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I’m reading a book on Christian Leadership at the moment. It’s called ‘Leading With A Limp’, by Dan Allender. I started reading it last week. And this week, the whole Brian Houston/Hillsong saga blew up in our faces. I say ‘our faces’ because for years, Hillsong has been untouchable, immutable, carved in stone as THE […]

I took a rare moment today to see what was happening in Facebook land. I’ve been off there for months, with no real idea about who has been doing what. But every so often I take a sneak peek, and this was one of those times.I scrolled through the various posts, when two items caught […]

This one has been bubbling around inside my head for quite a few years now. It started about 10 or 11 years ago, but has been brought to the forefront of my thinking by reading Scott McKnight’s ‘The Kingdom Conspiracy’.  There’s a chapter in there that talks about the Roman Emperor Constantine, and the effect […]

Just the title of this post will, I’m sure, have people reading further. Well the dust has settled, the furore has died down and the issue is sorted. Mark Driscoll will not be coming to the Hillsong Conference. Even after his very public removal from ministry and the demise of Mars Hill church, it seems […]

On the weekend I got an email from the Australian Christian Lobby. I get regular emails from them and other Christian political groups, telling me about the latest struggle in their fight against abortion, euthanasia, same sex marriage etc (I’ve never subscribed to their websites, yet somehow they seem to have obtained my email address, […]

Found this quote last night and thought it worth sharing… Inspection stickers used to have printed on the back ‘Drive carefully – the life you save may be your own’. That is the wisdom of men in a nutshell. What God says, on the other hand, is ‘The life you save is the life you […]

In my early years if you had asked me about congregational government I would have pretty much stood up and defended the idea – in principle anyway. I would have gone to Bible passages like Acts 7 and 15 and 1 Pet. 2 to support the argument. But over the last few years I’ve begun […]

In case you missed it, Rob Bell has written a book! ‘No, really!’ I hear you exclaim in mock amazement. It seems that there isn’t a Christian in the world who hasn’t got an opinion on it. Some have read the book, most (I suspect) have not and never will. But that won’t stop them […]

Editorial: This is something I encountered some time ago, I thought it worth posting here. I wonder if anyone else has felt the same way – and been honest enough to admit it? He looked at me with a sort of sheepish grin as he said it. He knew how it sounded, he’d been a […]