A couple of days ago, Eddie Arthur wrote a blog post in which he spoke about the need to contextualise the gospel. He argued that
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Why did Jesus curse the fig tree?
I got asked this question at one of our recent Muslim-Christian dialogue evenings. It wasn’t quite in this form. It was put to me in
The reality of ministry
Around three years ago, my friend – Mike Tindall – delivered an address at my pastoral induction. Ever the encourager, here was what he had
Treasuring the word in a non-reading culture
As a minister of a church, naturally, I want my people to read their bibles and pray. I want them immersed in scripture and I
How do we judge ministry success?
Yesterday, I wrote about why numbers & responses are not the measure of ministry success. If we are primarily judging ministry success by numbers, many of
How to kill a church
I have just finished reading Mark Ashton’s excellent little book Christ and His People: Eight convinctions about the local church. It is a very short little