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Chapter two was only three pages long! Almost another introductory chapter, but this time introducing the themes for the remaining chapters of the book. I’ll only summarize here and leave any reflection for the chapters themselves.
Biddulph points out that while women are surrounded by role models through life, men in general are not. Most of […]

I recently got hold of a copy of Steve Biddulph’s book called Manhood and thought I’d post some of my thoughts on each chapter as I work my way through it. It might take a while with everything else going on at the moment, but it seems interesting so far and will probably become a […]

I tackled Daniel chapter 9 in our evening gathering this week. And while I have really enjoyed working our way through Daniel together, I found this particualr chapter to be difficult. It deals with Daniel’s prayer of confession and repentance, in response to his understanding that the exile in Babylon was soon to end. […]

On Sunday morning, Grant lead us in an exploration of the story of Philip and the Ethiopian official from Acts 8:26-40. The approach Grant took was to view this passage through a missional mindset - what can we learn from this in terms of sharing/being Jesus in our community? Grant suggested a few ideas:
1. The […]

In 2006 we’re going to explore the spiritual disciplines as a community and setting up this blog is part of the preparation for that. the disciplines are not magical things that put us in touch with God, but practices that have been proven with time to put us in the best place possible for […]

My interns are currently reading through Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline. This is one of my favourite books of all time and this is perhaps the fourth or fifth time I’ve gone through in the last few years. Always challenging, always confronting, but always inspirational. Read it if you haven’t!
Anyway, todays chapter for discussion was […]

A cheeky little fella….wonder where he gets that from…?

I spoke at this church on Sunday morning on Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego fom the book of Daniel. I’ve enjoyed telling the story of Daniel and his three friends with the MBC crowd over the last few motnhs and appreciated the opportunity to revisit this story with another group.
Each time I’ve shared from Daniel, I’m […]

Something I hold as one of the most important, and exciting, parts of being part of the Christian community is how God uses all people to be his voice. This is one of the reasons I encourage people to ‘have a go’ at leading a small group study, leading a worship gathering and sharing a […]

My fellow Forge interns and I last night had a great time thinking through the issues of busy-ness and Sabbath rest in the context of missional communities.
We’re all busy. Emerging church, established church or otherwise - we all can fall too easily into the trap of being too busy. But is that wrong? Should we […]