What do you say to your church about the crisis in Israel? Saying anything is complex. Something nothing is to say something too.
Author: Chris Green
Choose something engrossing and difficult. And make your brain really work. Your brain doesn’t need a rest, like a muscle. It needs a fascinating challenge.
My sabbatical needed to focus on a theological area which would have a ministry consequence.
I want to offer up some elements of sabbatical planning, in case you’re thinking of something similar.
There are a lot of new people who don’t know what ‘normal’ looks like in your church. So what’s the plan?
We can now see more clearly what’s been happening to churches in the UK, pre and post lockdown.
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Healing the Divides is such a good and important book, that I’m not really going to review it, merely praise it.
Can you preach, with that curse ringing in your ears? You must.
I admit to becoming increasingly aware of envy, and it is ugly. And I’ve started to notice a pattern, which you might recognise, and maybe a way through.
Isn’t abuse something that should make us angry? Isn’t standing up for the victim something God’s people do? Something the leaders of God’s people are supposed to do?
The line between here and overwhelm is vanishingly small.
We’re still concentrating on leading our churches, one decision at a time. No wonder it’s exhausting.
Just because pressures are common or even fun doesn’t mean they carry no weight .We aren’t immune.
As always, Jim Packer stiffens your spine even as he warms your heart and clears your mind.
Christians have a vested interested in the Christianised Middle Ages; was it really a time of mud and ignorance? Or is that a piece of ignorant mud-slinging?
I’m delighted that The Gift is now available to buy. I wrote it because decent, biblical leadership is a deep need in our churches, and one we are failing to meet. Had working pastors are preaching good sermons – and leaving the teaching there. Or, knowing that there’s work to do, they reach for the
It is shameful and shocking that an investigation has found the Conservative Evangelical subculture to be characterised by fear.
There are only six ways for senior leaders to react to the Thirtyone eight Report and the IAG statement which goes with it. Three of them are deadly, and two more are unwise. By ‘senior leaders’ I mean the leaders of the larger churches, those who serve on Conservative Evangelical trust and committees, the people
‘A Time to Speak’ Jonathan Fletcher, abuse, and the Report – one Conservative Evangelical’s response
When a scandal comes really close to home, commenting is no longer gossip. There is, as Ecclesiastes says, a Time to Speak. This is it.