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Monday, November 25, 2019

When you MUST advertise the sermon topic

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The worst feeling in the world   A slight annoyance must be the feeling you get when hearing a sermon at your church and thinking of an abse...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Idolising your new Temple

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I know it’s been a long time since I’ve posted, but between a month on teaching practice and exams, blogging hasn’t squeezed into my timetab...
Monday, September 30, 2019

The surprising way I suspect Jesus spoke in tongues

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Last term the small group I attend looked at the topic of spiritual gifts. As we were talking about the gift of tongues, I wasn’t so sure ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

What do you do if your minister doesn’t like you?

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Some ministers are delightful. Others can be a little jaded, even if only periodically. Most, hopefully, are somewhere in the middle of no...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Should you ever be a ministry expert?

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In ministry you can be experienced. You can be a veteran. You can be trained. You can be well-read. I don’t think you can truely be an ...
Monday, August 26, 2019

Do we just swap hedonism for reckless grace?

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A few weeks ago I was taking about the way people validate doing what they want. In a mass generalisation, our actions are often fed with ...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Investing instead of caring

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The longer I’ve been out of vocational ministry the more I suspect that I wasn’t a very good youth minister. Sure, I was efficient. At ti...
Monday, August 19, 2019

The no-longer-young-adult next step

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I’ve previously written that 25 year olds are not young adults.  I haven’t been a young adult for over a decade. Whilst I may still be st...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Apples with apples

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I fit into a few general demographics. I am in my 30’s. I am divorced, but newly married. I have two small children. I live 15 minutes ...
Monday, August 12, 2019

The danger of assuming the next sentence

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One of the greatest dangers you can do in any relationship is to assume. Assumption causes friction in the workplace. Assumption feeds di...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019

How long until sex gets good?

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Sex, at the start, can be awkward. A while ago I saw a couple who’s wedding I attended approximately a year prior. Having been married for...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Who’s prepared to give the REAL sex talk?

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When I got married a few months ago I didn’t need a chat about the ins-and-outs of sex. It wasn’t my first wedding. But, when I initially ...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

Can you RSVP death notices?

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Over the past two decades I’ve worked at four churches. In general, once you move on from a church you loose contact with most members you h...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

The danger of a new building

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I’ve been at a number of churches who have wanted to, been in the middle of and have completed a building project. Honestly, these times c...
Monday, May 27, 2019

The reason you must record your first sermon

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Somewhere, I’ve got a video of one of my first sermons. While it was only recorded for a preaching assignment, the practice of documenting o...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Is the church a singer production line?

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Seemingly, every mainstream singing competition is full of those who sing in their church.  I don’t think this is a coincidence. Why? Be...
Thursday, May 9, 2019

The questions behind every good sermon

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Last week, as part of a bible study I was leading, I took a group of young adults through some of the process I went through when writing a ...
Friday, May 3, 2019

Repeating your open air script?

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Last week I saw an open air preacher. For me, even being at university, this is unusual. It was at the entrance of a large event in Sydney...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Link as closely as possible when preaching

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This past week I was listening to a sermon in which the preacher made a small, albeit significant, misstep. During the message he connecte...
Monday, April 29, 2019

Explain & jargon > Jargon & explain

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Justification. Sanctification. Redemption. Anything  in ancient Greek. In church we know how to insert a term of church jargon.  This ...