Where is the line?
Where is the line? The line which if crossed means I do not believe the person I am talking to should be a minister in Christ’s Church, because I am not even sure they are followers of Christ Jesus. And I really do have a line! I come from the more ‘fundamental’ part of the…
Where Adventure Begins
Where Adventure Begins has just completed its tour of Wales. St Padarn’s Institute – the department of the Church in Wales responsible for training sponsored the tour. And in all 450 people came to see the production. One performance in each Welsh Diocese. It came on the back of 20+ performances in England throughout January.…
I’d like to talk about GHOSTS…
The snow is falling. The gas lamps have been lit. Ebenezer Scrooge ventures home. It’s Christmas Eve. He has begrudgingly given his employees Christmas Day off. They only day off they get each year. As he crunches his way home, snow underfoot, he senses that all is not well. As he enters his home he…
The new book is out….
The new book is out! Foreword by Pastor Bill Wilson. Available at various conferences I’m pitching up to soon or at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0857218255/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1510910344&sr=8-1
If you plan on staying in ministry for a long time, you’ve got to learn this one…
Allow me take you to a slightly obscure part of the Jacob story. Genesis 31:22f is the story of the escape. Jacob has worked for Laban for many years. He arrived with nothing. God has blessed him. But Laban is growing increasingly envious of Jacob’s prosperity and Jacob knows a clash is imminent. So Jacob…
Sometimes you have to wrestle with God
I’d like us to spend a little time with Jacob. The core of his story can be found between Genesis 25 and Genesis 35. His birth is interesting. He is a twin. He and his brother Esau jostle in the womb before they are born and when they are born, Esau is born first, and…
It’s got to be about Mystery, Awe and Wonder
My youngest son started secondary school a few years ago. The thought of going to ‘big school’ was causing him some concern. Not in a small way because his brother (my middle child) had convinced him that every new arrival in ‘big school’ had to go through something called ‘swirlies’. It seems the traditions continue…
Christianity is about our response to four key words
He’d met Jesus, so his brother had to meet him too. That’s how it all began. Andrew brings Peter to meet Jesus. Peter the hot headed fisherman from Bethsaida meets Jesus. This is the gospel of John Chapter 1. This is the start. Peter is a fisherman. He would have come from a long line…
But Samuel remained in Ramah
At the end of the Epistle to the Hebrews there is a list of people that the writer says he doesn’t have time to talk about. It is an extraordinary list of individuals, and despite the writer of the Epistles reluctance, I want to write about one of them and maybe in doing so, show…
Faith in the Family
I have three children. At the time of writing, Nia is 20, Owen is 18. and Elliot is 14. They are all different. Very individual. Different motivators, different temperaments, but all great fun. I became a Christian when I was 15. When my wife and I had children we were in effect first generation followers…
More children needed in our churches…
The simple reality is left to their own devices all churches grow older, become increasingly inward Child evangelism – communicating Jesus to boys and girls who don’t go to church with their families – is the key to church growth. And how else can those children who don’t have Christian parents hear the gospel? I…
What motivates you?
What compels you? What are you passionate about? What gets you out of bed in the morning? And what keeps you going when it all goes wrong – which from time to time it will! For me it involves revisiting the story that birthed that passion in the first place. Here’s my revisit: It was my final year in…