I'm so proud to share this. Wayne Edwards, Chair of @PartingtonPari1 , in his day job at Broadoak... Good people, giving time for where we live. I love it ❤️
God isn’t so much looking for the church to be filled with morally upright individuals.
He wants a people transformed into vulnerable & sacrificial lovers who put the needs of others first, willing to make costly choices, overwhelmed by Christ’s love for us.
Festival Manchester is this Friday, and we would love you to pray for everything that's happening. If you don't receive our Prayer email, check out this update from Andy Hawthorne. Can't wait to see you at Wythenshawe Park.
The culture wants to disciple you & your children.
If you’re not being deliberately discipled by Christ, & not regularly being confronted & shaped by his truth, the culture will succeed & you will gradually & maybe unconsciously conform.
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions.
Henri Nouwen
I love Jesus’s amazing resurrection words to Mary, “Go tell my brothers”. Not “Go tell those, failures, deserters, deniers”.
Once followers, later even called “friends”, but now his “brothers”.
Raised with him to newness of life!
Sharing the spoils of his victory!
What grace!
The Christian Life
1. Bible (God to man)
2. Prayer (man to God)
3. Fellowship (believer to believer)
4. Witness (believer to unbeliever)
All in the context of a local church.
Being shaped by the culture is so easy. Believers have a different calling, but it’s not mere religious conformity, it’s being transformed, an internal renewal that continues through life. Ro12:2. Outwardly decaying, our inner man keeps on being renewed. 2Cor4:16. It’s fun!
We don’t know what happens in the next chapter, but Christian, we do know what happens in the last chapter. Jesus comes back, the saints overcome, every tear is wiped away, the dead in Christ are raised, and the gates of hell do not prevail against the Church.
Here are three practical things you can do to help refugees from #Ukraine️ right now especially if you are frustrated with the visa process.
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A pastor in India has been found killed after receiving threats about his faith and ministry.
A further 26 pastors have also been threatened by name and urgently need your prayers. Will you join a day of prayer for them on Friday (8 April)?
Read more: https://t.co/6jntvytqQX
“If you want to do something for me on Mother’s Day, please - help someone else’s mother, on my behalf."
Caitlin Moran
🌻Mothering Sunday Urgent Appeal:
Please consider donating an essential item to support a Ukrainian refugee mothers.
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@caitlinmoran
Before you head off to bed tonight, remember the clocks going forward this weekend ⏰
Share this with someone who needs reminding to get up an hour earlier in the morning!
#SpringForward#daylightsavings