Category: Church Matters

Looking up friends in New Zealand, I found myself last Saturday invited to the opening of the Whakata Country Retreat,

The other day I was reading an article on ‘The Practice of Preaching and the Spiritual Life of the Preacher’

The high-point for Christian worship must surely be the celebration of the Lord’s Supper. Alas, in many evangelical churches committed

In a context where worship at Corinth could be somewhat chaotic Paul commanded that “all things should be done decently

The writer to the Hebrews describes Jesus as a ‘liturgist’ (leitourgos): as our high priest he is “a minister in

It is hard for people to see the importance of worship when their experience of worship is generally not glorious.

Just the other day my attention was drawn to one of the prayers of St Francis of Assisi:  May the

As I wrote last week, prayers, like Scripture, come alive in a new context. This was certainly my experience when

Prayers, like Scripture, often come alive in a particular context. One such prayer is the so-called serenity prayer written by

Of all the seven deadly sins, sloth’ is the most archaic of names. The dictionary defines sloth as ‘laziness, indolence’.