What has made apostasy such an attractive option these days? It’s like a social contagion. Or a social media contagion at least. Christians wringing their hands about where it all went wrong as yet another celebrity Christian leader (a descriptor I have been unable to source in the original Greek) hits the dirt in a […]
‘ Does your church need a fallow year? Sounds like apostasy in the ears of many church leaders, but the conversations I’ve been having with pastors, other paid leaders and lay people indicates that the idea of a fallow year might not be a bad thing for your church. You know what I mean by […]
Iris came into our house and our family via Mum. All the waifs and strays did. That’s how we used to meet them. That’s how they became friends to the point you can’t remember a time not knowing them. Mum would say “This is so-and-so, and so-and-so”, and that would be it. And if so-and-so […]
You know God’s doing something special when you’re choosing the colour of the ashtrays for the church not the colour of the carpet. Yet here’s Don Warner of Byford Baptist Church, an ordinary congregation of 140 ordinary people in an ordinary suburb in Perth’s ordinary semi-rural fringe, painting coffee tins for the local people, who […]
I first met Steve Addison a decade or so ago when a couple of friends and I were in the early stages of church planting. What struck us most was Steve’s humility and his wise, generous advice to a bunch of rookies starting out. It was a breath of fresh air. Ten years later, Steve’s […]
Which Tim Costello will we get this week? It’s become a bit of a guessing game to wile away the hours. Will it be School Principal Tim Costello, scolding naughty Christians “who need to “suck it up”? Or will it be avuncular Tim Costello, putting a hand on our collective Christian shoulders and going “There, […]
Oh, make me thine forever! And should I fainting be, Lord, let me never, never Outlive my love for thee. Have you ever thought about the possibility of outliving your love for Jesus? Growing old, but having left Jesus behind in middle age? What would that be like? I was out running this afternoon, a […]
The problem with this photograph, of course, is that it does not look like deconstruction. It does not look like falling away. It does not look like apostasy. It looks like a new Adam about to launch onto a new world. It looks like salvation. And that of course is what it is intended to look […]
Earlier this year I began a new part time venture with City Bible Forum, called Third Space, alongside David Robertson, a pastor, author and broadcaster from Dundee in Scotland who blogs at theweeflea.com. I am staying on two days a week with our church, Providence Church in Perth. David has moved to Sydney with his […]
