Grace in the Community

Contextualisation is vital.  Missionaries spend time learning a language and a culture so that they can share the gospel effectively and pla...

"Image is nothing.  Thirst is everything.  Obey your thirst."  So went the advertising slogan for Sprite that I still remember dec...

I am naturally competitive; board games, games of FIFA 16 against the boys, real sports, and so on.  I naturally want to compete and win, I...

Anyone who has read this blog knows how hard Yorkshire is to reach with the gospel.  The work is slow and laborious, often 3 steps forward 2...

Is there a type for disciples of Jesus?  That's a good question; Do you have to dress a certain way, or react a certain way, or think a ...

We know in our heads that church is not a building, we know that it is not a service, and we know that it is people. We know that it is rela...

On the recommendation of a couple of people I finally sat down last night to watch last weeks episode of Flashforward. The premise of the sh...

This is a very cleverly written book as we see events in Germany during the Second World War through the eyes of a young boy called Bruno. ...

Took the family to see Kung Fu Panda. It is a good family film which we all enjoyed, it is a fairly traditional children's film, with s...

Do you worry when you invite people to church about how they will respond? Will they mock me? Will they ridicule me? They are some of the...

I recently finished reading Mark Driscoll's 'Confessions of a reformission Rev', its a book that is well worth reading for the c...