I’m going to conduct an experiment with Chat GPT, and I’d love you to join in.
Author: Chris Green
There’s always something a bit irritating about the eternal optimist, isn’t there? The one with the permanent smile, the cheerful chappie, the Teflon grin. The person without a hint of the downbeat. And perhaps you share the wider suspicion that behind it lies ‘Positive thinking’. Norman Vincent Peale’s famous and popular book, The Power of
The problem I had with the school Assembly was that I hadn’t built a machine to make Assemblies. I was starting from scratch each time, and I was wasting time, energy and focus in the process.
We pastors are in the encouragement business. The cheering-up and cheering-on business.
Prepping to speak at this. What are the opportunities, weaknesses, blessings and questions around using AI in our ministries? Free online event. https://www.affinity.org.uk/events/ai-and-christian-ministry-exploring-the-opportunities-and-risks-in-using-ai-in-ministry/
What happens to our Christian pastoring, and our own Christian discipleship, if everything is filtered through a film of glass?
The expectation I struggled with is that I ought to be praying as I preach. Not simply praying as I prepare. Nor simply praying as I land the sermon. Not simply praying afterwards, that God will water the seed. But pray as I preach. Before, during and after. Not to do that is to fail as a preacher.
Let’s start with that red, which is the element which has attracted most of the negative attention. Is he bathed in blood? Burning in hell? What was Jonathan Yeo, one of our foremost portraitists, thinking?
If revival were to come in our day and in your home town or mine, how would we know? What would mark it? How could we come it. How should we prepare for it? What can we do to get out the way? Here are five marks, overlapping circles maybe, but in a sequence
Our brains seem to be creatures of habit by lazy preference, but notice something new straightaway. What does that mean for good preaching?
It’s as eye-gripping as Oppenheimer, and as worthy of discussion. Is religion an empty manipulative power-game?
Why does a social media feed, carefully chosen to cheer me on in ministry, leave me feeling so guilty?
There are some church leaders who only plan and prepare each sermon in the week before, being committed to the idea that God speaks in the moment, and they don’t want to silence him. I respect that, but my experience is that planning a sermon series ahead of time, doesn’t do that. In fact, if
Let me share something blindingly simple and obvious. So simple and obvious, in fact, that it’s taken me until I’m old enough to have a bus pass (US readers, = old enough to remember the moon landing) to spot it. Thinking is really important. #Leadership #thinking #pastor
Chris reviews a new book by the designer Thomas Heatherwick.
I was ordained forty years ago today. Was it worth it?
Once we have done our work/ministry to the best of our ability, it’s good for us to have something intentional to occupy our minds, and where we can take deep pleasure and refreshment, as a disciple in a different context.
My emotional dials at the beginning of the year were starting to show that I was consistently, tired, flat, and lacking bounce.
How can unplugging from relationships be good for us? Even on a sabbatical, love needs other people.
If you can end the year lighter, stronger, faster, sweatier, and bendier, even a little bit, you’ll be heading in the right direction.