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I’ve returned to the scriptures I was reflecting on yesterday and the renewed call from Jesus to Peter to follow him.
Erwin McManus writes of the call: This is the sticky part of the barbarian call. It is not fair or equitable. … He is not calling you to the same life […]
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My big read for this year is David Bosch’s Transforming Mission which I’ve had for over seven years now but never read.
I’m enjoying it, just turning a page a day will mean it’s going to be in the background to everything else I’m reading through the biggest part of this year.
As Bosch […]
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I began today with Matthew 26:31-46, in which Jesus tells the disciples they are going to desert him and Peter that he is going to deny him.
Such is the leadership in waiting for a new movement hours before Jesus is crucified.
We are vulnerable people, fragile in our faith, we “fall to pieces” […]
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I like the way Eugene Peterson pulls out some of the meaning of Matthew’s account of Jesus sending out the disciples in The Message - (Matthew 10:5-16).
Jesus is saying to the disciples: You don’t need a lot of equipment. You are the equipment.
When I increasingly live my life in step with […]
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Here’s an image a friend sent me after one of my recent ‘new terrain …’ post and I thought it would be good for a caption competition.
Over to you.
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I’ve just run one of the new running routes, mentioned in my last post: this time the other way around. So, here are a few thoughts that emerged for me:
The new terrain for me means steeper hills, but today I ran up the not-so-steep way, rather than the really steep way.
Just […]
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New terrain … new train.
At least that’s my thinking after a attempting two new running routes. Before Christmas and New Year I completed a number of half-marathon routes. I decided to drop the distances way down for January and February so I have chosen some rougher and steeper terrain.
Near to […]
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I’ve just read how Disney has a head of Imagineering.
I love that.
I admit others will not.
They are probably in the Engineering side of things - getting things done.
But the two must “hold hands.”
They need each other.
For many churches, this is undiscovered country.
Undiscovered doesn’t mean that it’s not real though.
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I am involved in a number of conversations that are directly or indirectly asking “What is the gospel?”
Have a look at this definition from Scot McKnight: the gospel is the work of God, in the context of community, to restore Eikons to union with God and communion with others and the world, […]
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I am reading The Barbarian Way by Erwin McManus for the fourth time. I forget so much and need to be reminded of what it is to be a follower of Jesus Christ.
Here is a description of an uncivilised disciple altered so that it appears in the first person: Jesus Christ, you […]
