This week I received an e-mail from my friend Chris Skilton: I have never preached from a full text nor
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Ministry Stages
When I was a young minister in my late 20s if a meeting at church finished by 9.30 pm, then
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At our last leadership team weekend away our speaker was Terry Calkin, the pastor of a Green Lane Christian Centre,
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The four irreducible necessities of life are water, shelter, oxygen and food. However, life would be pretty limited if that
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‘The Reverend’ is the style most often used as a prefix to the names of Christian ministers. It is for instance
Continue readingShould We Keep Services Shorter?
According to Jonathan Gledhill, the Anglican Bishop of Lichfield, church services have become too long; he recommends that clergy should
Continue readingA Place to Belong
Over the years I have experimented with a variety of ‘strap lines’ for the church. At one stage, for instance,
Continue readingExperimenting With Church Matters
According to the Oxford Compact English Dictionary, an experiment is ‘a course of action tentatively adopted without being sure of
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