This year’s New Attitude conference took place over the bank holiday weekend, and it seems it was a memorable and life-transforming time. 

Here’s a brief report from on the conference together with a link to the FREE audio messages from the conference, and links to some of the “live-bloggers” who provide their own unique summary of events! 

“At the 2007 New Attitude conference, almost 3,000 singles and young married couples spent four days studying biblical discernment and its affect on every area of life.

In a culture content with the cloudy and the unclear, Scripture calls us to distinguish good from evil through the constant practice of discernment.

These conference messages are a journey from doctrine to application in a multitude of areas—heart and life, movies and music, career and culture and more—all in light of God’s Word.

Because in order to believe and live truth, we must know what we believe and how we should live. Humble orthodoxy takes discernment. “

Message titles and speakers:

Discernment (Joshua Harris)
Discern Your Doctrine (Mark Dever)
Discern Your Culture (Albert Mohler)
Discern Your Heart (C.J. Mahaney)
Discern the Graymatters (Eric Simmons)
Discern What Pleases God: Himself (John Piper)
Discern What Pleases God: Personal Obedience (John Piper)
Discern How to Apply (C.J. Mahaney)

Click here to go download message audio.

For all the live-blogging links and pictures click here.

Here’s the Take It Home sheet from this Sunday’s message The Unclean Are Cleansed. 

The audio for the message is available to download from here.

Alternatively, you can get the sermon audio via our iTunes podcast.

Here’s a bunch of useful info for your consideration… 

1. The bulletin from Sunday 27th May is now available to download from here.

2. The most recent serving rota (covering April-July 2007) is available to download from here.

Sorry folks but our first Caregroup Book Club evenings scheduled for this coming week are having to be postponed because we can’t get hold of the books!!!

The book distributor assures us they should be here early June, so we are pushing the reading back to the following dates:

Bowley Group 26th June 2007

Smith Group 28th June 2007.

 Still the same 2 chapter assignment!

After being rained off last Bank Holiday Monday, we are planning another attempt at a church BIG Day Out.

So this coming Bank Holiday Monday, the 28th May, we are planning on heading off to Blaise Castle for a picnic lunch and afternoon of fun and fellowship.

So if you are around that day, we plan on meeting at 11am at Blaise Castle (the top car park near the cafe/kids play area).  Bring lunch and come ready for some games and chat!

Hope to see you there!  (And hope that the weather is good!)

This is the book I mentioned in yesterday’s sermon:

“Twelve Ordinary Men” by John MacArthur.

This book brings you face to face with each of the disciples Jesus called to share in his mission of “catching men alive” and take the message of the gospel to the world.

It’s a thoroughly enjoyable and challenging read as he draws out insights and calls attention to the lives and characteristics of the men who made up Jesus’ inner circle.

Here’s the quote from the inside cover, that I used in the sermon:

“If you were going to recruit a team to alter the course of history, how would you begin? Jesus began by a lake. “Follow me”, the master told them. And they did. Thus began His uncommon mission with 12 most common individuals: men who became Christ’s very first disciples.

Have you ever considered who Jesus didn’t choose for his inner circle? He didn’t select a rabbi. He didn’t recruit scholars. He didn’t look within the religious establishment to build his team. Any of these would have given him an inside track with those in power. Instead, he assembled a ragtag bunch of folks with unimpressive résumés.

But that was all part of the plan. Jesus wasn’t looking for religious superiority or extraordinary talent. Quite the opposite. Jesus wanted ordinary people – people with hopes and dreams of their own, but people who were willing to leave their lives behind to follow the Saviour.”

The book is available from Amazon.