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The Royal Wedding Sermon: 5 lightweight comebacks for the counterfeit gospel

Redeeming Radicalisation

This short (rough) video from just last year reflects one of the most important junctures of my 38-year discipleship in following Chirst. It’s a principle that I believe will be increasingly prevalanet in the Church over the next 5-10 years (please share)

Paul Scanlon & Carl Lentz: world-class leadership or social media cowardice?

Millstone-lobbing Goats

Dear Millstone-lobbing Goats,

Are You Ready?

We feel like it’s a good thing to honestly review Christian lifestyle. It shouldn’t be an offence to us to do that or to suggest that others do as well.

The Miracle of Soft-Heartedness: Escaping Our Hate

There isn’t a greater healing possible than that of the human heart. Not a healing from angina, leaky valve problems, left ventricular hypertrophy or some other kind of disease, but healing from the unbelieving, human spirit condition of hard-heartedness, common to us all.

Ready: Living Full in a Bloated World

The Need For Learning The early church exploded from a small group of misfit disciples into the most dynamic and cohesive movement within the Roman empire in just three hundred years. They were the new kids on the block and they were taking over the place. One early critic was claiming that they had ‘turnedContinue reading “Ready: Living Full in a Bloated World”

Ready: Living Alert in a Sleepy World

Are we asleep to this gospel? Am I really living as if this is true – that Jesus is coming back – maybe later today – to punish rebels and reward his waiting bride? Have we replaced the bracing realities of the gospel with “evenings without number obliterated by television, evenings neither of entertainment nor of education, but of narcotised defence against time” (Neuhaus, Freedom for Ministry, p. 227)?

Into the Pray – Joy

Debut I was stood in a church worshipping last week when something happened that I have never seen before in more than 36 years of being in church.

Into the Pray – Marriage

If you’ve read the other 5 posts in this blog series, you’ll know that it’s a series that’s been born out of a deep distress with how a lot of church (fundamentally) functions today compared with how we see the Church (fundamentally) functioning in the Bible. It is also a blog series that’s been bornContinue reading “Into the Pray – Marriage”