A few weeks ago, I wrote a series of meandering posts looking at the relationship between the Gospel and culture. However, since then, I’ve come up with a metaphor which I find helpful (and which almost certainly is not original) in thinking about how the Gospel, culture and language inter-relate. When software developers produce new […]
Month: May 2008
A Warning to Preachers
Facing a weekend during which I will give one presentation, one seminar and two sermons, this warning from Asbo Jesus is a timely one.
What is Mission?
Hamo has been moonlighting on the Catalytic blog and has come up with a couple of superb posts. Try this for size… I believe there is a gap between what we think mission and evangelism is and what they are in reality. Often there is this notion of ‘attempting great things for God’, ‘leading many […]
Peter Kirk has tagged me with a rather interesting meme which asks rather more difficult and meaningful questions than the normal ‘what is you favourite ice-cream?’ thing that goes the rounds. There are four questions and I might get round to answering all of them. 1. if the nature of god is omnipotent, benevolent, and […]
What is the Bible?
I was doing a short session for one of the ETP translation courses this morning and I had the group think through the question of what the Bible is. After a number of questions and a little prompting they came up with the definition below. I think it’s rather cool. The recorded story of God’s […]
Andrew Trimble: Following Jesus
A few days ago I said that my impossible dream was to play rugby for England – something I clearly will never do. Andrew Trimble, a student at Belfast Bible College, has done something almost as good as play for England – he plays rugby for Ireland. This six minute video shows Andrew contrasting the […]
Blog Changes
As I couldn’t think of anything useful to write today, I upgraded the blog template. I quite like this look, though the flash slide show at the top needs changing a little as it is off centre. I’ve also changed the plugin I was using for the slide show and picture gallery, which gives a […]
Shallowness Personified
The number of blogs that I feel I should keep up with is growing even faster than the contents of my email inbox. Thanks to Hamo for pointing me to Mark Sayers blog which is subtitled Commentary from the borderlands between faith and popular culture. It’s full of good thoughtful stuff and I’d encourage you […]
It’s AD 30 All Over Again
Don’t take my word for it but watch this superb talk on the way in which the growth of the world church mirrors the book of Acts. It’s a 45 minute talk by Reggie McNeal and is amazingly funny and even more informative. It makes a very good counterpoint to my earlier posts on World […]
World Theology
In a paper writing on the changes in World Mission from1910-2010 Andrew Walls writes: The Western theological academy is at present not well placed for leadership in the new situation. It has been too long immersed in its local concerns, and often unaware of the transformation that has taken place in the Church. It is […]