Archive for the ‘Random Thoughts’ Category

Boys day out – and war

Posted: 6 October, 2008 in Life, Random Thoughts

Took the boys to the Imperial War Museum on Saturday while Amanda was at a one day conference in Nottingham. London may be an expensive place to live but there’s also a lot of very cool stuff available for free (although it’s nice that the kids are still at the age where even getting on [...]

Here are some sermon thoughts about reaching the world through cities: Mark Driscoll in London His main point is that cultural change is birthed and spreads out from cities, and that through reaching a city like London then you can reach the whole world. It’s pretty encouraging for me as that’s certainly what we’re aiming [...]

Getting Creative

Posted: 21 June, 2008 in Life, Random Thoughts, The Church

Here’s one of my favourite performances (KT Tunstall playing on Jools Holland’s show): A couple of thoughts: You can get great results with less than you’d think – as long as you’re willing to think outside the box Most of the great musicians are outside the church and it’s about time the church started figuring out how to reach [...]

Here’s the chorus from a song I’ve just been listening to: Majesty, majesty. Your grace has found me just as I am: Empty-handed but alive in your hands Majesty, majesty. Forever I am changed by your love In the presence of your majesty and a quote from a book I’ve been reading: There is nothing [...]

I was just looking through some notes from a sermon I preached a little while ago and came across this quote from Dwight L. Moody. I’ll let it speak for itself: If only we could make the world believe that we loved them there would be fewer empty churches, and a smaller proportion of our population [...]