Join us for live teaching, training and encouragement today. 9:00am Morning Prayer with devotions – Lord of Space and Time (Matthew 12:1-13) 2:00pm Gospel Maths (part 2) Pandemic proofing the church 8:00pm The finale of “Life in the presence of the Living God” as we look at Deuteronomy 33 and 34. All live sessions are… Continue reading Faithroots Wednesday
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Going Deeper
We often talk about the need to go deeper into God’s Word. A few years back, Andrew Sach and Nigel Benyon wrote a helpful little book with the title “Dig Deeper” which was all about the tools we can use to get a better grasp on what God’s Word is saying to us. The risk… Continue reading Going Deeper
Fear or hope – how to spot a conspiracy theory
How do you spot a conspiracy theory/theorist? I’ve been thinking about this over the past few day as I’ve done a bit of digging into the anatomy of conspiracy theories. You will have seen on my YouTube videos and my articles here that my view is there is primarily one conspiracy theory, a spine running… Continue reading Fear or hope – how to spot a conspiracy theory
Lie as old as time
Here is part 3 of our series on an anatomy of a conspiracy theory. Here we take a closer look at the first ever conspiracy theory.
Investigating Church Planting
This is the second part of a look at how pastors move to new posts. It’s partly for those of you who are interested in how I’m spending my days at the moment but also I hope these two articles will be helpful for those who are considering a call to the pastorate or calling… Continue reading Investigating Church Planting
Testing a calling – how decisions are made
As you know, we are in a bit of a transitional phase, on the 31st December, I left my previous pastorate and we are now taking a little bit of time to look at different possibilities to see where God is leading us next. The possibilities really divide into two categories. On the one hand,… Continue reading Testing a calling – how decisions are made
Truth Interrupted
Part 2 of our anatomy of a conspiracy theory series. Conspiracy Theories invite us to disbelieve what our eyes and ears tell us
What your Bible translation does
In my previous article talking about how to slow down our reading of the Bible I mentioned that you might find it helpful to read from a different translation from time to time. I thought it might be helpful to talk a little about choosing Bible translations in terms of how they function. There are… Continue reading What your Bible translation does
You shall know the truth -anatomy of a conspiracy theory (1)
I’m kicking off a series of YouTube shorts looking at Conspiracy Theories. I uploaded the first video today.
Slow Down
If you take a preaching class, one of the first things you’ll start with is something called Exegesis. Exegesis is all about how we read the meaning out of (Ex) the text. This is contrasted with eisegesis, reading our own meaning and ideas into (eis) the text. The risk when preaching is that we will… Continue reading Slow Down
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