To be a man after God's own heart. Then to lead, labour, inspire and encourage others to be the same
Here’s a nagging question I have. Has the Western Church, the evangelical-reformed bubble of it anyway, made Church leadership a position held only by the educated elite? It’s not just the evangelical-reformed group either, to become a priest in the Church of England requires a degree, and if not in theology will need further training.…
There we go, there’s a nice, big, blocky, pixilated photo for you all to fix your eyes upon. I’m sure we’ll all enjoy zooming in and out of that with the tiny smartphone screens. Thanks for stopping by. I wanted to share the contents of a chapter I read today from Mike Breen’s book: Building…
One of the significant activities God has been leading me into over the last 5 months is the process of ‘stepping out of ministry’. This has been an interesting time and I’ve learnt a lot. I wanted to share a bit of that journey and what it’s all been like. Since October 2017, I have…
We all have agendas, some of them are big and important, some a small and silly. We set ourselves an agenda each week when we go shopping. We look at our watches, outside the doors of aldi, and we see if we can make it round the shop, past the checkouts and back out the…
Time to address a problem that I’ve come up against a couple of times. Wax on, wax off. Since as long as I can really remember, probably since secondary school, I’ve waxed my hair. Even when I had longish hair – looking like a mullet – I’d always spike up or across my fringe. Either…
I just wanted to spend a few posts sharing some of my course writings for FFM, they’re from the Old Testament module, and this term we’re looking at the prophets and history books. What are the causes of God’s judgement in Isaiah and what does this reveal about God’s heart? I have divided the causes…
Meta-blog intro: I’m beginning to see a real danger in this “series” approach. The danger being that, what you start you need to finish. So if you start a series: “Series (1): X and y, and z”. You at least need to follow up with a “Series (2): X^2 and Y/Z” and to be honest…
Just to record some of my thought around the questions given at the end. There’s only two questions, but their like 2 really long questions, made up of lots of questions. For copyright reasons, I’m rephrasing and dividing the 2 big Qs into several smaller ones. a. Do I think I’d pay more attention to…
