Last Friday was a good day for my book problem: I finished another! I’ve blogged a fair bit about Jesus Wept and this is the last post I plan to write on the thoughts in this provocative book. Listen to this quotation which the authors of Jesus Wept take from Nouwen’s In The Name of Jesus: Formation in the … Continue reading »
I have picked up a new book in recent days. It is Beeley’s Leading God’s People. Listen to this excerpt: what ultimately moves people into a deeper life in Christ is not personal charm, social connections, or managerial expertise, no matter how useful they may seem in the short term. Instead it is the real and … Continue reading »
Sometimes it takes years to write a blog post. This is one of those. And I suspect, irritatingly, that it is not even going to be that good! But I have waited long enough to write, long enough to hope to do justice to this concept. And now I need just to write, to explore … Continue reading »
As I contemplate the trajectory of culture, my heart feels heavy. I don’t know whether that should ever be the case, given the God whom we serve, but I feel weighed down by the sheer size of the task. Our vision at LifeGiving to become an outward-reaching community of disciples is perhaps more counter-cultural than … Continue reading »
Coffee in hand, milk frothed just so, and a creme egg in the other. It may be weeks until Easter but who cares about minor details like that? Today has been another good day…gym, a cafe lunch, conversations and messaging interchanges with precious people. Oh yes, and a TED video! Did you know that only … Continue reading »
There’s been little reading for pleasure lately. It’s only when I come to blog about my readings on life and leadership that I realise how bad that situation has become! Instead I have been reading for research, I have been reading for lectures on a Biblical Perspectives course I’m due to start teaching next month … Continue reading »
Is this always his way, broken glory? Scraps of it, here and there, found by those who are scouring the landscape for the echoes of him, the murmurings of a creation being renewed by him. Scraps of it, but less than was dreamed, was prophesied. A glory whispered long ago, yet somehow reality less than this. … Continue reading »
Jesus said, ‘I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it’. He also said, ‘You, go and make disciples, baptising them and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded’. I’ve been thinking a lot about these two statements lately. Mostly because I have a tendency to think … Continue reading »
Listen to Brennan Manning in The Furious Longing of God… How is it then that we’ve come to imagine that Christianity consists primarily in what we do for God? How has this come to be the good news of Jesus? Is the kingdom that He proclaimed to be nothing more than a community of men and women … Continue reading »
…we become captured by the impression that technology makes place irrelevant. Once we buy into this language of networks and third spaces, we are essentially buying into a conception of radical individualism in which we create, manage, and control spaces and time and where we intentionally attract (or avoid) particular kinds of people at the … Continue reading »
