As part of the ongoing “confidence in the gospel” initiative. I am pleased to be able to share with you an excellent talk from the inimitable Christina Baxter (former principal…

  Travelling home after a really encouraging time at the HTB leadership summit. Here are my highlights from day 2. You can read my reflections on day 1 here. 1….

The lausanne movement was pioneered by the incredibly humble and gifted duo of John Stott and Billy Graham. So it was with interest I came across this new video on…

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Tomorrow sees the next in our series of national consultations on helping the church gain Confidence in the Gospel. NT Wright (who was in the middle of editing his new…

If we are going to see the gospel of Jesus make the impact in the lives of Christians and in the cultures we live in – effective discipleship is the…

  I really like LOGOS Bible software. As someone who is on the road a lot – being able to carry hundreds of Bible commentaries with me is very useful…

Our family have just come back from an excellent time at Spring Harvest. Here are the 5 highlights for me of the event. 1. Confidence in the Gospel The theme…

Here’s the script of what I shared with Christian Aid staff today: “Lest we forget”, in just three words images of poppy fields, trenches, medals, the strains of the Last…

  Here are my notes from a large group meeting with Rick Warren – addressing group of leaders at St Judes, London. Wednesday March 21st 2013. Warren gave the following…

I know its not even Easter yet but some churches are pulling together ideas for the teaching programmes so i thought I would share with you a few ideas for…

Looking forward to speaking at the Salt and Light churches national leaderhsip conference. I leading a teaching stream on Engaging with culture. I thought I’d ask for a bit of…

Really excited to be working with UCCF in the Midlands to help equip students to get a vision for life beyond university. Here’s the rough cut of script I recorded…

Had a great time with the students at London School of Theology today. I was speaking on Isaiah 1 about what kind of worship God is looking for. I argued…

Looking forward to speaking at the News International Christian Fellowship meeting on Wednesday. As you can imagine for an organisation that has been through a lot of difficult press lately…

How can we make sure that the gospel we preach is not just a cut down westernised emaciated gospel? Sadly because we often don’t reflect on what the gospel is…

You might know that I have been interested in helping young people transition to adult faith for a while now. There are some key transitions that we seem to lose…

  Just in case it needs reiterating- the views represented on my blog and in this post are my own – I am not speaking on behalf of any organisation…

Its become a bit of an end of year tradition, Google makes a review of the year with stunning clips and an emotive soundtrack. Is it a not so subtle…

SKIT GUYS Love the way this video very artfully demonstrates that the whole of the OT story culminates in Jesus. I am thinking of using this in a service all age…