When I was 9 I wrote some goals. These included scoring goals in football (I never did!), going on holiday on my own, learning more about Jesus and being able to prophecy. My 8 year old daughter, Tamasin recently found this and wrote two goals of her own- 1. To go on holiday to 5 different countries2. To be a full Christian When asked what a full Christian is she said something like this- “When Children want to be Christians... Read more
Not to be outdone by his sister, here is my son Henry’s work: My sister the church girl spends her time writing poems.My brother loves to play in the moonMy other sister hates to singMy mum loves to knitMy Dad loves to WRITE BLOGS ON THE INTERNET! Read more
Here is a poem by my daughter Tamasin: My Mum the famous knitter Spends her time knitting My Brother the famous racer Spends his time racing My Sister the famous dancer Spends her time dancing My Dad the famous blogger Spends his time BLOGGING! Read more
Tim has interviewed Richard Abanes who spent the second post supporting Rick Warren and the first exposing Harry Potter. Tim has experienced a reaction which has led to him posting on being accused of being a tool of the Devil. The other posts can be found from the one I linked to in the “Related Posts” box. The kind of response Tim sadly got is why I am building up slowly to posting my thoughts on Rick Warren’s recent UK... Read more
Hugh Hewitt’s Blog has had a major redesign and even has a feed now! Looks nice. Read more
My good blogging friend gaddabout has pointed us all to Martin Luther’s Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians- now thats cheating, but all the best preachers will tell you they never have an original thought in their heads- I wonder where Luther got all his ideas from…….. Read more
Evangelical Outpost pointed me to a great post by Catez who says: “Recently I’ve seen posts in which the conclusions drawn are that if more than a certain number of people read a blog, or a blog appears in a certain position on a list of blogs, then this is a popular blog and this is not good. Ive even seen comments saying that these popular bloggers are like Pharisees because they are prominent and therefore are not humble. Well... Read more
Recently I have been reading Bill Hybels book “Courageous Leadership”. Ihave found it very interesting. Bill seems to be another example of a manof God who is willing to learn practical wisdom from whatever source he canfind. It is possible for us to know all our biblical theology but end up buildingnothing that is of substance or will last with our lives. The bible is sufficient for the purposes for which it is intended to besufficient. Learning some of the... Read more
I would love to take some of you on a journey of discovery about what goes into writing a sermon series. One of my readers asked a while back how to make a great sermon. Well, in case you didnt know already one of the great tips of sermon writing is get as much help as possible. I am increasingly convinced that theology was always meant to be done in the context of community. We are working that out locally,... Read more
BBC NEWS reports on the largest ever pollice operation that is under way today in London. Not since the second world war has there been such a deployment of security officers by the UK government on UK soil. All pretense that we are trying to carry on as normal has been cast to one side and the police were positively crawling over the tube network on my way home tonight. Everywhere you turned you saw coppers. Meanwhile tonights Evening Standard... Read more
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