The Simple Pastor

It’s world news that Stockholm has been troubled by five nights of unrest. It’s also mostly taken place, if you’ll excuse the phrase, within a stone’s throw of where we live. As I began to write this post I could see from my study window, in the near distance the smoke from another burning car. [...]

I’ve never really lived in a city before. I’ve had a few months in London here or there, studied in Nottingham, a year in Bujumbura (Burundi) and travelled around a lot. So I’ve had a reasonable amount of cross-cultural exposure but travel, student life and the world of international development all have their own unique [...]

I’ve been thinking about this for a while. I started thinking about inequality but, as I often do, I wandered and stumbled into something new. Those who trust in Christ will, I believe, inhabit the new heavens and earth (more specifically the new earth) and that new earth will be full of good things for [...]

For years I had a reputation as organizationally challenged and in some quarters it’s still expected that I will turn up 5 or 10 minutes late. As a church planter there are loads of challenges to work on and one is playing to your strengths while making sure your weaknesses don’t drag you down. So [...]

A few days I began to write about tackling Facebook and I was sent these links to Michael Hyatt’s blog where he articulates his similar frustrations with the blue and white monster. Stop me from deleting my facebook account Followed by Re-thinking my facebook strategy No I hadn’t thought of it terms of a strategy [...]

Sometime ago I began thinking about simplifying my digital life and have been chipping away at it since then. But there is one big blue monster that stands above them all: Facebook. The World Is Obsessed With Facebook from Alex Trimpe on Vimeo. . Facebook and it’s games generally get more of my time than [...]

At the end of 2010 I boldly declared my intention to simplify my digital life and that’s proving to be a bigger challenge than I thought but I’m making a few discoveries. Firstly, I began unsubscribing from countless sites I no longer visit and discovered that some sites are excellent in making it relatively easy, [...]

I’ve begun to realise that reasonable portions of my life are now appearing in other people’s books. I don’t think I actually feature in them but it’s still my life. Here’s how it works: I lived and worked for a year in Burundi and if you want to know what that was like you can [...]

I spend quite a lot of time (too much in all likelihood) online as the internet has become ever more useful and interlocked into how we do things. Basic things that once required pen and paper are now done online. I’ve noticed that as someone with reasonably high levels of curiosity I’ve signed up to [...]

In terms of decision making 2010 was quite a year and in 2011 I get to follow through on some of those decisions. There are a number of challenges ahead: In January we launch Hope Church and as a church begin Just 10. We’ll also apply to universities in Sweden. At the end of January [...]

As I think back over this past year it stands out from almost every other year. I’m not sure I can think of another year in which so many significant life shaping events and decisions have been made. It’s been a very full and momentous year (just the way I like them!). Here are just [...]

I know this to be true (Is 40:28), I certainly sing this truth but this is not always the same as letting the truth set me free. I, unlike God, very much do grow weary. This has (and is) a testing time with developments at the shop, the recent and excellent Soul Purpose, last weekends [...]