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There are new posts on two other blogs: cityofdreams and theYELLOWhouse.

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I have just read once more these words from Erwin McManus: ‘Looking at the contemporary church, you would almost have to conclude that its founders were administrators and managers or at best theologians and teachers.  Yet we find that God chooses visionaries and dreamers.  In fact, God promised … they would become […]

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You have to speak what God has placed in your heart.
There are voices within and without that will seek to silence this but the world needs to hear it. 
David looked after sheep but one day his dad asked him to take food for his brothers who were at the battlefront with the Philistines - […]

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In my last post I mentioned four types of church when it comes to mission: implicit inviters, explicit inviters, gentle goers, and radical goers.  I asked which type your church is and which type you would want to be in.
I think for me it would have to be the radical goers, though […]

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I watched a TV programme this week that included a group of Pagans protesting that part of this was being filmed at what was, for them, a sacred site.
At the same time a couple of us are getting ready for worship on Sunday in which we’ll be exploring the passages recounting how […]

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I’m not thinking of the Mazda car slogan from a year or two ago but the sound of change.
I’m thinking about this in terms of we are what we are and yet what might we become as people.
Seth Godin writes, ‘”Zooming” is about stretching your limits without threatening your foundation.  It’s about […]

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Last night I was in a meeting with others from my denomination, looking at mission and evangelism. The members were honest about how they came from quite different theological positions.
Part of what we looked at together was a comparison of two paradigms of Christian theology - what might be labelled as […]