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…

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…

I have been trying to get my head round the numbers involved when it comes to guns in the USA. Here’s my attempt at a make shift infographic – feel…

The world grieves with the people of Newton, Connecticut tonight.I was picking up my 6 year old daughter from a school disco tonight when I heard the news that most…

As a church we are really trying to help all ages to get a vision for missional living. We have been experimenting with a tweak on an idea from the…

It was Martin Luther King who commented that at 11 o’clock on sunday morning America is most divided. That was back in the 1963 but it feels that things don’t…

    In this 6 minute video Alan Charter who runs the Children Matter network argues from Deuteronomy why it is so important for the family to take seriously its…

  So many young people are like Kay Morgan Gurr’s  brother who said  ” I can believe in God, I can’t believe in the Church.” How we behave today as…

Today I was invited by the British Association of Adoption and Fostering to be at a consultation with Prime Minister David Cameron to talk about how we see adoption become…

How do we share the gospel effectively without feeling awkward, preachy or embarassed? Its a conundrum I have been working on for a while as it feels like we are…

As you may know there is an Evangelical Alliance Council meeting this week. We are looking at how we help young people to develop resilient adult faith. There’s been some…

We still have a huge problem in the church seeing young people grow up to become adult members of our churches. This month in Christianity Magazine, Youthworker and IDEA magazine…

This is part 2 of a blog about women,men and leadership in the church. My twitter stream has been populated with an ongoing conversation about women in leadership in the…

I missed being at Reading today, I missed the buzz of the lunch bars, seeing all the students turn up and eagerly await the beginning of the talk, seeing their…

I want to do some thinking out loud about how the church encourages and develops spiritual growth in young people. Here are some questions I am wrestling with as I…

Here’s simple idea to help your church come to love the Bible a little bit more. As an all age activity in our Sunday service we showed some of the…

Hi friends I am playing around with some ideas for a small church’s leadership structure. Would love to know if you have seen any good models. Here are a couple…

Christmas is such a busy time for church leaders, they work hard all year  and while everyone else is having a winter break it¹s often a pastor¹s busiest time of…

This looks like it could be a really good resource to rethink the way the local church does global mission.

1. Christmas Card CD Beacon have put together an excellent Charity Christmas Card CD . For only £0.70 a card you get a quality album of Christmas carols played in…