Updated version...   The old city on the hill  - Approaching the end of his three and a half years of teaching and healing, Jesus told his d...

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Sometimes Jesus just surprises us. Sometimes we surprise ourselves. Perhaps both of these things happen more often when we are open, and act...

We take a look at hunger, thirst, loneliness, nakedness, bad health and imprisonment. Jesus suffered all these things, helps people with the...

What are the basic rhythms of our lives as followers of Jesus? They involve coming into his presence and going in his Name, and that, really...

Alan Hirsch urges us to cycle through the gospels as one way of keeping Jesus central in our hearts, thoughts, words and deeds. It's goo...

Leaders in the church, Part 11 < Jesus makes a start  |  Index  |  Some issues to grapple with > Jesus gets away from the crowds and b...

Leaders in the church, Part 10 < Jesus is tempted  |  Index  |  Back to front truth > Matthew tells us how Jesus began his ministry by...

Leaders in the church, Part 9 < John the Baptist  |  Index  |  Jesus makes a start > Jesus was cast out into the Judaean wilderness (a...

In their book, 'The Shaping of Things to Come',  Frost and Hirsch  point to Jesus' Jewish background as key to understanding his...

Prompted as I wrote a reply to a blog post, I felt I needed to write at greater length on some principles of leading and following. Men, wom...

SpaceX is solving a fundamental blocking problem in spaceflight. This is a great example for the church where a similar blocking problem nee...

Visiting Bath Abbey left us with a conundrum. When the Roman legionaries dressed Jesus in a robe and mocked him as a king, was that robe pur...

If there's a Creator, why is suffering permitted? Perhaps we are looking at life in the wrong way, it's not about ease and safety. I...

Leaders in the church, Part 4 < A joy, not a burden  |  Index  |  Miriam and Yoseph > The basis for all church leadership is not in...

Donna lives in Nottingham and is meeting children on the streets and simply involving them in church life. There is a pattern to what she is...

Legislation in Uganda is set to increase the penalties for homosexuality, possibly even to introduce the death sentence. How should believer...