Singing is not a sacrament
Lots of Christians today, without realising it, have started to treat singing as a sacrament. Now, I know that the word “sacrament” doesn’t trip off most Christians’ tongues. I doubt…
Lots of Christians today, without realising it, have started to treat singing as a sacrament. Now, I know that the word “sacrament” doesn’t trip off most Christians’ tongues. I doubt…
Let me start with two caveats. Firstly, I’m called to be a minister of Christ’s eternal kingdom, not the United Kingdom. I’m not a politician, or qualified to talk politics…
Today I reckon I’ve walked through at least 50 doors. Most of us walk through lots of doors every day, usually without even thinking about it. Doors are places of…
Here’s a description of the church I expect you’ve never thought about. In Isaiah 60:13, God calls the church “the place of my feet”. Now to understand this picture, we…
Forgiveness is one of those subjects where our thinking as Christians can get very sloppy. C. S. Lewis once gave a short talk called “On Forgiveness”, based on the line…
“Mindfulness”. It’s been embraced by Google, Transport for London, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Parliament. It’s encouraged by the NHS. And now our children are coming home from school, telling us it’s part…
Here are 15 common arguments for abortion, with short responses to each, taken from the solid (but quite academic) book, “Defending Life”, by Francis Beckwith. Abortion is a subject we…
One of my prayers for us as a church is to be a “thick” rather than a “thin” community. Here’s how David Brooks, writer for the New York Times, describes…
Here is something that puzzles me and I expect puzzles you too. Ever since we’ve started prayer meetings in Ilford, we’ve prayed for people we know to come to Jesus.…
I’ve just read a productivity book called Deep Work by Cal Newport. It’s not a Christian book, but, as Christians, I’m all for “plundering the Egyptians” now and then i.e.…