October’s men’s breakfast is upon us! Come join us for a big ‘man-breakfast’ and a chat.
From 8:30 for a full English breakfast, Saturday 27th October at the Hall, Christ Church, Warminster. Directions at the bottom of this post.
If you want to come along please let us know for catering numbers; either email strive.warminster@gmail.com or call the office 01985 212138.
See you Saturday!
The green arrow is the place;
Final call for joining us for the Codelife men’s day We have somewhere between 7 and 12 Strive guys coming on Saturday – so don’t miss out!
Buy a ticket via the link at the bottom and let us know you are coming so we can ensure we have enough cars (email link at the bottom, or just comment on this post) – there is plenty of space at the moment. We will meet 8am at the Church Hall car park, and back there about 5.30pm (the program covers 9-4 in Bristol).
Join Carl Beech, Mark Melluish and Anthony Delaney for a day of learning, inspiration, encouragement and friendship; it could just be life-changing.
Have you been called to the fight of your life? To take a hit for the gospel? You have the potential to be a powerful change-agent in your church, workplace and family.
These days will resource you with everything you need to challenge those around you, and will include equal measures of learning, inspiration, encouragement and friendship.
Further details & booking; http://www.new-wine.org/events/courageous-bristol
Join Strive at this event. Book a ticket & let us know so we can share travel and an inspirational day;
Strive.Warminster@gmail.com
Tomorrow we continue our bible study meetings October 13th, 8.30 in Christ Church. We plan to make these meetings fit in a busy schedule, so we promise to finish by 9:30 at the latest.
We’ve been meeting once a month to look at Mark’s Gospel, finding out some amazing things along the way.
It’s never too late to join in, and you don’t need any prior knowledge or experience. Just a mind to explore and see where this journey takes us.
We look forward to seeing you there!
These following two readings came up in a single day, one in the UCB Word for today, and the other in my children’s Topz daily notes. In fact I was thinking through the Deuteronomy one whilst the Proverb came along. I do love when that happens… I need the message loud and clear, and clearly God knows that!
Proverbs 28:18 (The Message)
“If you care for your orchard, you’ll enjoy its fruit; if you honor your boss, you’ll be honored.”
Deuteronomy 26:16-19 (NLT)
“Today LORD your God has commanded you to obey all these decrees and regulations. So be careful to obey them wholeheartedly. You have declared today that the LORD is your God. And you have promised to walk in his ways, and to obey his decrees, commands, and regulations, and to do everything he tells you. The LORD has declared today that you are his people, his own special treasure, just as he promised, and that you must obey all his commands. And if you do, he will set you high above all the other nations he has made. Then you will receive praise, honor, and renown. You will be a nation that is holy to the LORD your God, just as he promised.”
So what is it about? In my mind it’s speaking about not cutting corners, in anything. From keeping your house tidy, to finishing off a bit of paid work to the best of your ability. It’s easy to think that it’s just about doing the right thing at church, or just treating people right, but this is also saying it matters to God that you give your best at home to your wife and kids. At work it matters too; not just in doing your best work, but also not gossiping, or bitching about the boss. The latter is why I chose the message version – quite clear about the boss! It occurs to me that the boss will be different people at different times – line manager(s), board members, vicar/pastor, team captain, wife, etc.
If you’ve read Codelife this fits well in IV – I will not cheat in anything, personal or professional. If you’ve not read or heard about Codelife yet, go and have a look at Codelife.org for more on that.
There are two sides to this though, in both of these texts. …you’ll enjoy the fruit; you’ll be honoured (Proverbs) Then you will receive praise, honor, and renown (Deuteronomy). Do your best in everything, do everything He tells you (literally in Deuteronomy), and you will receive praise and honour. We’re not promising great riches here, the honour maybe only in heaven, but that is for eternity… Anyone told you to play the long game? Well there it is.
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