Consumerism would say, we will offer what is directly relevant for you, and you can ignore the rest; countering that mindset means seeing the relevance of it for someone else, and being delighted that itās happening.
Author: Chris Green
I see peopleās eyes glaze over with a sequence of announcements. They reach for their mental āmuteā buttons, or āfast forwardā buttons, or whatever you do to get over the ads and into the programme.
People listen to our announcements with their guards up – itās their habitual response to being told about something.
If you know what youāre praying for, youāll know why youāre announcing it.
Letās pray for a non-weird revival, and letās be ready to call the weird for what it is too.
All over the world, flagship Apple Stores are offering a free, immersive Augmented Reality experience; a walking Tour around six artworks, āanchoredā in the area.
Iām increasingly convinced that for lots of issues, the battle isnāt over whether people know they ought to do something; they frequently just donāt know how.
As both Ezra and Nehemiah show, the task of renewing, restoring, reviving the people was, and is, never-ending. However great the work has been in the past, Lord do it again.
This is about a style of church leadership that is built on multiplying disciples and churches, from one-to-one coaching all the way up.
Hutchmoot has just happened, in the UK for the first time. What, you ask, is a Hutchmoot? Well, let me tell you a story. In Nashville, Tennessee, lives the wonderfully talented Andrew Peterson. Heās a novelist, and a publisher, and a family man, and he keeps bees, but he is also, and above all, a
The bible tells us to sing, repeatedly. Across both Testaments, at home and in exile, before and after Jesus, to God and to one another. Why? I mean, why sing rather than, for instance, reading the bible out loud, in chorus? We do that sometimes, and it works. If we are serving each other
Rest.Ā Days off. Holidays.Ā Even the occasional evening off – how do we make the best use of it? After all, it’s not just a good part of the creation rhythm, but it’s a reminder of the gospel. Salvation – even a pastor’s salvation – is not accomplished by your work. Well, we know the
The Preacherās Plateau. Weāve all seen it, heard it, smelt it. Itās the growing sense that the preacher has a style, a pattern, a groove. A default. Iāve seen it happen to preachers even in their late twenties: they get approval for preaching in a particular way, and they then assume that that is the
This wasnāt just being busy; this was a series of simultaneous responsibilities with a major price tag, and a lot of grieving people.
Are we willing to use people who are better than us? Because if not, we are doomed to be the best person in the room.
When I see younger leaders stuck in the mud, itās often because they havenāt learnt one of Maxwell’s eleven lessons.
Not every minister will āfitā every church. If that’s you, when do you go? Should you go?
Thereās one area of teaching that has always scared me. Money. Giving. Ker-ching.
Let me make a prediction: if you read this brief book, and rethink some of your preaching and evangelistic conversations in the light of it, you will do yourself, the gospel cause, and the people youāre speaking to a huge service.
Our local on-trend coffee shop has good publicity, chairs and paintwork. They have the proper kit as well. They like creation too.
