Mike Starkey at Ivy – Fashion, Introspection and Providence. #Bgbg2
Last Sunday evening at Ivy my friend Mike Starkey brought some great thoughts on these three issues, here are my notes: Most of the references to fashion in Christian history have been negative. But...
View ArticleReady – Aim – Preach!
(continuing my series of thoughts on this most vital area for ministry…) In 1948 Harold Laswell described the ‘Magic Bullet’ theory of communication. Communication = a process whereby a source...
View ArticleThe Beautiful Gospel – Brad Jersak at Ivy – #Bgbg2 for @wtctheology
Brad hails from Canada and teaches Gospel Studies on the faculty of Westminster Theological Centre (which I am delighted to be a trustee of and teach on). My notes from his talk last week. He talks...
View ArticleAlan Hirsch at #Exponential on Discipleship
We can’t say when a person becomes a Christian. Not even at what point the apostles crossed the line. We are to make disciples He makes Christians What is discipleship? 1. Becoming more and more like...
View Article#exponential Rethinking WITNESS. Danielle Strickland. Lifting The Veil.
#exponential Rethinking WITNESS. Acts 3:1 One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer – at three in the afternoon. 2 Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to...
View ArticleMichael Frost at New Thing Gathering #exponential – Aslan on the move!
Michael Frost at New Thing Gathering #exponential Only one Australian has ever won the Nobel prize for literature; Patrick White A brutal, critical hater of the church in his biography he wrote about...
View ArticleRick Warren leaders meeting, HTB leaders meeting #LC14
I was privileged to be invited with a small group of leaders to lunch with Pastor Rick Warren – afterwards there was an ‘Any Questions.’ Here are my notes on his responses. I couldn’t think of any...
View ArticleA Theology Of Leadership: Nurture and Protect for Flourishing. @gtomlin...
The Christian church was born into an era of emperors. You ascended the imperial throne because of seniority, heredity or military glory. Then you could do whatever you liked until unseated by a coup....
View ArticleThe Ultimate Secret Of Prayer. Brother Luigi #LC14 ‘Fuel For The Fire’
Notes from seminar at HTB Leadership Conference: Basic law of Christian prayer - It is already there before you start. When you realise this, you are praying It’s like breathing: with you always...
View ArticleChurches On The Verge Of Movement – @alanhirsch at #exponential
I’m glad I didn’t post this immediately as I made the notes so it doesn’t come out with the flurry of other posts I made recently. This one needs some marinade time. My friends Alan Hirsch and Dave...
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