Christmas Splendour & Audacious Faith

"I think I have audacious faith figured out. It has nothing to do with how much faith you can muster it has more to do with how much you have the audacity to ask for!"

- Angela De Souza

God has once again blown our minds away here at D7. We've made a discovery that is life changing purely by accident: The essence of audacious faith is... 'audacious asking'. As simple as that! When God smiles upon something there is nothing we can do to stop it! 

Our Christmas Ball for instance. Three times we came close to cancel the whole thing. It was just too much money, technical requirements, hassle etc. All these things disappeared, how? I don't know... try asking God!

Why is D7 Church's Christmas Splendour a miracle?

- We have [Dweeb] joining us as special guests. We couldn't have a better band performing at this ball. These guys are awesome, I highly recommend this band so check them out here!

- Paul James, leader of our amazing city and his collegues are coming to the ball.

- Brian Jones of GEAR is also coming.

- All the costs, technical requirements, hassles have been taken care of. The staff at the Gloucester Guildhall rock!

- Members of the homeless community are going to be our guests of honour. AWESOME!

- People from other churches are going to be present. Talk about church unity!

- The press is writing an article about the church and all that we are doing for the community. They are coming to the ball too. Come on church let's make the name of Jesus famous!

- We needed a place, preferably in Gloucester to house our guests before the Christmas Ball. We got a place and it's only 5 minutes from the venue from someone that is also a Christian and we barely know. Watch out, Christians in Gloucester are coming together. There will be nothing we will not be able to achieve.

- Loads of disconnected youth are going to be there. 

- Money has been donated towards catering.

- Things now are much bigger than we are and it just keeps on getting bigger and bigger.

- This Ball is promising to be the best Christmas Ball Gloucester has had in years! It is good to see Jesus' church taking the lead.

D7 Christmas Splendour

We have confirmation that the Right Worshipful The Mayor of Gloucester (Councillor Jan Lugg) and her Consort (Mr. Steve Lugg) will be joining us along with the Leader of the Council (Paul James) and his Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Housing and Health (Andrew Gravells). 

This event  is going to be massive, tickets are going fast, make sure you get yours here.

Waffle, Coca-Cola For Communion & Church Unity

You live and learn. I have made the painful discovery that as a preacher I waffle a lot! - Which is interesting because I am the type of person that likes short punchy thoughts as opposed to long detailed sentences. Huh... weird...!

I am obsessed with self-improvement, not because I care what people think about me but because who I represent. We at D7 Church see ourselves as Kingdom Representatives. We are change agents, we are Jesus' PR in this world. So I've decided to systematically engineer my messages and I've invited the Holy Spirit to be my senior partner (God Knows I need all the help I can get!). 

Interesting that when you realise that you need to improve in a certain area you open up a whole new dimension.  You also realise that you are falling short in other areas too. I definitely need to romance my gorgeous wife more often and I definitely need to spend more time playing with my amazing children. Our families are by far our best investment.

On the absence of grape juice we had Coca-Cola for communion with our team the other day. Is this profane? What would Jesus do? Lots to ponder...

I am excited out of my mind! This week we are going to take over the service at Park Street Mission. This meeting house was founded over 330 years ago. What a privilege! We are running their evening service. What an amazing expression of church unity. We are doing this because we can and because we care not because is the most profitable, glamorous and comfortable thing to do! We will be there to support Pastor Jacqui Green. Join us if you can!

Also if you are a church leader, what are you pro-actively doing to promote unity among the body of Christ? We can't afford not to. Remember we are one in Christ, different expressions, flavours and styles but we are still one body.

Park Street Mission here we come!

Hope's Journey

My wife's first book has just been released on Amazon. Hope's Journey is available on Amazon both in paperback and ebook.

The thing about this book is that it will either save your life or help you save someone else's. A true masterpiece full of insight and extremely practical suggestions. ‘Find Your Purpose’ is definitely my favourite chapter full of timeless life changing truth.  

I highly recommend this book!!!

I also would be extremely grateful for your comments both on Amazon and on her blog.