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Victory Outreach Manchester Forum http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/ This is an XML content feed of; Victory Outreach Manchester Forum : Last 10 Posts Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:08:09 +0000 Sun, 30 May 2010 08:51:35 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.60 30 forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/RSS_topic_feed.asp Victory Outreach Manchester Forum http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_images/header.jpg http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/ General Discussion : Sunday School http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=22&PID=159#159 Author: MWX02
Subject: Sunday School
Posted: 30 May 2010 at 8:51am

It is about being honest. Not trying to be their friend or seen as cool or popular. Half the people who had some influence in my life were those that challenged my way of thinking and behaviour who were able to say "NO".

We should only be saying "NO" for the protection of the child and not to convenience ourselves. Our Children should be excelling instead of being surpressed.

]]> Sun, 30 May 2010 08:51:35 +0000 http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=22&PID=159#159 Please Introduce Yourself : A bit about me http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=63&PID=158#158 Author: anth75
Subject: A bit about me
Posted: 28 Apr 2010 at 1:31pm

Hi, my name is Anthony. I attend VO Manchester along with my wife and 3 young children.

I was brought up in the Salvation Army. My parents have been members of the Salvation Army all their lives. I was a member of the Salvation Army until 2000 when I left in order to start the new millenium with a fresh start. I somehow managed to attend hundreds of Salvation Army services without ever getting saved. I think I did a lot of day dreaming.

While I was at the Salvation Army during my teens and early tweenties I suffered some rejection from my peer group and that left me upset and angry that so called Christians could treat people in this way. At the time I didn't realise that they were just kids (just like myself) and that they weren't really representing Christianity at all. But I was attending Church for the fellowship with friends rather than to worship God so I allowed myself to get hurt. In the end I decided I didn't want anything to do with Christianity so I stopped going to church.

I also had an issue with masturbation from my teenage years. It was a habit that I could not crack even though I tried many times. I would vow never to let it happen again but the urge was always too strong so I would end up in the same place again, and end up feeling guilty again.

It was a two year period when I didn't attend church at all. During this period I think that God healed my heart of all of the rejection that I had endured in the past. I actually felt happier away from church.

Then at the end of 2001 I was in my room one evening feeling nauseas and to take my mind off it I picked up a bible. I don't know what I read or why I picked it up but at that moment I knew that I was going to church that sunday (later I found out that I had been prayer for at a Salvation Army church retreat shortly beforehand). I turned up at the Salvation Army that sunday morning. If anybody had said anything to me about my abscence over the previous 2 years I planned to bite his/her head off. Of course nobody said anything of the kind.

Then over the next couple of weeks I watched a lot of the God channel in secret while my parents were out. I was off work for a long christmas break. I also read Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis and another book called The Case Against Christ during this holiday and that gave me the logical argument that I needed in order to be able to take a step of faith. I remember praying the sinners prayer during that holiday while watching one of the God channel programs. In fact I remember praying it a number of times (just to make sure hehehehe) over those few days.

At some point during this holiday my mastrubation habit stopped. Basically the urge just went away. I consider it to be a miracle that God worked in my life, and this was happened shortly before I got saved. If anybody ever questions me about my faith then I can say with certainty that I know that I could not have delivered myself from that masturbation adiction. It could only have been God

Then I got up in church in a service and declared that I had been saved. I did this because I was mindfull of the text in Romans where it says that you need to confess Christ with your mouth, as well as believe in your heart in order to be saved.

I remained at the Salvation Army until I got married, and moved to Manchester. The Salvation Army do not practice baptism but I wanted to be baptised. Once I was married we attended Church of God of Prophecy for a while and that is where I got baptised.

Then a couple of years later Nicola and I chose to move to Victory Outreach and that is where we are now.

I still make plenty of mistakes on a day to day basis but thankfully and fortunately God is kind and patient. There is a famous quote that says something like 'I may not be where I need to be, but thank God that I am not where I used to be". I think that describes me pretty well. I am trying and God is working. Above all I know that God is good and that he loves me. I am learning to trust him in all things.

I travel to work by train each day so I use that as my opportunity to read the scriptures. I am a slow reader so it takes me a while. At the moment I am working my way forward through the bible book by book. I have got as far as Psalm 102.

