Blog
Category = ‘church’
Jan 2024
19
Repentance?
Were Jesus and the Apostles right or wrong to call the proper response to the gospel ‘repentance?
Nov 2022
23
How should Christians respond to the World Cup in Qatar?
There is no easy answer to watching or boycotting the World Cup in Qatar – because in this case I don’t think there is a right answer.
May 2022
30
Looking ahead
This was the pattern of Jesus’ ministry and I believe it should be the pattern of what we do, too: making, growing, sending disciples of Jesus.
Jun 2020
27
On behalf of
These people, this church - they are not mine, they are God’s.
Aug 2019
15
‘What in God’s name is happening in Christianity?’
‘We now learn who God is from singing praise songs rather than the teachings of the Word’
Mar 2019
12
‘Bring them here to me’
Jesus says, ‘My job is the feeding; your job is the bringing.’
Sep 2018
29
Whoever shouts loudest...
Do we know how to listen well? Do we know how to listen to God, and to those around us?
Apr 2018
3
Let the dead bury their own dead
How easy it is to let the cares and concerns of this world crowd out our faith.
May 2017
10
The most important word
In Numbers 9, the Israelites are pressing Moses for an answer on a difficult question regarding the law. They are commanded to keep the Passover, but that law clashes with the law concerned uncleanness after touching a corpse. What should they do?
Mar 2016
25
When I Survey
Mum sent me this wonderful video yesterday, and I played it during communion at our Maundy Supper last night. It is a beautiful piano arrangement of the old hymn When I Survey, while a painting of the words is slowly revealed.