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Keep Calm And Carry On Schlepping (via Tom Cannon)
Tom Cannon writes about church life that may not have evident bells and whistles, but which is a vehicle through which grace is mediated over the long haul. For all those pastors and churches who...
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Three Unexpected Ways to Make God Known (via Bonnie Gray)
Bonnie Gray writes about three unexpected ways to make God known, in a post published at Catalyst Space. So often stress causes us to try harder, rather than rest more in God. Wouldn’t it be something...
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J.I. Packer On Finishing ‘Flat Out’
John Piper writes in appreciation about J.I. Packer’s determination to finish at full pace. Whatever that pace may be. This is not an invitation to recklessly overdoing it, or to impose your...
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The Strengths Of A Multi-Generational Church
MGPC consciously seeks to nurture its life as a Multi-Generational church. Mike Lee has a post expanding on these six strengths of a multi-generational church. Strengths of the Multi-Generational...
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Sitting At Jesus’ Feet (via William Taylor)
William Taylor, Rector of St Helen’s Bishopsgate speaks about the singular necessity of sitting at Jesus’ feet in discipleship and ministry. Those who preach and those who hear must share the...
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Habits, Rules And The Heart (via Graham Nicholson)
Good words from Graham Nicholson at the Hawthorn Presbyterian Church blog on the danger of reducing response to rules. An excerpt: When the heart is focused on keeping rules as rules and not as a...
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A Better View Of Lent
My feed-reader is filling up with a variety of reflections on Lent. I’m among those who are not practitioners. This piece by Sarah Condon at Mockingbird is very constructive in reminding us that...
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A Seasonal Reflection For Our Local Newspaper
I seem to be getting back into writing articles for our local newspaper, The Border Watch. This one was published today, with the editor titling it ‘Easter A Season To Focus On God’. Maybe I’ll start...
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Ministering To Those Who Limp (via To Show Them Jesus)
A helpful article on ministering to folk whose spiritual lives seem to be constant struggle. If you’ve been in ministry long enough, you’ll find yourself helping someone whose problems never seem to...
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Following In His Footsteps Walking On The Outside
I’ve got to confess that sometimes I have no idea where these articles are going to end up. This ended up as a complete rewrite of the second half. The Border Watch decided to give me a sub-title this...
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Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot died on June 15 at the age of 88. Search around the internet; there are tributes of all types all over the place. My favourite quote from doing some research today. From Shadow Of The...
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Living For Eternity
This week’s Border Watch piece is a reflection on the lives of Elisabeth and Jim Elliot, Elisabeth having died during the last week. The paper titled this ‘Lives Sacrificed To Help Strangers’. The...
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A Time For Defending, A Time For Feeding
“A man can’t be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.” C.S. Lewis, Reflections On The Psalms, pg 7.
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Walking Out A Thoughtful Life In Regard To What We Love (via Sandra McCracken)
Sandra McCracken and Sara Groves perform McCracken’s song Dynamite (from her album Desire Like Dynamite). Here’s what McCracken has to say during the song: “Some friends and I went on a pilgrimage to...
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Following The Fame-Shy Messiah (via Zack Eswine)
Following Jesus and seeking platforms are compatible. Jesus is fame-shy. Jesus seemed drawn not to the spotlight but from it. Disciples and friends had to search. He wasn’t tweeting. His blog lay...
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Bearing One Another’s Burdens (via Daniel Hyde)
The Lord Jesus has borne the burden of judgment for the Christian’s sins. Then Jesus calls on his people to bear each other’s burdens. From Daniel Hyde, in a post at Ligonier: …since we in the new...
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How Will Christ Come Near Today?
Stuart McAllister of Ravi Zacharias Ministries reflects on a story from a collection by Tolstoy: In a certain home town there lived a cobbler, Martin Avdeitch by name. He lived in a small basement room...
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The Necessity Of Patience When Following Jesus (via Zack Eswine)
Zack Eswine writes about that moment when you realise you need something that God knows you need all along: This pastoral paradigm was bringing us face-to-face with an old joke in Christian circles....
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What About The Word Cross Do You Not Get (via William Willimon)
From an article by William Willimon on pastoral ministry and change titled Why Leaders Are A Pain: The promise of all bogus religion is the promise of a peaceful life without pain. That’s also the...
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Thinking Time
Another article for our local paper. I spent most of Wednesday positioning myself near windows so I could see the rain falling. And, as boring as it is supposed to sound, hopefully I’ll be able to...
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