Jun 24, 2021 | Infusing Culture
Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. ‘Sir,’ they said, ‘we would like to see Jesus.’ John 12:20-33 Earlier this year we heard about a rare bird that had...
Mar 15, 2021 | Inspiring Discipleship
People love a conspiracy theory. Lockdown has outed a few more. So, to Covid, the vaccines and Christians. Most of our church members have been positive about the vaccine celebrating, with those already vaccinated and encouraging those not yet vaccinated to go for it....
Jan 24, 2020 | Infusing Culture
Last year I preached a series on ‘values’, those words used by contemporary churches to describe the kind of church they aspire to be. It was not a list of values we had generated ourselves – we don’t have an agreed set of values – but instead we unashamedly...
Apr 30, 2019 | Igniting Mission
For Lent this year, I decided to wear a dog collar during ‘normal operating hours’. This decision had been building up for just a few weeks and had not come out of ‘no-where’, but it did open up the possibility of a shift in my understanding of local pastoral ministry...
