Posted on February 24, 2016
The 6 Most Important Christian Leadership Skills
A few days ago a friend emailed me asking what had been significant skills that I had sought to develop in Christian Leadership. I really considered it a privilege to be asked to input into this area and… Read More
Posted on February 19, 2016
The Significance of water | Salvation, Judgement, Cleansing and Baptism
At first glance, there is nothing striking about water. It makes up much of our planet and we need it to survive. Because of its ubiquitous nature, we are prone to think of it as normal and pedestrian… Read More
Posted on February 16, 2016
Matter Matters
While reading Chris Hall’s – Worshipping with the Church Fathers, I came across this great paragraph from John of Damascus on why matter matters; Chris Hall introduces the importance of a sacramental (God’s graces transmitted in physicality) realism;… Read More
Posted on February 12, 2016
Surviving Seminary | An Interview with Anne Harrington
Six years ago we met Anne Harrington through going on a short term outreach together. It was a formative experience for us, as the place we took our outreach to is the place we stayed, lived and worked… Read More
Posted on February 10, 2016
How the Invisible God becomes Visible | Part 2
In part 1, which you can read here, I wrote about the significance of Jesus becoming the image of the invisible God (a phrase from Colossians), and the significance of the idea of imaging God, which began in… Read More
Posted on February 7, 2016
7 Ways Outsiders Can Help Fuel Movement & Transformation
One of the fine folks we get to interact with every now and again is Brandon Jones. He lives in Nairobi, Kenya and is from the US originally. He is a deep thinker, but also very much a… Read More
Posted on February 4, 2016
How the Invisible God becomes Visible | Part 1
At the beginning of the book of Colossians is this curious phrase; The Son is the image of the invisible God – Col 1:15 It hit me in a new way as I read it last week. To… Read More
Posted on January 19, 2016
The end without end
“There we shall rest and see, see and love, love and praise. This is what shall be in the end without end.”
Posted on January 12, 2016
Tolstoy on Christian non-violence | Isaac Aho
Over the past two years Isaac has been one of my favourite people to talk, drink, think and pray alongside. He recently completed an M.A. in Spiritual Formation with the University of the Nations and lives in South… Read More
Posted on January 11, 2016
Life lived in the same direction as your Prayer
The importance of a life..”lived in the same direction as your prayer…A prayer makes sense only if it is lived. Unless they are ‘lived’, unless life and prayer become completely interwoven, prayers become a sort of polite madrigal… Read More
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