Journeyman

I have been enjoying reading Urban Pastor’s blog – he’s based at Christ Church Balham (London). Today he wrote, But increasingly I’m finding that people are troubled by the ‘ought’ of the Christian life. They have an idea of the Christian life in which the second half of Paul’s epistles should be left out. It’s [...]

Do we live in a universe created by accident, or was there a design and a purpose behind our environment? God: New evidence is a series of videos examining some of the theory behind the universe, looking at the issues of how we can exist in the way that we do, in what has previously [...]

In the Bible the book of Psalms is a collection of poetry. Originally written in Hebrew, our translation into English misses out some of the beauty and technical skill of the original compositions. Philip Hewer recently wrote about the challenges of translating Psalm 119, the longest chapter in the Bible, and in its original form, [...]

Even I can understand the point of church starting at 8am when it gets as warm as it does here – 400 people crammed together at 11am just wouldn’t work. This morning we visited the Assemblies of God church in Ouagadougou with a colleague from the centre here. It was everything you would expect from [...]

Research seems to indicate that if you read your Bible outside of a church service then you’re a pretty rare breed. Only one in seven of us sat in church on a Sunday bother to read the Bible during the week. 2011 is the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible and Bible Fresh is [...]

It was late last night when Tany and I almost fell into the trap of watching a TV programme about teenagers who appeared to have swapped their lives in the UK for a place in a school in South Africa. That was what I took to be going on but as I didn’t see the [...]

Thanks to Mark for this post – Time for some honesty – I’m finding it hard to get my head around applying discipleship to my life. This post has helped. Now as a disciple of Jesus I am with Him by choice and by His grace I am learning how to live in the Kingdom [...]

What are we doing with mission? Oscar Muriu, from Nairobi in Kenya, says, “You are so good at innovating, and resolving problems.  But you see the problems and can’t live with them.  You feel compelled, your compassion moves you to FIX them. We need a brother to give us space, a shoulder to cry on…  [...]

I think I have said before that the whole church hunting process we are going through at the moment has left me completely underwhelmed. Sunday evening felt just like we were going through the motions of being at church, rather than being part of a church. Everything was fine and OK and right and good… [...]

What would you do to get out of going to church. One kid in Utah took ‘getting away’ to the extreme. Kevin D. Hendricks from Church Marketing Sucks posts the following. For a church in Utah it was apparently bad enough to prompt a 7-year-old to steal the family car and drive himself home. The [...]