Dave Gilpin’s latest tongue ‘n cheek video. Dave meets his team as he prepares for an upcoming men’s event. Will his team manage to make Dave more a “man’s man”? Check it out and see!

Is it possible to be far away from God? When someone is running away from God – how far can they get – a mile? a marathon? a million miles? Dave Gilpin, Senior Pastor of Hope City Church looks at the problem and solves it – thanks to some help from the Bible! It’s a Hope City video treat! Enjoy.

Around the turn of the last century, an evangelist called Gypsy Smith created a storm in both Britain and America, seeing thousands of people swept into the hands of God. Upon seeing the crowds filling the aisles for salvation, he would place his hand into the pocket of his jacket and grasp the peg.

Not everything we’re actually ‘believing God for’ eventuates. People say that God is an 11th hour God in that He comes through just in the nick of time. That’s often true, but sometimes He comes through at 2.45pm the next day (too late for the success of plan A but obviously committed to the success of plan B). Sometimes, however, it’s too late in every respect for God to come through … either the person’s died or irreversible decisions had to be made in the absence of the obvious intervention of God.

I admit it – at times I exhibit juvenile behaviour! Christmas has always been a favourite time of mine to relax, step out of the box and do some really silly things. As a minister, you have to be pretty grown up and pretty responsible most of the time, so on Christmas day, for many a year at around 2.30 in the afternoon, myself and my former associate pastor used to start giggling like two naughty school boys as we organised ourselves to make silly calls to members of the congregations who could possibly take a joke!