Why I seek your partnership in prayer (personal reflection)
- - - - - - - - - - - - Why I seek your partnership in prayer - - - - - - - - - - - - To share my heart...
23 January, 2011
Gospel Tag
What on earth is REVERSE culture shock? (personal reflection)
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...
17 January, 2011
Is the gospel a ‘product’?
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...
11 January, 2011
Today we fly (a personal reflection)
(Pic: Jon, Ethan and friend Janelle - in a ‘playground’ helicopter) After about eight and a half years in Singapore, today we return to NZ for a new chapter in our lives. As I awake (miraculously...
01 December, 2010
Why we are leaving pastoral ministry and Singapore (personal reflection)
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05 November, 2010
Book launch: ‘That Leaders Might Last’
Yesterday was an exciting day for me. My first book was officially launched, being published by Campus Crusade for Christ, Singapore (and the place looked good, thanks to my wife, heather, plus the food good,...
05 November, 2010
Ephesians 4 and the local Church
As a brief addition to the previous blog, which addressed the ‘macro’ perspective of the five ‘offices’ discussed, I reflected that at a local Church level this has significance also (a brief reflection here only). If...
26 October, 2010
What is it that the Church of today lacks?
Preamble What an interesting question. I’m sure there could be a good variety of answers (I may request answers from ministry friends on this question to place in this blog at a later date). Here are two answers 1....
17 October, 2010
Peter’s gospel preaching and our shame
What kind of things could we say when we preach the gospel? What things should we say? And how should we say them? An easy answer is found in Acts 2 and 3, looking at two...
09 October, 2010