Traditionally if you want to mobilise the church, you encourage people to get off the stands and get onto the field – to stop being spectators and start becoming participants of the greatest game in history – the rise of God’s Church in the 21st Century.
Yet, there’s a little place that’s rarely talked about, rarely noticed and rarely appreciated by either players or spectators – it’s called THE BENCH.
There is a well known, but little spoken of, fact in Church life that sound guys often turn bitter. They may not backslide, but they go bitter and often get resentful, and end up leaving the sound team with more than one chip on their black-tee-shirt-clad shoulder. It’s one of those things that happens on a pretty regular basis in many churches across the country and something we at Hope City Church are on the way to solving.
This fantastic e-book is from the personal journey of Dave Gilpin, revealing that what the world might see as a deficiency may actually be your greatest asset!
The Mind Map Small Group Studies are designed to be used in a small group setting. We’ve designed each Small Group meeting to begin with a 10-minute DVD episode followed by a 35-minute study. Each episode looks at one aspect of the renewing of the Mind from Romans 12:2, and gives great practical help in lining up the commitments of the Mind with the convictions of the spirit.
Dave Gilpin has discovered that when he’s going through troubled times the one set of footprints in the sand the ‘one set of footprints’ in the sand are not the foot prints of Jesus but his own size 10’s. Someone’s telling porkies! God wants to create strong champions not needy children. Since then Dave has discovered other sacred cows grazing in the fields of our faith.
TheMindMap.tv website is LIVE! It is full of videos, ebooks, resources, Mindmap Tasters, The Mind Map Diaries, articles, podcasts and plenty more! Experiencing the full panorama of God’s ‘good, pleasing and perfect will’ requires not only faith to believe, but a change in the thinking process. The Mindmap Series has been developed to explain the process of the ‘renewing of the mind’ and to give people the tools to help them change the skyline of their thoughts and habits so as to experience more of God’s plans and purposes for their lives.
Rage Against Beige is a collection of well known poems, songs, sayings and quotes which have been slightly altered to aide Dave Gilpin to voice his displeasure for the colour beige! The book was bought by the Ikea British head office in 2007 for a marketing campaign. It’s a bit of fun but should provoke readers to make sure that they are adding splashes of colour to all they do.
Welcome to Dave Gilpin’s Tube Map of the Soul. Between the Mind and the Heart lies the Soul – a mass of emotion created by both the decisions and imprints of our past, as well as our unique ‘personality led’ way of seeing the world around us. As emotions are stirred, they trigger other emotions that often form long emotional trains within the Soul.
Behind everything you see is something you don’t see. This book is designed to outline nuggets of wisdom that often remain invisible behind thriving churches and ministries. Mixed with a touch of humour, this book looks at Top 10’s of everything to do with Christian Leadership. It gives advise on many subjects that may prove to be invaluable to established and up and coming leaders.
Who said “you can’t have your cake and eat it too'”? Who told us to to not count your chickens before they hatch”? Who said “beggars can’t be choosers”? The thinking in our world is seen in the spirit behind its most popular sayings.
A personal letter from Dave Gilpin to 2009! Written at the start of 2010, he’s determined to live in the present – not the past. God’s ‘good perfect and pleasing will’ for this year, not according to last year’s experiences but God’s fresh grace and provision. Here goes…!
