As I already mentioned (was it here or facebook?), last Sunday 17th October was the 15 year anniversary of my conversion. Let me tell you a story…. Faith, God, church was never really a part of our upbringing and to be fair it wasn’t really a part of my parents upbringing either. My mum and … More The beginning
Ok, so I’m about as garbage at not blogging as I am at blogging. Massive failure on the not blogging front. Well, that lasted for a whole few days. Hmm. I was having a bad day! The simple problem is just the whole transition thing… I’m disorientated, bound to experience the odd bit of confusion … More Massive non-blogging failure
I need to confess that my passion for blogging has waned somewhat of late. Previously, a large part of my purpose in blogging was simply to add a voice to the Salvation Army blog scene with the dear hope of re-kindling something of a passion somewhere. I guess to one degree or the next it … More Stepping Down
One of the things I get asked incessantly these days is “are you settling in?” I guess I hear it so often because I’m part of a big collection of people here at Trinity. When I hear it I need to remember that it’s very likely that this person probably hasn’t asked me before and … More Settled?
I remember a few months back, up in Aberdeen, chatting to Peter Farmer who leads a little movement called Mission Britain. Peter has a heart to see missional ‘simple churches’ spring up in small movements across the United Kingdom. Due to the stuff we were doing up there, he came to chat and walk round … More The New Open Air Meeting
So, how does it all feel a few months the other side of the biggest crisis of my life since my conversion? Tempting to say come back to me in a year and I’ll let you know. But seriously, its still devastating. There is no getting away from that. The tempation to perform a post-mortem … More Under the tree
Just some notes I took listening to the Nomad podcast where Mike Frost.————— Purpose of church – not as simple as mission or being mission centred. At the very centre or core of what the church is is the responsibility to worship, build community, disciple people and serve the world all as part of mission. … More Nomad Podcast notes – Mike Frost
Some of you will know the work of the author Dallas Willard. My first confession is that I haven’t read any of his books this far. I started reading Divine Conspiracy some time ago but never got anywhere. He isn’t easy to read, even for seasoned readers. I do, however, want to begin getting to … More Renovation of the Heart
For centuries the reaction to heresy has been dealt with using some pretty severe reactions. The Christendom church were particularly ‘efficient’ in some pretty gruesome punishments for any theological deviants. Pretty much everything that threatened the system was quite literally banished. Its easy to make the arguement that it was simply to protect the purity … More Embracing Heresy
I remember, some years ago, preaching a sermon on Ruth….about the wheat famine in Bethlehem, her moving away, and upon hearing rumour of their being a harvest due, she returns to Bethlehem (literally, the House of Bread) with her new family. My colleague preached on the passage a few weeks ago and it brought it … More Rumours around cold ovens
Andrew S M Clark 