Category: Random Links

Who do YOU say is most influential? While this question might still interest me some what, but it doesn’t excite me that much 🙂 Willow Creek’s Discipleship Problem: How to Fix the Seeker-driven Church I appreciate the honest admission and accessment here. This excites me more. ‘Is our society broken? Yes, I think it is’…

Being agents of transformation Revisiting “ambition” … can we be ambitious? “… No, what we need in the Church is not less ambition, but more. We are charged with the most ambitious calling of them all: to be agents of God’s all-transforming love to the world. … it would be too easy and high-minded simply…

Photo Series I : Germany Vs. China – Liu Yang Photo Series II : Germany Vs. China – Liu Yang Photo Series III : Germany Vs. China – Liu Yang HT: Next Gener.Asian Church Let me pick four which struck me: On Time: Attitudes to Anger: Wait in a Queue: Children: Burma’s Monks: Ethics is…

5 tips for blogging sermons effectively Thanks Dean … great advice. I laughed when I read: “9 yummy fruits of the spirit to nourish your walk”  Everything Must Change: Part 1 Everything Must Change: Part 2 Everything Must Change: Part 3 starting with me? … Thanks Alan Mann for the review. Preaching fashion: Minister advises…

Divergent and convergent thinking timely … and the the interplay between them is emergent thinking? The gift of bureaucracy Bureaucracy a gift? The conversation in this post seems to model divergent and convergent thinking … “Whether we like it or not, hierarchy and its sibling command & control, are here to stay. That doesn’t mean…

Integrity versus convenience My friend KJ John from OHMSI  says the word for him the next 50 years is “Integrity”.  Here’s a uncompromising quote to stir conversation: “Integrity is a lot like being pregnant. Either you’re pregnant, or you aren’t. There’s no middle ground. It’s the same with integrity. Either you’re behaving with integrity, or…

 How To Live Local: Creating Your Two Mile Map If the weather is cooler here, I might actually try this … but the idea is what’s worth thinking through and adapting here. The Pathologisation of Muslims in Europe  This reminded me of my last visit to Germany and spending one night at a “youth camp”…

Faith Communities in a Civil Society – Christian Perspectives Being more in touch with Civil society really has brought about some unexpected changes in my own pilgrimage. This piece is timely for yesterday and tomorrow. “On September 11th, 1906, Mohandas Gandhi addressed a meeting of some 3,000 people in the Empire Theatre in Johannesburg to…

Atonement row gets personal as Evangelical partnership splits It’s a pity this has to happen … but church history does repeat it self. At least, there’s not physical smoke under Steve’s feet. But then … Christian responses to Islam, Islamism and ‘Islamic terrorism’ Now here’s a good start .. we mustn’t lump everyone together too…