Welcome to our blog, here is a place where a number of different contributors share some thoughts, ideas and questions. We have a few categories around church, leadership, creativity and ministries. Take a look, feel free to share and get in touch – we would love to hear from you.
LATEST POSTS
Central Command
We’ve begun to talk recently about how we make (and keep) Jesus truly central in our lives. We’ve started to explore the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which we tend to cling to control,
Striving to Face Forwards
Almost daily my phone prompts me to review my photos from ‘this day x years ago’. For me, the opportunity to recall moments from the past feels intensely bittersweet, and will often provoke a
Just In Time – Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog I argued that to view God as ‘outside of time’, in the way we usually imagine, effectively reduces God to the role of passive spectator, merely observing events
Just In Time – Part 1
It’s time we talked about time; about how we understand the past, the present and the future. And fundamentally, how we believe that God perceives these. Because most Christians have been taught, or have
Distinguishing Pressure
Mk 3:20-22 Now Jesus went home, and a crowd gathered so that they were not able to eat. When his family heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.” The
Struggling with Glory
I suspect ‘Glory’ is one of those words that christians tend to use without having much idea of what it actually means. Sometimes an expletive and sometimes an acclamation, neither use provides us with
Welcome to our blog, here is a place where a number of different contributors share some thoughts, ideas and questions. We have a few categories around church, leadership, creativity and ministries. Take a look, feel free to share and get in touch – we would love to hear from you.
LATEST POSTS
Signs & Consequences
“My time has not yet come.” The response of Jesus to
No Body? Rethinking the ascension
“You didn’t want sacrifices and offerings; instead, you’ve given me a
What’s the trouble?
‘Troubled’ is a word that’s been occupying my mind, and sometimes
An Upper Room
It seems a curious symmetry. Almost. Did Jesus have both his first and his last meal in an ‘upper room’? It seems that in Luke’s account of the nativity the word that has sometimes
Now and Then
Now and Then “Don’t put off until tomorrow what is meant for today.” Martha’s grieving response to Jesus’ reassurance, that her brother would rise again, was to affirm her conviction that he would indeed
The Church I Grew Up In
Tasha Cobbs Leonard recently released a song called ‘the church I grew up in’ and it has completely captivated me. There’s a couple of lines that say: We didn't have much But Jesus loved