On the first Sunday of Advent 2015, a friend and I started talking about what we would like to see in terms of mission and outreach. We kept going and then we looked around coffee time was over and the others packing up ready for off. Oops if we are going to keep this conversation
The downside of purity part 1
Seeking purity in some contexts has got a bad name. Cast your mind back to the 1930s and 40s. OK before I was born but still within the living memory of some. There was something called eugenics, a way of thinking that wanted to clean up the gene pools of various nations. In some countries
What I learnt from a day out with my mum
Yesterday I had really lovely day. I went out shopping with my mum. that might not sound like much unless you know our history. I appreciate what so many others take for granted because for one reason or another I did not have that experience. now I have allowed God to restore me it is
What is the church for?
One major purpose of the church is for the healing of nations. After all the Great Commission includes the phrase discipling nations, in other words encouraging whole groups of people to live their entire lives the way God would like them to do. Where do you start with a huge task like that? I suppose
What is your Jerusalem?
I have been giving a lot of consideration to the question of what I am supposed to be doing. One of the questions is what am I to build and another is where should it be located. We are all called to work in a certain location. It is the place where we are called
The dreamer gets back onto the narrow path
I woke up with a strange dream this morning. I was standing in front of someone I knew as was both a pastor and a trainer. We were both in a church not dissimilar to a church that we were both associated with. This man was speaking gently to me. I was told that I
Like the logo?
The logo is really a word cloud. There are quite a few sites online that help you make word clouds. I used one called tagul. Actually, they are quite fun and you can use any text you like to make your word cloud. If you had not noticed I used the prophecy from the God’s
The son who lost and found his purpose
This story is based on an old story that may be very familiar to you. It has been altered a bit but it is still well within the spirit of the original story. It fits very well with the ideas behind the materials for Find Your Purpose, Love your Life that I am working on
Peter, Cornelius and money
My mind was going ten to the dozen during the bible study. I saw something in the passage that I don’t think anyone else saw. We were looking at the story of Cornelius and Peter in Acts chapters 10 and 11. In some ways it was reassuring but more of that later. Lets go over
My dream project
I was running drop ins for people with mental health issues but I wanted to do more. I had the idea of running some workshops. It proved to be one of those times when you learn a lot about what not to do next time you put an event on. One problem that arose was