Where Does The Power Lie?

Where Does The Power Lie?

‘Oh, I wish we could go back to the day when we were a Christian country.’ I have heard many say words to this effect and it leaves me feeling sad and if I’m honest, quite angry. I wonder whether we can every really claim we were a ‘Christian country.’ I know that’s...
How Long O Lord?

How Long O Lord?

For this post you really need Isaiah 6 in front of you. In fact, if you’re short on time skip this blog and just read the chapter. All of it. Not just the encouraging bits but the verses that don’t seem to make any sense. Isaiah 6 is God’s word to us in these...
The Cross: Costly and Free

The Cross: Costly and Free

This is a time like no other. That’s certainly how it seems to many. The country is in lockdown. The Prime Minister is intensive care. Nearly all of us have a friend, relative or colleague who has become unwell with corona virus / Covid 19. Most of us know a person...
Twelve Steps Towards Freedom: People

Twelve Steps Towards Freedom: People

I’ve taken to going on a short walk after lunch.  My once a day exercise as recommended in the government COVID-19 lock down advice.  Keeping an appropriate distance from other people of course. During the first week of the lockdown, on a beautiful blue-sky day I...
Pursuing The Mission Of God

Pursuing The Mission Of God

I’m hugely impressed by the rapid responses so many individuals and churches have already made, since the escalation of the impact of coronavirus. We talk a lot about innovation and adaptation during Re:Imagine and as one leader said to me last week, following the...
Twelve Steps Towards Freedom: Change

Twelve Steps Towards Freedom: Change

I have hesitated to write this month’s blog.  But this is a journey and so with fellow travellers I think I need to be honest.  I’ve been travelling quite a lot over the past month.  Some of it greener than others. I travelled “greenly” by train to the South Eastern...