I don't believe it!

The infamous words of Victor Meldrew from one foot in the grave. Today I am another grumpy Scotsman.

Because of delays we are 2 -3 weeks behind getting our literature out for The Ultimate Event at Alton Towers in May. Then with over 13,000 letters to print our all singing all dancing printer decides to throw up an error code which means we have got to get an engineer out with only 2000 printed.

On a brighter note we have now got our literature in and are able to start getting it out there so hopefully we can get back up and running later today.

Here is a message from Ben of This Beautiful Republic.

28 Day Challenge

This weekend we start a brand new teaching series at MKCC named What if...

What if what happened in the early church in the book of Acts happened in our church today. What would that look like?

We will look at:

• What if ... we were devoted?
• What if ... we met together?
• What if ... we were united?
• What if ... we saw miracles?
• What if ... we were generous?
• What if ... we saw life change?

To coincide with this series we are challenging everyone who attends MKCC to take up reading one chapter of Acts each day for 28 days starting 4th February.

I will post my thoughts each day and you are welcome to leave your comments also. Come back on the 4th Feb.

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Praise, Promises and Prayer

Very often in life we try to please people. The wife, the kids, the boss, our friends and even God. And very often what we do doesn't please them at all. You try your best to do what that person wants, to give what they want, to say what they want or to behave like they want, only in the end it doesn't have the desired effect. Because we have misunderstood what it is they really want.

King David wrote a song about this in Psalm 50.

David wrote about people who kept on making sacrifices of their prize animals because that is what they though God wanted. When what he was looking for was much different:

Psalm 50 v 13 - 15 Do you think I feast on venison? or drink draughts of goats’ blood? Spread for me a banquet of praise, serve High God a feast of kept promises, And call for help when you’re in trouble— I’ll help you, and you’ll honor me.”

God wants us to remember who he is, keep our word and ask for help.

Keep smiling

• Great day at church yesterday. Loads of new visitors. 2nd Service packed.
• Finished reenergize you life series.
• Mark used a great illustration to show the pressures that life brings our way and can bring us almost to breaking point. A few planks of wood suspended between 2 chairs with various bricks place in the middle. The bowed wood certainly made the point clearly. Then preached from Matthew 11 v 28 - 30.
• Usually have a day off but a full week of meetings so going to office after a Starbucks.
• Uploaded video of our special MKCC Christmas Gift (Bit late I know)
• The video below will hopefully make you smile on this Monday morning. X Factor here we come.