Today we’re on the move again. This time to Stockholm, which has been our goal for nearly two years. There may be a break in blogging while we move, settle in, get broadband and have a rest.
April 25, 2012
Why are we planting a church in a city?
If you just read the last couple of posts it would seem that I’d be against the idea of church planting in a city or that a church in a city will have little or no influence. Don’t be too hasty in your conclusions now. First of all, I do think cities matter and I [...]
April 14, 2012
Miscellaneous: The last links
It’s been a couple of weeks since I last did one of these so hopefully there’s some good stuff stored up but this may be the last one I do. I’ve started using twitter for sharing links as it is more immediate form of sharing. You can follow my twitterfeed and there are links plus latest [...]
April 12, 2012
What’s your lifestyle?
I use a lot of technology. I like my old secondhand smartphone with its apps and I’d like to upgrade. I like my laptop and blogging. I like messing around with design and new browsers, I like Twitter, Google+ and to a much lesser extent facebook. I like sending emails, talking with friends on Skype, [...]
April 12, 2012
Sent: By apostles
Apostles can be something of a controversial subject in evangelical circles today and the reason is simple. Some people think there have been no more apostles since the 12 and Paul and some other oiks have arrogantly called themselves ‘apostles’ or ‘apostolic’ (which is nearly as bad). Yet it seems that the idea of apostles [...]
April 10, 2012
What does it mean to be evangelical?
When I was growing up our family attended an evangelical church. We knew it was because it was in the name. Broadstone Evangelical Church was even a member church of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches. The name was later change to Broadstone Baptist Church because it was felt no one outside of the church [...]
April 10, 2012
Why be accountable?
Sometimes in the web you come across things all back to front. So I first read Mike Breen’s response to ‘Why I don’t believe in Christian accountability’. Then I read these quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer posted by Mark Meynell. Finally I read the original article by Mike Foster who is giving up on the word [...]
April 7, 2012
Not every day is a day of victory
There are certain branches to Christianity that tell you that the Christian life is always victorious. What they often mean by that is there will be no suffering, no illness, no failure. Glory to glory, as the saying goes. No room in this scheme of things for depression, gloom, sadness, sickness, defeat. Of all the [...]
April 6, 2012
The long Friday and the death of the world
Here in Sweden, today is not known as Good Friday but The Long Friday (långfredagen) because ‘the day was marked by sorrow when the day was long and hard for Jesus.’ I was struck by The Gospel of Mark’s account and it’s repetition in just a few verses. This is from the ESV “And they crucified him and divided his garments among [...]
April 4, 2012
Reverse engineering
One of the lessons I learned in church planting was to make sure you put the most important things in first. It’s called foundation laying. This is obvious, everyone knows it. The trick comes in actually knowing that the foundation has been properly laid. The most important things also need to be laid clear in [...]
April 3, 2012
Sunday mornings and church plants
A church must have a Sunday morning service or so I thought. If someone is looking for a church, they’ll look on a Sunday morning. Having a Sunday service gives you the sense of being a ‘proper’ church and as (hopefully) more people come, that sense of progress grows too. There are also lots of [...]
April 2, 2012
The hard graft of church planting
I’ve been enjoying reading John Stevens blog. He is the national director of FIEC but is also on the frontline planting a church in Market Harborough. In this post he writes about one ordinary Sunday in the life of the church plant. “We were low on numbers yesterday, which was discouraging. A number of couples were away [...]
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April 29, 2012
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