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Survive the Summer - without backsliding
Summer holidays presents many challenges; The break of routine, children who need to be usefully occupied, brains that require focusing etc I find that my thinking needs to be kept in order when I have a significant break in routine. This is a short document I have used for the last few years, seeking to [...]
TOAM 08 | part 2
The badge holders have been handed in, the glossy magazines lie discarded and the 5000 delegates have scattered, once again, to the ‘ends of the earth’. So what is the lasting effect of another Together on a Mission conference?
I have enough history to remember Downs Bible week with, to my mind, impressive clarity. It was [...]
TOAM 08
Last year I was able to track through the Newfrontiers ‘Together on a Mission’ conference and give daily updates. This year I thought I’d do an ‘after conference summary’. I often find that in the personal, incidental, conversations in cafes and corridors and minutes caught between sessions God is powerfully moving.
For me the over-riding sense of what God was [...]
we’ve never had it so good
Continuing our short, impromptu series focused around the Zimbabwean elections I thought it might be timely to consider our own financial blessings, as a nation. While this clearly flies in the face of an economic downturn the blessings we experience are no less dramatic.
We are fickle creatures relying on a pretty finely tuned environment before [...]
when good men do nothing
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)
This is a reflection of a biblical truth
Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.
James 4 : 7
It is beyond credibility that any thinking person, let alone politician, genuinely believes that Robert [...]
when is it right to be angry?
5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,
only a day for a man to humble himself?
Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed
and for lying on sackcloth and ashes?
Is that what you call a fast,
a day acceptable to the LORD ?
6 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to [...]
leadership challenges | part 3
One of the primary jobs of a leader is to encourage, literally to bring courage to.
We can often feel that our primary role is to manage the church or to preach the word or administration the finances. All good and worthy!
6 “Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land [...]
The Gospel is the Power of God
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
Romans 1 : 16
Easter has come and gone again, and so soon this year!
The resurrection of Jesus is far too amazing and it’s consequences too far reaching [...]
So…Is It Grace Or Righteousness?
Preaching through Colossians, as with most of Paul’s letters, we are faced with a glorious explanation of the gospel. This has been a great privilege and also huge fun.
Possibly foolishly I suggested if there were questions that arose from our preaching people should raise them. We need to encourage or people to engage personally with [...]
