One of my favourite bloggers St. Eutychus recently shared this: I find myself wanting to both laugh and cry. As a cynic, as a previously “de-churched”, as someone who dislikes all the glitz and glam, all the show, I want to sit here and say “Yeah, stick it to those people who are like that!”. But [...]
Sep 272011
Sep 272011
When “not reinventing the wheel” becomes taking every shortcut, Remind me that I walk the long, hard road with You, When my interests and passions replace the things that actually count, Help me to remember my First Love, When I’m satisfied with playing in the shallows, rather than plumbing the depths, Call me into the [...]
Sep 022011
I went outside to find my son in a feral mood this afternoon. This is probably understandable – it’s the end of the day, at the end of the week, at the end of the school term. I think he has every right to be tired. But this was something else entirely. Argumentative. Teary. Flushed [...]
Sep 022011
Well, in the case of this one, I certainly hope not. It would certainly be feeling neglected, unloved and unwanted. Because I haven’t been here for a while. I even had to put some thought into what my username and password were. It has been a long time since I posted anything here, almost 6 [...]
Mar 242011
I love it when God puts something in our way at just the right time. It happened to me tonight. My wife and I aren’t running a small group this year, our desire is to be able to visit a number of the small groups on a regular basis. I went along to one tonight, [...]
A disturbing tweet that got my attention (h/t Will): Fresh Expressions is a misrepresentation of the gospel? Given my current situation, ministering within a Fresh Expression in Tasmania, I certainly hope not! Bruce Kaye has essentially written a review of Andrew Davison and Alison Milbanks book: For the Parish: A Critique of Fresh Expressions which critiques [...]
It started as a simple twitter conversation: me: Is starting a program, pioneering? me: Let me clarify – is starting an existing running program somewhere else in their own context, pioneering?! replier 1: If it’s just “getting the job done” it is not pioneering. If it is “carrying burden”/”giving birth” it is. replier 2: contextualisation [...]
Feb 212011
As I have mentioned previously, I currently minister at Connections – an Anglican church plant in Somerset Tasmania. This church is identified with the Fresh Expressions movement in Australia. I wasn’t around at the start of the church plant and so I have often played catch-up in regards to the story of Connections – how [...]
I am currently working my way through ‘Building a Discipling Culture‘ by Mike Breen and Steve Cockram. I will most likely review it at some point in the future, perhaps when I actually finish it and have let it marinade for a while, but for now a lesson in babies and bathwater. It didn’t take [...]
Jan 112011
Returning to Narnia briefly, I was pointed to a quote from this article (h/t Will) in Touchstone magazine If there is a possibility that Lewis was right—even a barepossibility—then this loss of the original Narnia, this domestication of Aslan, is distressing indeed. It signals nothing less than an invasion by a foreign and hostile power [...]
