When profiteering replaces prophecy as the outcome for the creative mouthpieces of our churches, then we lose our voice in the world.
The Clutter and The Call: Artists and the Church
Sermon Notes – 7 October 2018 – Blessed are the Poor in Spirit: Matthew 5:3
God meets with people right at the end of their ropes. He stands to meet us right at the end of the runway of our own capabilities and self-assuredness.
Sermon Notes – 28 October 2018 – Stay Thirsty (Matthew 5:6)
This week we reach a beatitude that at first seems to make no sense. It seems to make no sense because it again flies in the face of the common wisdom of that day and the common wisdom of today. But, it also seems self-defeating and borderline contradictory as a statement. In essence, Jesus is going to say that the dissatisfied will be the most satisfied.
Sermon Notes – 2 September 2018 – We Love the Church (Vision Series)
“There’s nobody who doesn’t have problems with the church, because there’s sin in the church. But there’s no other place to be a Christian…” – E Peterson.
Sermon Notes – 5 August 2018 – Matthew 3:13-17
The Baptism of Jesus shows us what total submission and surrender looks like. The Baptism of Jesus shows us what Jesus will do to secure our righteousness. The Baptism of Jesus shows us what the perfect, loving community of the Trinity is like.
10 Team Leadership Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
What follows then are ten principles of team leadership that I have learned over the last decade, and as the title suggests, these were learned through the hard lessons of disappointing people and then just trying again. In other words, I failed in these areas, and so learned more through failure than through success, which is how a lot of learning seems to happen. I hope they are helpful.
When You Immigrate You Also Emigrate: Lessons in How To Do Both Well
What we have realized though is that to arrive somewhere is simultaneously to leave somewhere else, and that in order to be immigrants to somewhere you also have to be emigrants from somewhere else. Our desire therefore hasn’t just been to be good arrivers in a new place, but also to be good leavers of our previous place.
Black Panther: A Review by Bat Manyika
As my wife and I walked back to the parking lot after the movie, we saw people wearing colourful African print dresses, colourful headcovers, colourful African shirts with matching trousers. These were people from every race, age group, and continent. They were buzzing with joy, just hanging around the foyer, their bond stronger because they had been to Wakanda and back.
“It Wears Me Out” – The Painful Pursuit of People Pleasing
Turning 39, getting a traffic ticket, listening to Radiohead, reading Esther, and how it all reminds me that I forget the gospel.
