Month: May 2014
Well, of course you might. That goes without saying. The question is, are you likely to? And, do the risks of changing what you’re doing outweigh the risks of staying where you are, or even moving in the opposite direction? And, just how far would you have to go for that to happen? If you
One of the questions I ask myself regularly each week, is how does this coming Sunday move ‘The Project’ on? If that sounds a bit ‘management speak’, let me explain. In the biggest of pictures, ‘The Project’ is to adore God as his people, and to do so in a way that encourages us to
Yesterday I had the same experience, twice, in different settings. With a bible open in front of me, I looked at a passage I thought I knew really well, and realised that there was a sequence of words (that is, a verse) that I had hardly registered but now hit me between the eyes. I
I broke one of my cardinal rules last week, and my fellow team members paid the price for me. I apologised, but the irony is that the rule is one I bang on about all the time. When you plan something well, there’s a list of ‘next actions’ that need to be done, and by
There are some common elements in faithful Christian ministry that will be true and transferable across the world. These will be as true in a small house church as a multisite megachurch. There a couple that it’s almost a cliché to list them But they’re essential. Hard work. Gospel work is a joy, a privilege
I met someone the other day who plays in the orchestra for the Lion King, the big Disney musical. I’ve seen it, of course, and it’s a great show – much better than the cartoon, and with many moments of genuine theatrical beauty for the adults, as well as humour for the kids. And that
Last week was one of those ho-hum weeks in the life of a sermon, where there’s only one prayer to pray, and I prayed it with increasing urgency. I did everything I should have done: sentence flow diagram (both Greek and English), translation comparisons, close observations, lots of observations, and the commentaries consulted. I
