Random readings

David on what if everything stopped on good friday and you didn’t know easter sunday was coming
Brad on radical hospitality and rediscovering hospitality
Johnny points out that Brian McLaren is coming to the UK
A couple of interesting church posts from Mark Batterson on how he’s working out its multi-site model and also some insights into the [...]

Weighty matters

Chris, a fellow blogger, a member of our local church family and a friend who’s been giving helpful advice to me in recent weeks and months, posted a video about kettlebells, something that was totally new to me. Whilst his video was interesting, you have to check out this one, as the music just adds [...]

Jesus: Don’t be cross with me

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You weren’t even ready to go we thought
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What did we know
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You said you had to die and rise again and we thought you’d lost it
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You gave us the chance to kill you
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We took it
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We nailed you to a piece of wood and we beat you
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We stuck a spear in your side and we executed you [...]

Alternative resourcing

I’ve been reading Jamie’s blog and I’ll refer you to a couple of posts he wrote on Missional (called Bridging the Gap to Missional Understanding) and the Emerging Church (called The Emerging Church is Deviant: Emergence as a Phenomenon). Both of these posts pose interesting questions and if these are two topics of interest, I’d [...]

Jesus prays

Jesus said, in the last recorded prayer of His before He was executed by the army that had invaded the Middle East:
Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. - John 17v3
As you sent me into the world, I have sent them [...]

Re:store

The component of the dream of the business incubator, and the fund, that excites me most, is the one that really drives the purpose, the one that provides the ethos behind it. The concept of using business to be part of the restoration of all things is one I have set out before, using business as [...]

Freedom this time? The Dalits.

Our church family has been starting to help with fighting the injustice of the Dalit people in India. If you don’t know their story I’d refer you to the Dalit entry on Wikipedia or to the Dalit Freedom Network site. It’s quite horrendous, but since Joseph d’Souza spoke at MBC, I’ve been dying to actually DO [...]

Ca va?

I’ll be in the south of France until the weekend so no more blogging!. I’ll be attending this, and the weather will be like this. Although there will be plenty of these, I’ll not be staying on one!
Whilst I’m away I’ll be thinking about being an entrepreneur - as regular readers, I’d value your insights [...]

A new perspective

 Imagine if: we had this perspective of Jesus and we chose to not judge, confident that He who can assess perfectly will be the true assessor at some point in the future, and our role is to save. Imagine what it would look like for the church, for you, to be engaged in this mission. [...]

Gigantic sporting triumph in Scotland

An historic victory happened today. A big team was “whupped” by a not so big team. They came calling and went crawling. Read all about Queen of the South (the only team mentioned in the bible) destroying Dundee to reach the semi-final of the Scottish Cup for the first time in 58 years. My hometown [...]