Jesus often used biological systems to illustrate the kingdom of heaven - yeast, seeds, fruit, trees, weeds. He didn't say so much about...

It's impossible to love someone you have not yet forgiven. Or, to put it another way, if you truly love a person you will certainly forg...

The recently published book, Simple Church: Unity Within Diversity , contains twenty-six chapters. Each one discusses a positive aspect of c...

The twenty-four author, collaborative book Simple Church: Unity Within Diversity  is now available to buy online and in bookshops. You can f...

There's a new book ready for publication, pre-orders are now being accepted by Redeeming Press and Amazon . It's called Simple Chur...

Visiting Huntingdon with soup again, we are astonished at the way Father is leading us. We spent several hours walking and meeting people, b...

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...

Here's what happened when we took some tentative first steps in reaching out in Huntingdon. We enjoyed good soup, met interesting people...

Here's an opportunity for some free online training. Steve Addison presents a session on following Jesus and making disciples. It's ...

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...

The beatitudes are well known and much loved by many. We try looking at the opposites of those who are blessed to see if we can throw more l...

Discussion at the cafe today turned towards need and resources, and how churches and governments in particular might help when people are fa...

Choudhrie's steps, Part 4 of 21 < Small and informal | Series index | Eat together > Victor Choudhrie asks us to share all we...

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

Leaders in the church, Part 8 < To Egypt and back  |  Index  |  Jesus is tempted > John the Baptist came to prepare the way. We can le...

Leaders in the church, Part 7 < Herod and the astrologers  |  Index  |  John the Baptist > Joseph takes his family to Egypt to escape ...

A walk along the riverbank and a sight of the old castle mound spoke to me about church. We consider the story of the castle and what it tel...

Josh Reeves shares some great ideas about 'knowing the story'. The idea is to make us more effective in what we already do, not add ...