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Find Me In The River

The final gig in God’s Great Dance Floor UK Tour kicked off last night in Edinburgh. It was beautiful, it was memorable, it was powerful, it was intimate and probably, for that reason, the best gig I’ve ever been to. Here’s a more intimate moment.

Into the Barn to Burn (sermon)

Plato’s problem is that there isn’t enough stimuli in the world around us to reinforce the knowledge-based convictions we have in our heads; we don’t experience what we know. But Heraclitus would have said 100 years before that it doesn’t matter because everything is changing constantly anyway – you can’t step into the same river…

God’s Green Room Introduction: Habitat Loss

INTRODUCTION – Habitat Loss – The reddy-brown Orangutan and her little baby drifted through the air, suspended in a metal cage. Their beautiful faces flecked with warm, bright sunlight through small air-holes as they swung together in the sky beneath the helicopter that carried them like a tired pendulum. The great apes were en-route toContinue reading “God’s Green Room Introduction: Habitat Loss”

Fight as Though For Yourself

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. – Proverbs 17:17 – The bible says this is what friends do and that this is what brothers are born for. Q) Is this your experience? A) Probably not…at least, probably not entirely. It’s more likely that you have been hurt byContinue reading “Fight as Though For Yourself”

What if…

Dream & Interpretation: Two Lions

I had a dream a few nights ago that I recognised intuitively was Jesus speaking to me while I slept. There were two scenes in the dream that relate to my own personal life but, I believe, also to a generation of young people:

Ancient Missional Adrenaline

KFC Church When I read the book of Acts, I really want to be a believer, a lover, a follower of Christ. I’m glad to be. I’m proud to be. When I go to church, I often feel like there’s something very important missing and I can be left feeling like I do when IContinue reading “Ancient Missional Adrenaline”

Frozen Scotland

Some snaps from this winter’s freezing temperatures:

To the Local (Edinburgh Castle)

We’re so chuffed to be living here. God is good!

Russell Brand’s ‘Manifestations of the Infinite’

It’s been another harrowing week on planet earth. The terrible atrocities in Paris and Nigeria (and elsewhere not covered by the media) have again functioned as the exclamation mark for the statement of our times – of threat, fear, violence and deceit – churned out from terrorist groups all around the world: “we will strikeContinue reading “Russell Brand’s ‘Manifestations of the Infinite’”