the waiting country

a love theme for the wilderness

Thursday, 10 August 2017

The focus of your life

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Pertinent question asked by Oliver Burkeman in the latest issue of New Philosopher : What will your life have been, in the end, but the s...

Feeling shame in the presence of God and in light of the cross

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Commenting on Ezekiel 36, Chris Wright says, Spiritually and psychologically there is profound insight in this chapter into the proper pla...
Wednesday, 5 July 2017

God is there

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God is there. There are times when our doctrinal conviction of God's omnipresence needs to become an experienced reality again. Whether...
Monday, 20 February 2017

On application in preaching

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In their helpful book, How to read Job, John Walton and Tremper Longman III make the following comments about application in preaching that...
Sunday, 23 October 2016

Why it's ok to not miss preaching

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In my post of random thoughts on the experience of a sabbatical , I mentioned that I hadn't missed preaching and wasn't too sure wha...
Monday, 19 September 2016

Some things I learned from my sabbatical

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Some pretty random, unrefined reflections on my recent sabbatical. Not in any particular order. 1. Don't leave it 22 years for your fi...
Saturday, 17 September 2016

Learning to read more

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You'd think every pastor has a natural inclination towards reading and a natural aptitude for it. If that's the stereotype then I fi...
Saturday, 14 May 2016

Finding the lion bigger as you grow

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"Aslan, Aslan. Dear Aslan," sobbed Lucy. "At last." The great beast rolled over on his side so that Lucy fell, half sit...
Saturday, 19 March 2016

the man who knows how to wait

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"Maybe the best definition of the leader is the man who knows how to wait. During the waiting he learns to lead by prayer. He deepens h...
Monday, 7 March 2016

How parables work (RT France)

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Parables...attract attention by their pictorial or paradoxical language, and at the same time their indirect approach serves to tease and pr...
Friday, 4 March 2016

How Jesus pursued his mission

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"He did not set out to aggressively recruit followers by overwhelming power or manipulation; rather, he humbly acknowledged that God...
Thursday, 3 March 2016

Renouncing privilege and power for mere persuasion

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Acts 28:30,31 is "a marvellous conclusion to the earliest recorded history of the church. Whether intended or not, Luke strikes the twi...
Saturday, 20 February 2016

On wanting to be a contemplative pastor

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Was it realistic to think I could develop [into] something maybe more like a contemplative pastor - a pastor who was able to be with people ...
Monday, 4 January 2016

Being an example as a pastor (or, How not to be boring)

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The single most important way for pastors or church leaders to turn passive laypeople into courageous and gracious lay ministers is through ...
Thursday, 3 December 2015

deliberate contexualisation

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If we never deliberately think through ways to rightly contextualise gospel ministry to a new culture, we will unconsciously be deeply conte...
Tuesday, 13 October 2015

The heavy, golden voice of Aslan

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“If you’re thirsty, you may drink.” They were the first words [Jill] had heard since Scrubb had spoken to her on the edge of the cliff. For ...
Saturday, 3 October 2015

God knew the worst about you....and yet

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God knew the worst about us before he chose to love us, and therefore no discovery now can disillusion him about us in the way that we are s...
Friday, 2 October 2015

What matters most in ministry

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Let us not measure men, much less ourselves, by gifts or services. One grain of grace is worth abundance of gifts. To be self-abased, to be ...
Tuesday, 22 September 2015

The old weather-beaten Christian

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The old weather-beaten Christian, who has learnt by sorrowful experience how weak he is in himself, and what powerful subtle enemies he has ...
Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Doing Christ-centred hermeneutics (Mere Fidelity podcast)

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Very helpful discussion of Christ-centred hermeneutics with the guys from Mere Fidelity:
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