On the "stand up and greet time"

Thom Rainer recently produced a post on the top ten ways to drive guests from your church. He followed this up with a post here,

Six reasons to pursue fellowship, community and hospitality

Yesterday, I posted here on the cost of community, hospitality and fellowship. It’s important we understand what true fellowship, real community and genuine hospitality look

12 ways to look godly while not growing in your faith

Carl Laferton published two lists of ways to look godly whilst not growing in your faith. He offered six items for 2013 and six for

Something of a conundrum…

An issue cropped up in two separate conversations I had recently. In the first, both I and my fellow interlocutor independently reached the same conclusion

Learning from the idiot in the room

Here is a great article from Mez McConnell titled ‘Learning from the idiot in the room‘. Let me strongly urge you to read it.In it,

Why can’t we spot our biggest flaws?

I previously posted about John Newton’s observation that many Christians live with obvious character flaws which impede growth and affect our witness. I reproduced Tim Keller’s

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