My wife and I have also started having devotions together early each morning where we pray together and do a reading together. This is making a big difference in our individual lives and in our marriage and our household.

I have rambled on too long now so I'd better get back to work.

God bless

Anthony

]]> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:31:17 +0000 http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=63&PID=158#158 General Discussion : Where is everyone ???? http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=62&PID=157#157 Author: atadudu
Subject: Where is everyone ????
Posted: 12 Apr 2010 at 9:52am

Originally posted by atadudu

I'm here Reading believing that more will come to make this forum more lively than ever......

]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:52:31 +0000 http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=62&PID=157#157 General Discussion : Where is everyone ???? http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=62&PID=156#156 Author: atadudu
Subject: Where is everyone ????
Posted: 12 Apr 2010 at 9:51am

I'm here Reading believing that more will come to make this forum more lively than ever......

Edited by atadudu - 12 Apr 2010 at 9:53am]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:51:32 +0000 http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=62&PID=156#156 General Discussion : Where is everyone ???? http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=62&PID=155#155 Author: anth75
Subject: Where is everyone ????
Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 1:13pm

Why is this web site so quiet? Why has nobody, other than me, posted anything in the forum in months?

Why am I asking this question at all given that nobody seems to be here to read it?

]]> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:13:41 +0000 http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=62&PID=155#155 General Discussion : XMAS http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=59&PID=154#154 Author: anth75
Subject: XMAS
Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 1:01pm

Well, are we really doing God a favour by doing anything? I don't think so.

I think celebrating X-mas has some positives. It means that most of us get some much needed time off work during the winter so that we can re-charge our batteries. And given that we get bank holidays off anyway (most of us) it means that it doesn't take many days out of our holiday allowances to take say 2 weeks off work.

It is also a good opportunity for families to get together and spend time together which has got to be a good thing.

And I like the excitement that it produces in the children. There is nothing like seeing the looks on your children's faces as they open their presents on christmas day.

At the end of the day I think Christmas is what you make it in your own heart. I don't really care if it has pagan origins. To me it isn't pagan. Its about Jesus' birth. And even if people don't believe the nativity story, the majority are aware of it, while perhaps they would not be if it wasn't for the fact that they get a mid winter pagan holiday.

]]> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:01:01 +0000 http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=59&PID=154#154 General Discussion : Where do we go after we die??? http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=56&PID=153#153 Author: anth75
Subject: Where do we go after we die???
Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 12:50pm

There does seem to be schools of thought on this as far as I can see.

One school seem to believe that there will be a rapture, while the other group believe that everyone who is alive at the time will go through the tribulation. And both groups back up their position with scripture so its hard to know who is right.

The Left Behind book series is an interesting read which takes the rapture view. It is series of fiction books that shows a possible way in which the end times could play out, and attempts to highlight, explain and apply biblical prophecy to the plot along the way.

]]> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:50:34 +0000 http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=56&PID=153#153 General Discussion : Sunday School http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=22&PID=152#152 Author: anth75
Subject: Sunday School
Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 12:39pm

Yes, if it is done well. No, if it isn't.

I think that a good sunday school teacher can do a lot of good, but a bad sunday school teacher can do a lot of harm. And I think that is even more true when it comes to the teenagers group.

]]> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:39:31 +0000 http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=22&PID=152#152 General Discussion : Do Christian guys need a wardrobe makeover? http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=39&PID=151#151 Author: anth75
Subject: Do Christian guys need a wardrobe makeover?
Posted: 07 Apr 2010 at 1:20pm

I don't know much about male dress to be honest but I do have an issue with how women dress in today's society.

It is definately not helpfull to men when women dress up revealingly, and you see that in the church just as in the world (albiet to a lesser degree).

]]> Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:20:48 +0000 http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=39&PID=151#151 General Discussion : Do U think negative music has an Influence http://forum.victoryoutreachmanchester.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=20&PID=150#150 Author: anth75
Subject: Do U think negative music has an Influence
Posted: 07 Apr 2010 at 1:16pm

Negative music definately has an influence and the worse thing is that more often than not you don't even know that you are being influenced. I end up humming tunes that I didn't even know that I know. Likewise positive music definately has an influence.

Music alters a person's mood never mind their thoughts and opinions. It seem to implants thought in your head without them needing to be first filtered by your brain.

Have you noticed that people get away with singing things that they would never get away with speaking?

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