We moved church during the 3rd lockdown. It wasn’t an easy time to do it because it meant that our new church family were having to meet online. A pre-recorded service with a few songs and a talk was followed by coffee time on Zoom. Then we joined in a community group in the week… Continue reading Seeing in 3D
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Elders, deacons and more
Here’s the latest #FaithrootsLive session with more teaching on the role of men and women in church leadership
How we structured our prayer meetings
The other day, Steve Kneale wrote about prayer meetings and how to structure them. AS he said, there isn’t a right or wrong way to do this, so I’m not about to disagree with him here. Rather I thought it might be helpful to give another example here. I’m also opening up the comments section… Continue reading How we structured our prayer meetings
COVID and churches – latest situation
It’s time to give a little update on the COVID situation in order to help with updates to plans, provision and risk assessment for churches. First of all the good news: WE are currently seeing a fall in the number of deaths reported each day (measured as within 28 days of diagnosis). This can be… Continue reading COVID and churches – latest situation
Bradford: city of culture, city of need
Update: Bradford was confirmed as UK City of Culture 2025 on the 31st May 2022. I’m resharing this article hoping it will motivate people to pray for Bradford and even consider church planting there in time for 2025. Culture is coming home. We awoke to the news this morning that Bradford has been placed on… Continue reading Bradford: city of culture, city of need
When did you last hear a pastor talk about mental health issues?
In my recent survey about application and what pastors talked about, I asked respondents to indicate whether or not they’d heard pastors address particular issues within the last 5 years. One issue concerned mental health. This is such an important subject to address within our churches because as we preach and pastor we are so… Continue reading When did you last hear a pastor talk about mental health issues?
On idols families and estates
Mez McConnell has written this on people considering Gospel ministry on estates – or as they are called in Scotland “schemes.” There’s some helpful truth about the cost of discipleship and mission in Mez’s article. I hope he won’t mind though if I just push back a little on a couple of points. First of… Continue reading On idols families and estates
Heart Cry (Romans 9:1-29)
I wonder what kinds of things keep you awake at night. That’s one area where there’s no shortage now. Uncertain times caused by COVID an energy crisis and fuel and food shortages are enough to cause plenty of anxiety. But I suspect there are even bigger and deeper things that trouble us, wake us up… Continue reading Heart Cry (Romans 9:1-29)
Who condemns?
Yesterday in his guest article, Ash Cunningham wrote: This week Karen Ingala Smith published research detailing the ‘Femicide’ statistics in the UK, including the 81 women killed by men since the brutal murder of Sarah Everard. As Ingala Smith herself points out, neither the police nor the government have analysed the data, it has taken,… Continue reading Who condemns?
Vaccine conversations -Am I a truth suppressor?
Yesterday I published this article from Ash Cunningham in response to my article about Vaccine hesitancy and vaccine denial which Ash had prior sight of. I don’t want to prolong a debate but I did think it might be helpful to clarify one thing from the conversation and that might in turn help us to… Continue reading Vaccine conversations -Am I a truth suppressor?
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