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….

Intriguing talk yesterday from Patrick Lencioni at the HTB leadership conference. As someone who has enjoyed a lot of his books. His talk felt slightly out of his comfort zone….

1. Justin Welby The spiritual leader of 80 million Anglicans was introduced after a moving gospel singing rendition of amazing grace followed by a rip roaring ear drum shattering rock…

  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…

I am a big fan of the Rend Collective. I think their music feels like worship songs for the Mumford and Sons generation – there’s a homemade, folky, engaging warmth…

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…

I finally caved in and took my eldest children to see the Hobbit yesterday. We decided to go the whole hog and went to a 4K cinema and saw it…

  Whatever kind/brand of Christian we are – the Bible is our book. God’s word ought to unite us as no one can come to faith without it and no…

Things to love [Becareful there are a few mild spoilers in this post] . There was lots to enjoy in this year’s Bond offering, Sky Fall… 1. Cinematography This is…

Trying a different tack with my youth group. In a bid to do both evangelism and disciplemaking in 11-14 year old group I run after school, I thought I would…

Strangely for a blog about the book “Unapologetic” I have to apologise for being a bit slow on the whole read as you blog / blog as you read thing….

This month I am inviting you to read along with me the new book by Francis Spufford: “Unapologetic” Here’s my impressions on chapter 1. Feel free to join in – its…

I wanted to express in writing my thanks to Vaughan Roberts for being brave enough to talk about his struggle with same sex attraction. In a recent interview in Evangelicals…

Just thought of the title for this blog after I wrote the following review, but now that I think about it – it is sadly unusual to find scholarship that…

We all know that the media massages the message, but these two recent incidents of audience manipulation have caused me to sit up and take notice. First, here is a…

Looking forward to speaking at Moorlands College this week. They have asked me to speak (for a couple of hours) on the key challenges and opportunities facing evangelicals in the…

HTB leadership Conference Live Blog Thanks to the very generous people at HTB I was given a guest pass for today. So thank you. There’s a real buzz in the…

  You have got to be careful how you search for Matt Chandler’s new book “The Explicit Gospel.” It’s an interesting choice of titles. It has a commendation from Mark…

Born to Run Got up at 5am then went for a run around the Lake at the bottom of the hill that Alan Hirsch lives on. I put together a…