Category: 2 Timothy

The dark fear – what do we do on that Sunday when we open the doors and no-one turns up?

When we open the doors this Sunday, will they come back? Why should they, when there are the options of visiting family, going for a bike ride, hitting the shops – or even just having a lazy day with the papers and some coffee? And what do we do if no-one comes…

Stop running a ministry relay race: train more people

I can’t remember when I first heard the idea that Christian ministry is a relay race, but it’s a powerful metaphor: each generation passes the baton on to the next, and here we sit at the end of a line of faithful witnesses, passing it on yet again. It’s powerful – but I’m increasingly convinced

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Suffering for the gospel – 2Timothy, ISIS, and persecuted Christians in Iraq

2 Timothy spoke with awful new force as I preached on it recently and it helped me to understand more of the terrible challenge facing our sisters and brothers in northern Iraq. If there are any left. The image over this post, if it is unknown to you, is the letter N, an abbreviation for ‘Nasara/Nazarene’, now

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