In That Leaders Might Last, chapter ten, there is a chapter titled ‘A Courageous Love’. In it I wrote of the confrontational nature of Jesus, fearlessly causing trouble in a great many places - all...
It may be that no one actually reads this - but here are some thoughts on a few utopian ideologies, based off what I emailed to someone today. This may be a bit too heavy...
One of the core values of this ministry is that partnership is the way forward. This is simply to say that through working together we can accomplish more than were we to stay only in...
The great commission is to ‘go’ to ‘make disciples’ of people from all people groups on this planet (Matthew 28:18-20). Sometimes these two things (‘go’ and ‘make disciples’) are seen as the (a) ‘evangelism’ and...
That impossibilities do not exist is one of the core values of this ministry. What this means is that the projects that this ministry undertakes will not be determined by what has or has not...
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As I understand it, culture shock isn’t really a ‘shock’ like an electric shock. Rather it is that niggling ongoing adjustment to changes when there are a lot of them. Take for instance this morning. I...
In setting up this website I put a catch-phrase under the ministry’s name: Shining Lights.co - Helping the Church see afresh what a great ‘product‘ it has. It was suggested by some that the use...
(Like a mini-message - this is what we included in our Christmas e-letter to friends and family this year. Its a bit long, but could encourage faith and hope :-) Why we celebrate the birth of...
The world has changed, and in particular the way people think (as summarised in the previous blog on this topic by Dr David Geisler). For us, as Christian believers, this is effecting how we share...