Excited

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I’m so excited, this just arrived from ICMBooks Direct who trade on Amazon and with their own website (Their Amazon store is often slightly cheaper). “The Gospel According to John” by D.A. Carson is the definitive commentary on John. I’m looking forward to spending the first half of next year digging into John at The […]

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Evernote

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Okay, so I am a late adopter, but I am loving Evernote to keep quotes, notes and clippings for future use! Best of all it is free! Evernote works on all platforms and most devices and synchronises your notes to the cloud, so they are available across your devices. It has a super search engine […]

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Ouch

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Ouch! I’m reading a book “The art of Neighbouring” where the authors are writing about putting loving your neighbour into real practice. All very innocuous and nice until I got to page 36, where they have what is jokingly called the chart of shame. The idea is to write a little a bit about the […]

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Handle with Prayer

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Handle with Prayer by Charles Stanley is free on Amazon Kindle at the moment and an utter gem of a book! In eleven chapters Charles Stanley casts a vision for praying and delivers helpful pointers to developing a life that is full of prayer and breakthrough. He tells us “It is in prayer that our […]

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Reading Well!

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Reading well is important to leaders! Michael Hyatt says Readers are leaders and leaders are readers. I’ve always made it my practice to make the most of any reading I get to do. I’m not the fastest reader, but here’s how I try to make it memorable and useful. 1) I read with a highlighter […]

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God is faithful!

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One of God’s promises that has sustained me over the last 12 years planting churches is Phil 1:6 “And I am sure of this that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” What God begins, He carries on, what He carries on He […]

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New Version

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Okay, the rewrite has been tested and so far everything is working smoothly. I’ve just updated wordpress.org and so 0.4.41 is available now. The directory is stored differently to 0.3x – every person has their own record within a household now – if you are upgrading it should be smooth, BUT… I’ve assumed everyone is […]

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How to build a magnetic church

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I bought “How to build a magnetic Church” because I have quoted it often when talking about the importance of visiting visitors. When laypersons make 15 minute visits to the homes of first time Sunday visitors within 36 hours 85% of them retun the following week. Make this home visit within 72 hours and 60 […]

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