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LAUNCH 2018 IS FULL – AND I’M TEARING UP MY ‘DREAM NAPKIN’
If you’ve read Dave and Jon Fergusons’ book Exponential (if not why not?) one of its main ideas is that you draw your vision on a napkin. (Check out Dave’s artwork from a recent tweet on this) I’m not...
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Dr Gary Chapman – God Speaks Your Love Language!
What a privilege to host New York Times #1 best selling author Dr Gary Chapman at Ivy Church yesterday for two services and then a special afternoon event focusing on children and marriage at Ivy...
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Lying Down Beside Still Waters, In Nettles.
10 years ago I had a nasty fall off a mountain bike, smashed the bike helmet (this is why I always wear one) my right shoulder, and my neck. I knew I’d got it bad when the first thought I had as a spat...
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What Season Are You In?
From the window where I’m sitting the season is one of my favourites – autumn, but the people I was with last week would call it fall, and by virtue of the fact that people read the blog from all over...
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You Can Build A Ship, But You Can’t Make The Wind Blow. Matt Chandler
My notes from a stand out talk from this year’s Exponential West 2016; At conferences, you see the speakers up there, like they have something special going on, and then there’s’ little old me.’ Like...
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Pray For Manchester Today – Blog – More Questions Than Answers
Police work at Manchester Arena after an explosion at the venue during an Ariana Grande gig in Manchester, England Monday, May 22, 2017. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP) I go to bed early. But through the...
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Time For #HugsNotHate in Manchester after the bomb
I blogged the morning of the bombings about how as I discovered the news about the brutal attack at the Manchester Arena I realized I was walking around with my fists clenched, and how it’s hard to...
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There Are Too Many People Coming To Church
You’ll probably be surprised to hear a church leader saying that. The papers love to report the decline/demise of ‘Christianity/faith/religion’ in the nation – so any survey that points that way is of...
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Did God Just Show Me His Three Year Plan For The Church?
Recently in response to sincere questions from members about how, where and when we will meet in future, I replied that the only real certainty I have about tomorrow and the rest of the year, is that...
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Curses and Blessings, Balaam & Barak
This morning in my daily reading plan I’m going through Numbers (from Chapter 22) and came to the strange tale of Balaam, the sorcerer prophet for pay asked by the enemy Moabite king Balak to curse...
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