Grace, Truth and Rob Bell
Before Rob Bell’s new book “Love Wins” has even made it into print, the trial by media and blogosphere has already begun, and those of us who presume to be jury need to be aware that we too will be...
View ArticleCome and work with me
Friends I have a fantastic job opportunity available for the right candidate. My team at the Evangelical Alliance has some fantastic projects in development centring around equipping the UK church for...
View ArticleWhat do young people actually think of the church?
As you may know there is an Evangelical Alliance Council meeting this week. We are looking at how we help young people to develop resilient adult faith. There’s been some really helpful comments on...
View ArticleThe Church and Adoption…
Take your child to work day worked out well for my son... Today I was invited by the British Association of Adoption and Fostering to be at a consultation with Prime Minister David Cameron to talk...
View ArticleWhy is the UK church racially divided?
It was Martin Luther King who commented that at 11 o’clock on sunday morning America is most divided. That was back in the 1963 but it feels that things don’t seem to have moved on very far. At a time...
View ArticleSocial Media and Changing the World
Photo credit: Flickr (Creative Commons) Here’s a 4 mins and 30 seconds long talk I was asked to give at the Lausanne Congress in Cape Town two years ago. It is interesting to reflect that this was the...
View ArticleThank you to Vaughan Roberts
I wanted to express in writing my thanks to Vaughan Roberts for being brave enough to talk about his struggle with same sex attraction. In a recent interview in Evangelicals Now , Vaughan Roberts who...
View ArticleThe Missing Trinity in Evangelism
We had our first confidence in the gospel consultation at St Paul’s Onslow Square on November 20th. It was an excellent day with a broad range of speakers and participants coming together to talk...
View Article7 reasons why Preaching is Dead
This post is part 1 of 2. Click here to see part 2. 1. Communication theory – preaching is a dated form of communication in postgoogle setting people want the right to reply – preaching leads to a poor...
View ArticleLiving Out
I have been so busy lately that I missed the launch of this excellent website. www.livingout.org It is launched by evangelical Christians who want to talk about what it means to live with same sex...
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