Making a kingdom difference wherever God has placed you. Be encouraged and encourage others to do the same.
Jesus calls us to be salt and light, change agents of the kingdom of God. We like the metaphor of infusing, mainly because much of Seventy-two has emerged from conversation over good coffee!
We are now living within a post-modern secular cultural environment, which is increasingly challenging for Christians. Within living memory, the UK has shifted from regarding Christianity as the provider of a beneficial legacy, the values of which were for our benefit and blessing, to a constraining influence to be broken free from. Jesus, however, talks about being set free and providing life in all its fulness. Seventy-two encourages you to live out the life of Jesus wherever you are.
Infusing Culture Articles and Resources
Following their recent announcement that Table Talk for Wellbeing is now available to preorder, The Ugly Duckling Company's Sharon Lanfear recently asked Renew Wellbeing's Ruth Rice a few questions about wellbeing. Ruth Rice is the founder of Renew Wellbeing, and one...
Love God, Love each other and Love Weston-Super-Mare
Since starting Re:Imagine, we have met regularly as a leadership team to discuss and pray about where God is leading us. The word “simplify” has been mentioned many times. We have been challenged to look at areas of church life which do not serve the purpose of...
Live, Work and Worship
In his book on American Politics, Jim Wallis says when he asks about Poverty, the key verse Christians quote is John 12:8 “The poor you will always have with you.”, he says that the church has accepted poverty as inevitable and unchangeable. But Wallis goes on to talk...
‘Normal’?
‘I can’t wait to get back to normal’, is a sentence I’ve heard so much lately. It fills me with two very strong emotions. The first emotion is a deep sense of longing. This emotion agrees whole heartedly with this statement. I long to be back to normal. I long to have...
Holy Spirit, come like a rushing wind
Today the world looks different to pre COVID-19. We are emerging from a global pause and stepping into something new, with all the possibility and opportunity this brings. Economic systems and paths which lead to societal and environmental destruction need not...
Church Generosity
We are in a world that has stopped growing! Up until the last few weeks, our world has been based on Growth, exponential growth. But a small virus has prevented us from growing, over the next few months the world economy is likely to contract to a level unseen in...
Sabbath, Gleaning and Jubilee
Like most people the words Corona Virus seems to be the only words on my mind, I have already heard of people dying, family members who have symptoms and even a couple of people in my church have been self-isolating with a suspected case. But there are three words...
Acts of the Imagination: Culture-making through the visual arts
Today we’re seeing a flourishing in the visual arts and theology. For the first time since the Reformation, the church is acknowledging that visual culture may be another language through which Christians can preach the gospel in all languages. Visual artists have the...
Our Nepalese Journey: 2015-2020
Sandhurst Baptist Church is a small Church with a big heart for the Community of Sandhurst. We are outward looking and Missional and look to link with the outside community whenever possible. In early 2015, a couple of us were praying in Chapel when a lady from the...
Preaching On ‘Church Values’
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 borrowed...