Why so serious?

Ha! There should be some kind of ban on me writing blog series'. It really seems to put me off writing. Question: Out of 10 how important is it to not take yourself too seriously? Good question. (- even if it feels a little clunky worded). I asked it to my colleagues. There was a …

Agenda Item #2 See the Value

So then, Jesus heals the woman. Whoopie! Everyone is delighted. The woman is praising God. The disciples are probably hi-fiving. “Here comes Revival!”. …Hang on a minute, the synagogue leader is not smiling… “There are 6 days to work, come on one of those days to be healed” – he declares. Interestingly his accusation isn’t …

Agenda Item #1 See the person

We all have agendas, some of them are big and important, some a small and silly. We set ourselves an agenda each week when we go shopping. We look at our watches, outside the doors of aldi, and we see if we can make it round the shop, past the checkouts and back out the …

Plank?

There is a famous story Jesus gives us in the gospels, well, it’s not really a story, it’s more of a word picture that I think we all know but that we all tend to forget. Either we forget it, or we assume, it doesn’t apply to us. On the other hand, ironically, we’re all …

Systematic Theology 10: The Knowability of God

Forcing myself to get this up and posted. Thanks to everyone who 'liked' the previous post - not that I'm doing this for the approval. Because that would be vain of me 😉 and we all know that is not a pitfall battle for me! ;P But, seriously, it is actually encouraging to get the …

Systematic Theology 9: The Existence of God

Long time coming, maybe we’ll be able to hammer out a bit more consistency over the next few weeks. Who knows. It’s only me putting this pressure on myself to finish the book by the end of 2019. But if that goal is to become a reality we need to pick up our pace. Like …

Systematic Theology 1.b Introduction (Why & How)

About this time last year I read a book by Simen Sinek, which has had a surprising impact on how I preach, teach and communicate ideas - even to a small group. The book is 'Start with Why'. And in it he argues that instead of starting which What you do or How you do it you need to …

Systematic Theology 0.b Preface

My target posting rate for this project is a chapter a week. That's what we'll aim for, but I am interested in applying it all as well, so I might go slower. And that's not the only reason there might be delays, if you're the praying type and you can spare a petition for me. …

Phillip Yancey – Vanishing Grace

And I have a lot of catching up to do...There is a lot I want to write about, a lot of things have been being processed in my mind. A lot of good stimuli, and not a lot of time to put them into blog form. So I've got an hour or so to clear …