious, it is time for Christians to step up to the mark and fall on there hands and knees and pray for this fallen nation of ours.

Nothing else should matter to us, Jesus should be the first person we think about in the morning, He should be on our mind all day, in everything we do, we should be giving God the glory, in the car at home at work, Jesus is all that really matters in this short life of ours. The most important person in our lives is Jesus, the most important work we do has to be for Jesus.

If we want to see people saved we must pray, if we want to see miraculous stuff happening we must pray if we want to see healings we must pray, if we want to see revival we must pray. It’s happening elsewhere in the world………….it isn’t happening here because we just aren’t serious enough about it. I want to see people come to know Jesus, it is time for us to pray…….

Wouldn’t it be great if people were knocking on our doors asking us about the awesome things that were going on in our churches instead of us having to knock on their doors telling them about our next event.

Father we pray for an outpouring of your Spirit on our land, we pray for a new season of spiritual awakening, a new season of people opening up their hearts to you, a new season of supernatural happenings on our streets and in our homes a new season of miraculous healings. Father as I sit hear listening to the wind rattling around the house and see the trees bending over with the immense power as it blows across the open land, I pray that you will send your Holy Spirit and rattle our houses and homes in the same way, rattle our lives Lord, rattle this nation, Father, bend our knees as the wind bends the trees,  with your immense power, so that all will see and know you are our awesome God. Come Holy Spirit come…………………………

Photographs of the youth worship team, taken at Brandes’  link on the 14th August 2011. Now in the Multimedia section of the site.