the waiting country

Having completed their GCSEs, Albert's school year had their leavers' prom last night. Here's the young man in his finery....

Today is Mavis' 80th birthday. She's having a birthday tea with lots of friends on Saturday. As a family we had a couple of days awa...

Ron Ashkenas has some thoughts that might help you with thinking through how to handle the culture of your church.

Looking for some sounds to go with the weather? Then why not try The Sundays ' album, Static and Silence - it's a corker.

Some helpful advice from Seth Godin here .

The third album by China Crisis , Flaunt the Imperfection , is beautifully done and probably their highest high. The nice folks at Spotify ...

A helpful post over at 99% on how to keep things simple, the main points being: 1. Simplicity of access - centralise your essential materia...

If you like old hymns in new settings and, sometimes, with new tunes then you might be the ideal candidate to give this new album a listen.

So says this piece by Matt Tebbe - worth a read.

is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ . It is costly because it costs a man ...

If you're a bit of an insomniac, even occasionally so, you might want to check this out . HT: Lifehacker .

You can read Mike Bird's take on the purpose of Romans here . Almost as interesting is the word-cloud he illustrates his post with.

This is a very interesting presentation. (HT: David Murray)

In a recent piece on ministerial calls, Carl Trueman begins thus: If the great need of this hour, as of every other, is preachers of the gos...

Length is the enemy of strength. The delivery of a discourse is like the boiling of an egg; it is remarkably easy to overdo it, and so to sp...

Kevin DeYoung has a great piece on what it means to engage in growing in grace. He ends it with these words: When it comes to growth in go...

For me, that's one of those questions on which I to-and-fro. If you're like me, you might find this article of interest. Right, whe...

(The Best Books - no.8) The published sermons on Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones are so plentiful, it seems fairly random to select this from among...

Anna and a clothes-prop, in the vicinity of the bathroom window, late on a Saturday evening. There's really no rational explanation.....