Fruitfulness, faithfulness & apparently successful ministry

When do you shake the dust off your feet?

In Mark 6, Jesus speaks about shaking the dust off the Apostles’ feet. In Matthew 7, he speaks about not throwing your pearls before swine.

Sunday School, Youth Work & Reaching the Parents

Deciding what to do & whether to press on

If we change the question, I will have to change my answer

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

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

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