Digital Christmas December 27, 2010

A good friend of mine sent me this, made me smile…

Circles December 16, 2010

What is ministry? Ministry, for me… It’s all about circles. Pushing the boundaries on our circle of fear to live more in the circle that is God’s story for our lives.

The thought of Worship December 5, 2010

This is a considered and thoughtful article on the role of worship in our churches. I think it’s probably important to remind ourselves of the things described here from time to time. It perhaps links well with this recent entry from Donald Miller’s blog which I am enjoying a lot at the mo too. (Perhaps [...]

Loggerheads November 29, 2010

I can’t help but want to sit with the authors of articles like this and share a few stories of Jesus and the way he dealt with conflict or how he has worked in the lives of many around me. These issues are important, divisive and they are very real for our churches today and [...]

Doctor in November 25, 2010

I have been looking into theological study recently, you know, testing the waters, and one place requested I write down my doctrinal beliefs. I’ve never formalised my thoughts on this before, it’s quite an interesting exercise. Here are mine in my own language, they may need future revision though: I believe that God formed and [...]

Commercial relief November 15, 2010

A friend of mine runs a youthgroup, they had a youth event and they made a few adverts for it. I think they are quite amusing. Here they are.

I don’t think you ever feel ready for ministry October 27, 2010

Radio Silence September 23, 2010

Dear folk, I am sorry for the radio silence on PC over the last little while, I have been quite busy with my shifts at Manly Cycles (which is incidentally the funnest job like ever dude), but I have also been working on my sermon on Obadiah which was delivered to Northside Baptist’s evening congregations [...]

A Song of Praise August 30, 2010

My friend Ben and I have been working on a Worship song and here it is in all it’s technicolor glory. We wanted to write a song that worked well acoustically on a theme of corporately being inspired to praise. There’s a sense also, of wanting to inspire people to make use of the glorious [...]

Beauty August 20, 2010

Let beauty be what drives us to compassion. A vision for seeing beauty, inspired by Christ’s loving gaze at his people, by God’s intimate knowledge of the hairs on our heads will sustain in us a heart for compassion. When we grow towards seeing beauty as God Himself sees it, we will grow in our [...]

Love justice August 16, 2010

Just been listening to this sermon by Tim Keller as I work my way through Photoshopping a whole bunch of dried fruit. On the subject of social justice, I really appreciated TK’s very practical approach to where we should aim our lives in service of Christ. I particularly liked his points about being filled with [...]

We’ve all done it July 18, 2010

We’ve all had a time when we’ve craved a bit of celebritynessness. If you say you haven’t then I’ll respect that, but I’d ask you to be truly honest with yourself, have you never craved a little more recognition, wealth, status? It’s all on a scale. And if you’ve not craved a bit of the [...]

Faithful June 16, 2010

This weekend I went on camp with Northside, God totally met us, was faithful, brought change and grace, inspiration, built community, I feel so blessed. He even met me in a very powerful way whilst playing percussion during prayer ministry. Yesterday I moved out of a gorgeous house with some equally wonderful people into a [...]

Green earlobed June 10, 2010

This is a bit of a confession, don’t judge me, but I have always partly struggled to tie together the Christian faith with the ‘Green Issue’. It’s not that I don’t think looking after the planet  is important, I do. I even have a Pashley™ jute shopping bag that I carry inside my Crumpler™ man-bag [...]

Dawning revelation May 30, 2010

Another excellent sermon at Church by the Bridge tonight, (last night/today, erm… time zones?) rounding off the series on Revelation from chapters 21 and 22. Paul spoke on changing our vision of Heaven from a place, to being more focussed on who’ll be there, ie. God, the Lamb (Jesus) and the followers of Jesus. Allowing [...]