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
Being Jesus Centred
We have begun to explore what it means to be ‘Jesus-centred’.
Choosing what not to pray
“Simon, Simon, pay attention! Satan has demanded to have you all, to
Men’s Weekend Away 2023
This weekend I found myself at my first men’s weekend away
Signs & Consequences
“My time has not yet come.” The response of Jesus to his mother’s request to get involved in the ‘wine dilemma’ at the wedding (Jn 2) has always seemed odd to me. Did he
No Body? Rethinking the ascension
“You didn’t want sacrifices and offerings; instead, you’ve given me a body.” Heb 10:5 The writer of Hebrews takes this quotation (apparently from the Old Testament, though no one seems quite sure), and applies
What’s the trouble?
‘Troubled’ is a word that’s been occupying my mind, and sometimes my emotions, over recent weeks. I reassure myself that Jesus knew what it was to be troubled, although not necessarily for the same