Thoughts on Life, Christian Leadership and anything else I have an opinion on.
Its funny often this time of year we all hear it, New Years Resolutions galore! These New Years Resolutions lasted about 7 days and we are back to our own ways.
What New Years Resolutions have you got?
I have decided that this year I am going back to basics. 6 years ago on a New Years Day I walked into Kings Church for the first time knowing nobody other than have a brief phone call with the Senior Pastor Derek Smith. [click to continue…]
I recently re-tried to read the entire New Testament in 30 days, inspired by Elevation’s New Thru Thirty. I started off on the first day of reading pretty well, matthew 1-3 pretty smooth. I then opened Matthew 4 – This caught my attention and I have spent the entire week meditating, pondering and digging deeper into this passage! Let me explain! [click to continue…]
Matthew 8:1-3Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy
1 When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him.2 A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”
3 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy. [click to continue…]
So this last Thursday and Friday I went to the very first This New Republic conference for College Students / Uni Students and Young Adults aimed at 16-30′s. Whilst I was expectant, there are many conferences and churches that cater for this age group across the nation but this was the first conference aimed at this age group.
As I went over for a leaders breakfast with a guy called Andy Gourley from Red Frog Ministries. I knew he was an Aussie, he was good at University ministry but I had one of those moments where the light bulb went on in my head and my heart. The rest of the crew from Kings Bolton came across and I was so excited and my brain was in overdrive.
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Its not often we have the opportunity to have 7 prominent church leaders, discussing church leadership and get openly opposed on TV by their peers!
As the event said themselves
See what happens when seven influential pastors get in a room, under the bright lights, and fight for the truth. Welcome to The Elephant Room
Here is a clip of The Elephant Room [click to continue…]
This New Republic is a new conference for 2011 aim at 16 – 30′s. College Students / University Students / Young Adults
I have often asked the question, what is happening specifically for Young Adults? What happens when someone hits 16 and they don’t want to be a Youth Leader but they want to live for Christ? How do we support people through the area of their lives when most of their big decisions are about to be formed? [click to continue…]
Over the last week I have been doing lots of reading about a story right at the start of 1 Samuel. I was serving in our Kids Church a couple of weeks ago and a lady started to share from this story. God started to ask me some questions. The day after I started a new reading plan on Faith from You Version and the same verse was on day 1.
I started to study this story and passage from a lady called Hannah. God started to speak to me on the following [click to continue…]
Thanks for visiting my site. My name is Steve, 33 and total believer in the local church. I co-ordinate our student outreach programme called Red Frogs partnering with Bolton University. I also look after any new visitor at Kings Bolton in an attempt to give the warmest welcome possible.