There has been plenty of dialogue of varying levels going around on the internet and in-person conversations about leadership, about the dangers of power those in leadership have, the battles those in leaders are up against from the congregations. Having been on the receiving end of misused leadership, having been in leadership and got thingsContinue reading “Is the gospel enough?”
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Remembering
Today I had the sad news that Don Lewis, one of my professors at Regent College, where both Roz and I did our Masters, had died. I only had him as my teacher for one course, but it was a wonderful course – the Christian Pastor in Historical Perspective or some similar title. This wasn’tContinue reading “Remembering”
100 Years: Humble Listening
Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Stott. I am not simply blogging about that because I happen to work for one of the organisations which he founded. Rather I thought it was worth paying a personal tribute to someone whose writings have been a formative influence on my own theology andContinue reading “100 Years: Humble Listening”
He is Risen Indeed! Hallelujah!
Happy Easter! I’ve posted this before – but I couldn’t not post this again, because this year Easter day is also April 4th. It would be wonderful to think that this day someone would enter into a full assurance of salvation and have the same impact as Charles Simeon an Anglican Evangelical minister in CambridgeContinue reading “He is Risen Indeed! Hallelujah!”
Lamentations: The darkness of judgement
Lamentations is not an easy book to keep on reading, and in some ways I have found chapter 2 harder than chapter 1. For chapter 2 forces us to confront the reality that Jerusalem’s pain at this point in her history was in large part the consequence of her own sinful and foolish choices. JerusalemContinue reading “Lamentations: The darkness of judgement”
And then you
Walter Brueggemann Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth We arrange our lives as best we can, To keep your holiness at by, With our pieties, Our doctrines, Our liturgies, Our moralities, Our secret ideologies, Safe, virtuous, settled. And then you – You and your dreams, You andContinue reading “And then you”
What is this all about?
I’ve been doing some work on Ecclesiastes recently, and had one of those moments of seeing more clearly how to explain our Joshua’s Tree vision when reading these words in Ecclesiastes 5, and some commentary on them. 5 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather thanContinue reading “What is this all about?”
Joshua's Tree Rooted 