Joomla! site syndication http://godsgap.net Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:22:22 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://godsgap.net/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://godsgap.net Joomla! site syndication http://godsgap.net/content/view/1/ We are a Church Community made up of a collection of families; dads, mums, youth and kids with a sprinkle of granddads and grandmas. We desire not just to live life but to love life. We are very genuine in our love for Jesus Christ, for each other and for our community in the Gap. Our desire is to evidence the love of Christ both in our lives and through our lives. As a Church we do this by caring for people; we worship together every Sunday, we have life groups, life pods, youth socials, we mentor children at Hilder Road Primary School and help out with chaplaincy. Check out What's on? for more info about how we are caring for people. To find us click on Find Us. Each Sunday Message is videod so that you can listen or watch it online. There is a panel with the title Watch or Listen here , click on either MP3 Audio , Fast Broadband Video or Slow Broadbane Video to access the messages. Information - General Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:36:06 +0100 http://godsgap.net/content/view/498/28/ Western Echo Newspaper Article I’m currently doing a distant education counselling course which has proved both stimulating and personally painful. I’ve begun to evaluate my life; my motives, my strengths (which can be weakness), my fears and my addictions. In short I’ve started asking the question “What is good.”Much of what I do and don’t do is based on what I functionally believe is good. For example I like things to be fast, slow = bad. I ride a motor bike, I like playing squash more than tennis and I like anything that is intense. But recently I’ve come to realise that fast is not always good. Sometimes missing the bus and having to wait can benefit me by forcing me to slow down (assuming I’m not calling fire down from heaven).Slowing down means that I’m more likely to have to face my fears and hurts which ‘fast’ helps me avoid. I know that some people choose to escape their fears by withdrawing, personally, emotionally and perhaps even physically. Why do I find it easier to play computer games, to hide in my man cave rather than make the effort to relate to my wife and kids? It’s because good = what makes me feel good. That varies a lot from person to person. Maybe romance, sex, alcohol, drugs, novels, movies, comfort food are what feels good to you. Here is what I believe is always good. These are qualities that we should seek to develop; “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. (Galatians 5:22-23).” These qualities are the very nature and character of Jesus Christ which explains why they are called the ‘Fruit of the Spirit.’ As we face 2010 lets be more thoughtful about what we will try to achieve, avoid and consume. Instead of seeking what makes us feel good the challenge is for us to do good for goodness sake. Listen to or watch my messages on this theme @ www.godsgap.net/goodness Articles - Western Echo Articles Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:59:09 +0100 http://godsgap.net/content/view/499/32/ Beyond distractionBeing a father of four kids I’ve learnt to work and study with all manner of household noise. But I do have my limits, particularly when the kids have gone mad with silliness and I’m on the phone. That’s when I politely tell the person to hang on and then ROAR for QUIET!!!!.How many voices yell for your attention throughout the day. I’m talking about the voices of your desire. Things like wishing you could get married, wishing you weren’t married, wishing your kids would turn out right, wishing you had just a bit more money, wishing you could have a restful holiday, wishing work or school wasn’t so hard.We live in a noisy world because our hearts are noisy. The Bible calls this noise and these wishes “the lust of the flesh.” A lust is a normal desire gone mad. For example you may want your kids to grow up right to be a good person who loves God. That is a normal desire given by God. However it can easily go mad and be transformed into a lust, something that you must have, something that you can’t do withoutWhen your child is naughty do you go way over the top, are you like a KGB agent always on their case, exposing their every flaw, correcting their every wrong. Do you yell and rage at your child because they continue to disobey you? That is not God given, it is Lust.Lust is deceptively common and we often expect God to fulfill it for us. We want health, a good job, to be popular, to be happy and not sad, to be able to retire, to have good friends. But all of these are voices which can yell at you for their attention, that poor anxiety into your life, that fill your heart with noise. Today’s Psalm is about calming our hearts so that we are quiet on the inside. Not so much by ignoring the noise but by learning to hear one clear and true voice that comes from Christ’s lips. When we tune in to him then we will have peace. the Rev Messages from God's Word - Get thinking messages Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100