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International Women’s Day 2022  FULL NOTES I love seeing International Women’s Day as an opportunity to reflect on the past and where we’ve come from, while also looking ahead to what we can still do to make sure women and men have equal opportunity to bring their unique contribution to the world, without privilege or persecution. I am proud to be a woman, but like most women I know, have exp...

This thought is laying heavy on my heart today. I want to come to you as a pastor and friend who has genuine concerns for your future, not just as a leader, but even more than that, as a person, a father, a mother, a son daughter, an employee, a business owner etc… We are at a critical point in our social landscape as a community. We are all re-emerging from 2 years of disrupted and dictated socia...

The Spiritual Discipline Of Living an Above and Beyond Life Above and Beyond - Kingdom First Leadership Time Principle: Deuteronomy 12;15 MSG No working on the Sabbath; keep it holy just as God, your God, commanded you. Work six days, doing everything you have to do, but the seventh day is a Sabbath, a Rest Day—no work: not you, your son, your daughter, your servant, your maid, your ox, your donke...

How To Lead With Bold Belief In 2022 Mark 11:24 TPT This is the reason I urge you to boldly believe for whatever you ask for in prayer—be convinced that you have received it and it will be yours. What is it that we should be setting our leadership sights on and believing God for in 2022? Where are YOU going and what will YOU need to do to get there in 2022? Luke 5:4-8 TPT 'Jesus sat down and taugh...

How Leaders Find Favour In The Fallout Number 1:1-5 MSG God spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai at the Tent of Meeting on the first day of the second month in the second year after they had left Egypt. He said, “Number the congregation of the People of Israel by clans and families, writing down the names of every male. You and Aaron are to register, company by company, every man who is twent...

As a church we have cast fresh, clear and compelling vision about our next season. 2022 is a year for us to BELIEVE again, BELIEVE that Jesus builds His church , BELIEVE that we are BETTER TOGETHER, BELIEVE that we are called to something great, believe that the God does work all things together for GOOD and that the best really is yet to come…..BELIEVE that we will INHERIT God’s promises! Do we B...

How an Honour Culture Will Release Supernatural Favour In A Post Lockdown World   Lessons from the foot of Mt Sinai   In this current season, good church leaders are fighting for unity, making peace, casting vision, building stability, setting direction, securing safety, re engineering community….? How can the church best support their leaders during this season?   Like the Israelit...

Leading With A Clear, Compelling and Ubiquitous Culture in A Post Lockdown World Before the law was given to the Israelites, teaching them how to behave, live together, worship together and go ON MISSION as a community…Moses created a system of leadership…. leadership comes before LAW, ad leadership comes before MISSION ….the same is true at the second Pentecost when we see the 120 (twelve tribes)...

What Should We Carry Out Of Lockdown   What did the Israelites take from Egypt that would prepare and resource them for their new season of freedom? New Worship Exodus 10:26 NLT “All our livestock must go with us, too; not a hoof can be left behind. We must choose our sacrifices for the Lord our God from among these animals. And we won’t know how we are to worship the Lord until we get there....

What Should We Carry Out Of Lockdown   What did the Israelites take from Egypt that would prepare and resource them for their new season of freedom? New Worship Exodus 10:26 NLT “All our livestock must go with us, too; not a hoof can be left behind. We must choose our sacrifices for the Lord our God from among these animals. And we won’t know how we are to worship the Lord until we get there....

Q_What will be helpful for us, as leaders, to consider, as we emerge from the world of 2019 and step into the world of 2022? So that we can grow, raise messes and be an inspiration to our world… Consider your pace…. Consider the people who are with us, and the people we are reaching and NOT the people we have lost   also be OK with people engaging differently (not being ok with less   en...

Contained in this next month of Proverbs & Prayer are some POWERFUL KEYS that will equip leaders to lead like no other leader today.   Proverbs is rooted in timeless wisdom   Proverbs 5:21-22 NLT “For the Lord sees clearly what a man does, examining every path he takes. An evil man is held captive by his own sins; they are ropes that catch and hold him.” Gods wisdom applies to me as...

How should the church respond to divisive social and cultural challenges? “A Leaders 4 Tools To Repair Deep Divisions In Their Culture” There are serious discussions/issues that the church must engage with today! Racial equality, climate change, economic dislocation, deep political divisions etc.. are just some of the pressing issues that have implications for the church today AND for generations...

The 5 Mistakes That Terrible Team Mates Make   Connect with Beyond Church - https://beyondchurch.org.au/connect They Make Team All About Them Philippians 2:3 NLT 'Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. ' We make everything about US, whenever things feel out of control, we take control.... Because i feels safer…BUT this makes eve...

High Maintenance Harry vs Low Maintenance Larry   “The righteous should choose his friends carefully, For the way of the wicked leads them astray.” Proverbs 12:26 NKJV Emotionally high maintenance people are exhausting, so don’t be one, or do life with one! 1. Harry always has urgent needs Larry always has time for you 2. Harry has a sense of entitlement Larry takes nothing for granted and ha...

How do we take ground, when the ground is constantly, shaking, moving, unstable, unknown, uncharted?   RE CAST YOUR PERSONAL AND CORPORATE VISION Proverbs 29:18 MSG “If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals , they are most blessed.” Vision, when it is compelling   cast and when it is clear , keeps teams, families, co...

Leading Through Crisis? 7 Things To Remember:   Crisis is never a once off, never again, kind of event. Crisis takes many different shapes and forms - crisis strikes relationships, families, and today we are in a global health, financial and social crisis.  You are doing better than you think you are!  Be kind to yourself   You don’t need to have all the answers.   Isaiah...

How to lead through a crisis without burning out, breaking down, blowing up or taking a backward step!

Title: Life’s Groups Are Our Life Boat Notes: Churches, business, organisations always grow from the inside out...never from the outside in...   If I gathered 300 new guests to a Beyond Church location this weekend for one of our services….   would they all have a place to serve on a team next week? would they all have a Life Group to connect with next week ? Would there be enough famili...

ARE YOU READY FOR WAR? Jeremiah 18:2-6 NLT “Go down to the potter’s shop, and I will speak to you there.” So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel. But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over. Then the Lord gave me this message: “O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As...

Title: Building a Bringing Culture Notes: 2 Timothy 4:5 TPT “So be alert to all these things and overcome every form of evil. Carry in your heart the passion of your calling as a church planter and evangelist, and fulfill your ministry calling.” Church Planter = Evangelist in most other modern versions…and this word evangelist is ‘Bringer of Good News’ - it is actually isn’t found much outside of...

Everyone wants to feel known needed and led . For people to feel led they need leaders. Are we leading well?   Hebrews 13:7 NLT - The Hebrews 13 Leadership Test   “Remember your leaders who taught you the word of God. Think of all the good that has come from their lives, and follow the example of their faith.” Is your leadership memorable? Do you speak God’s word into the lives of those...

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Title: A Personal Spiritual Revival Notes: Genesis 26:12-25 NLT When Isaac planted his crops that year, he harvested a hundred times more grain than he planted, for the LORD blessed him. He became a very rich man, and his wealth continued to grow. He acquired so many flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, and servants that the Philistines became jealous of him. So the Philistin...

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