Mark Thompson on leadership
Anglican Church League have yummy mandarines in their logo. They also have Mark Thompson’s useful thoughts on Christian leadership, noting just how subversive it is — something we were getting at earlier.
Headship (Are you a man she can trust?)
Part 1, part 2, part 3 Marriage is a microcosm of human society. A key aspect of this micro level is headship in marriage.
The Weakness Series
One of the great things about doing a ministry traineeship for two years before coming to college as I did is that the ‘real’ experience of full-time ministry provides you with plenty of questions! One of my questions that I’ve raised before (here and here) is how to deal with […]
Why train others?
Arthur and I have been having an ongoing conversation with someone at our church about training others for ministry. We’ve all agreed that we need to raise up others for ministry, but we’ve been discussing whether we need to train them as well. What’s the role of the Holy Spirit? […]
The Last
Saving the best until last was a lesson I learned very early on in my childhood when I’d eaten all the yummy things on my plate and was left with a pile of mashed potato. So in my SWOT Vac I motivated myself for Old Testament and New Testament by […]
New AUS church planting network (2)
Issue 1 This one came up during the gathering. Many young Aussie ministers seem mad keen on church planting, yet they are really just in love with the idea of church planting. They aren’t ready to make the courageous, all-out sacrifices required to actually plant and grow churches. An […]
New AUS church planting network (1)
This is the latest instalment in the development of a new Australian church planting network. Five guys from around the country have been working on it. Earlier this year, they visited the Acts 29 Boot Camp in Seattle to talk with Mark Driscoll and observe the Acts 29 assessment process, […]
Meet Jesus at uni 