The Pulse

Do you want to win an Ultimate Event Ticket? 

This ticket is worth £50 and includes a day at Alton Towers and an evening concert!

Your challenge is to upload a photo, video, blog or music clip on the Pulse website that completes the following:  ‘if I were God I would...’  It could be comedy, it could be factual, it could be poetry...it could be anything! The best 5 entries will receive a £5 cinema voucher with the winner swooping the big prize!

Deadline for entries is Friday 29th October with the winner being announced the following month!  Entries can be up to 3 people in a group, but there will only be one ticket to the winning individual or group.

Please note the judges will be independent from the PSALMS ministers.  The Pulse web admin team has the right to remove any entry that is deemed unsuitable or inappropriate.

What is the gospel?! ~What did Jesus come to do/ say?  This is obviously a key questions as it determines everything Christians live (and even die) for!

I reckon it's about restoring relationships.  About restoring relationship with God's creation to how it should be, with each other and ultimately with God himself.

Someone said to me this weekt that when Jesus returned home to heaven after he was crucified he said to the Father 'the kiss hurt more than the nails'.  Wow!

Judas Iscariot was supposedly one of Jesus followers and friends yet betrayed him through a kiss for a real small amount of money.  The emotional pain of this kiss of betrayal would have hurt and cut deeply.

Maybe you're going through a rough patch.  Maybe your friends have let you down.  Maybe your parents are going through a break-up.  Emotional pain is so often worse than physical pain.

It is such relationships that Jesus wants to heal, mend and fix...today!

Make 2010 your year!

 

In the film ‘Amazing Grace’ William Wilberforce (an MP) asks William Pitt (current Prime Minister) how an earth they can take on the slave trade as they are so young!  Pitt replies by saying ‘we are too young to realise these things are impossible… so we’ll do them anyway’. 

 For me one of the greatest things about being a Christian is that I can start each day afresh putting my fears and failures behind me and dare to dream new hopes and vision about how I can change and transform God’s world!  I can allow myself to have faith in what is seemingly impossible and ‘do them anyway’. 

 Often people grow old and wise but lose the determination, courage and fight that people had in their youth.   As a youngster you have the responsibility and privilege of shaping our community, our nation and our world for the next generation.  What impact are you going to have upon the people you meet?  What legacy are you going to leave for your children and your children’s children?  What are you going to do in 2010 to make this world a better place?

Do checkout the website below for great happenings in Stonehouse.  We have already enjoyed some excellent family fun days and are set to see some more in 2010.  Follow the link below to see photos and news about exciting plans for Stonehouse.  All ages and backgrounds are welcome!

www.stonehouselive.org.uk