As is my blogging custom at this time of the year, here is a list of books I’ve read during 2010! Here goes….in no particular order….(ahem…some of these should come with a health warning!) (And in case you are interested, a link to 2009′s books: here) – Brafman, O. “The Starfish and the Spider: The … More Books 2010

As is my blogging custom at this time of the year, here is a list of books I’ve read during 2010! Here goes….in no particular order….(ahem…some of these should come with a health warning!)  (And in case you are interested, a link to 2009’s books: here)   – Brafman, O.  “The Starfish and the Spider: … More Books 2010

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a  summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads ‘This blog is on fire!’ Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog … More 2010 blog review

General Clifton has, at various points in his Generalship called the Army world to prayer, particularly for causes of justice and peace. You may or may not know that he, in conjunction with Lt Colonel Janet Munn in her role as Spiritual Life thingymajig (sorry, don’t know her proper title….slightly out the loop!) issued the … More Call to non-stop 24/7 prayer

I remember Dr Rory McKenzie saying in a Practical Theology class, back in 1998 at bible college, that ‘the unreflective life is not worth living’ and I have remembered that like a bolt of lightening these last ten or so years since I heard the words coming from his mouth.  This, in many ways, is … More Taking Shape

Frank Viola in his book ‘Reimagining Church’ highlights that there were four different types of meetings evidenced in the pages of the NT.  They were: Apostolic Meetings Evangelistic Meetings Decision-making Meetings Church Meetings Apostolic meetings were those where the apostles would ‘preach’ to an interactive audience.  ‘Preaching’ was rarely monologius, mainly interactive.  The aim of … More Types of Early Church meetings

I found this good article (below) which presents the model of ‘open participatory meetings’ very well in a condensed version.  Enjoy reading.  I will do a midrash on it, adding my comments on it over the next week or so.   Additionally, you might want to look at the follow up to ‘Pagan Christianty’ by Frank … More Participatory Church Meeting

Before resigning as a Salvation Army officer, I wrote a series of articles which were my reflections on leadership.  If you read my previous blog, you may remember it.  If not, you can read it here as it was published in this SA journal.  It was a culmination of years of ‘working out’ the deep … More My shock

Is Christianity merely an intellectual agreement with a set of propositional truths?  Is it merely a warm tingly feeling and the presence of comfort and peace?   is it building one’s life and diary around the activity of the church?  Of course not.  Having said that, I recently heard a man who had been representing … More Christianity Lite

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