Some of you will be very pleased to know that I have found a better way to do my reviews on this blog. Instead of the rapidfire of posts reviewing books that may not interest you, I am going to see how it works to schedule one post for the end of each month containing … Continue reading »
I had been meaning to blog for a while about my experiment in learning Colossians. I just never got round to it really. I suppose it’s because the last few weeks have been fairly intense as I’ve engaged in the Other Experiment. The one where I try to start believing God’s Word about my drivenness. … Continue reading »
The church needs pastors who lead the church in repentance with love. The church needs pastoral leadership that refuses to take the shortcuts and has the courage to allow the church to suffer so that the whole church can be a parable of Jesus. David Hansen in The Art of Pastoring: Ministry without all the answers. … Continue reading »
I’m featured over at Provoketive this week, so if you read what’s below and want to keep reading, then just click on the link below! Photo credit You reminded me of Joyce Meyer, she said. I didn’t wince. I would have, once, though. I don’t agree with everything Joyce Meyer says. Some of it is great. … Continue reading »
We grow spiritually much more by doing it wrong than by doing it right. Richard Rohr in Falling Upward. Hmm, that fits well with a fear of failure…not! But I think this is going to be a helpful book for me personally, though I get the feeling that I may have a higher view of … Continue reading »
I wrote what follows a few months ago in response to a request for writing submissions to a specific prompt. My 800 words never saw the light of day in the end, for lots of reasons. Yet last weekend I remembered again that this piece of writing exists and so I thought that I might … Continue reading »
Let us consider names like [ ] or [ ] or [ ]. The cost for their caprices was lost empires. I never knew any of this famous trio of lost reputations, but I have known many others who could not keep safe the smaller moments of their lives. Reputation is not a … Continue reading »
I love how God’s timing works sometimes… Preaching at college recently turned out to be a great chance to practise speaking to congregations other than my local church, something I am going to be doing more of as a result of a new opportunity which has come my way. I have agreed to be part … Continue reading »
Well, it seems that the preach I inflicted on a congregation in the college chapel service this week went quite well in the end. I did spend the two hours before I preached in a bit of a fog, wandering round college too many times rather aimlessly as I tried to kill the time! At … Continue reading »
But a curious pattern is emerging in churches of multiethnic richness: it tends to come at the expense of multigenerational richness. The wealth of color has created a poverty of ages. Mark Buchanan in Your Church is Too Safe. I’d never made this kind of connection before, although it does seem to be true for us. … Continue reading »
