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2012 Manly Life Website in Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 12,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 20 years to getContinue reading “2012 Manly Life Website in Review”
What Makes a Church Alive?
Last Sunday was truly buzzing at Manly Life. Most of the church turned up to celebrate our first 3 months as a community. People were engaged in the worship, through the talk and in our ministry time at the end. Then everyone stayed around and ate together and sucked down slurpies. It was a greatContinue reading “What Makes a Church Alive?”
Some great thoughts here…
Encountering Glory – Being Changed
I have been living in 2 Corinthians 3 this last week in preparation for our Celebration Service this Sunday and have been blown away. What Paul claims is nothing less than if we turn to Jesus, the veil separating us from God will be taken away and we will encounter his glory – and beContinue reading “Encountering Glory – Being Changed”
Confusing Charismatic with Contemporary or Missional ministry
I have a passion to see churches minister in the power of the Holy Spirit. I draw a lot of strength from the ministries of John Wimber and the Vineyard, the New Wine network of churches and HTB and the Alpha Course. In our city of Sydney though there seems to be a confusion about,Continue reading “Confusing Charismatic with Contemporary or Missional ministry”
Jesus Brings Life – John 10
The vision for our church is to join God in bringing life to Manly. It is the kind of life that Jesus lived… compassionate, whole, healing, full, generous life. And as we grow we hope that life will emerge here in our church community and we will bring life into the wider community! Already IContinue reading “Jesus Brings Life – John 10”
Trusting God When Life is Hard
In the amazing hymn Great is Thy Faithfulness there is a fantastic line “strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow”. The writer of the hymn, Thomas Chisholm lived a very difficult life due to ill health. Despite this, his songs are full of faith and hope in the love of God, and the promisedContinue reading “Trusting God When Life is Hard”
Hang Around Great Leaders to Become a Great Leader
I have been blessed to have just spent a week in NZ at a New Wine Leaders retreat. It was a reminder of the blessings of being able to spend time with great leaders. No matter what sphere you exist in, if you can spend time with people who have achieved great things, you willContinue reading “Hang Around Great Leaders to Become a Great Leader”
Leading a Response after Sermons
When I was 21 I lived for a year in South Africa and Kenya. I was blessed to be asked to do quite a bit of open air preaching. The expectation was that after my message I would ask people to respond by making a decision to follow Jesus. Hence about half way through theContinue reading “Leading a Response after Sermons”