the waiting country

I'm taking a few moments just to bow my head and give thanks for my Dad, who passed away 5 years ago today. I sat with him whilst he too...

This article by Cal Newport is not ministry focussed but has some helpful principles for managing the creative demands of regular ministry

The last quarter of the moon of Jesus gives way to the dark; the serpent digests the egg. Here on my knees in this stone church, that is ful...

Fujimura - 4 Holy Gospels from Crossway on Vimeo .

Having enjoyed the duet with The Masked Badger on 'Great Albums...', here's something a bit different and worth a listen: the c...

So, the last great album in my list - what a lot of fun this has been. There are so many others that ought to have been on here but Spotify ...

this is a (Kindle) bargain: For the Fame of God's Name (essays in honour of John Piper) 27 essays for £5.97 = 22p per essay!

Stevie Wonder was a regular part of my Radio 1-filled days back in the 70s. I liked some of his singles a great deal; others were just ok. ...

Only 4 albums in 26 years (so far). And, as far as I can see, no vast reservoir of bootlegs to expand the canon. Which means that in The Blu...

If you had to cut-down Springsteen 's sprawling double-album, The River , what would you keep and what would you ditch? And how would th...

Whilst reflecting on the life and ministry of Francis Schaeffer , Martin Downes asks a rhetorical question that reminded me just how powerf...

It was their breakthrough album, after the interesting but transitionary In The Garden . And it may be surpassed in some minds by the next-u...

I know that things are bad when I catch myself no longer caring all that much, either way; worn down by endless abrasion, I'm ready to...

Larry Crabb offers 3 reasons for going deep into our hearts, to expose the pain and the thirst: Freedom from compulsive sin requires an awar...

...far too often hard questions get buried beneath a pile of memorised verses and stricter conformity to local standards of Christian conduc...

Ever heard of Heisenberg's principle? OK, smarty-pants; most of us haven't heard of it. But I came across a reference to it in an a...

We simply must get rid of the idea that the obedient Christian is supposed to feel good all the time. The springs of living water bathing ou...

Where there is no death there is no need for procreation, and so the exclusive relationship within which procreation takes place is no longe...

He's already figured here - and I passed over the opportunity to make this selection at that time - but I just cannot avoid another Neil...

Mike Bird is concerned that "some are beginning to replace the imperative element in Christian sanctification...with the need for more...