It is all too common for Christians to attempt to do justice to the scriptural narrative by listening to it, learning from it, and attempting to extract a way of viewing the world from it. But the narrative itself is asking us to approach it in a much more radical way. It is inviting us [...]
This starts a series on welcoming people into our church community. We are exploring what is working well, and what we can do to improve what we are doing. If you are part of our community, we would love your comments. If you aren’t part of our church, any comments that can help us would [...]
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Following my last couple of posts (1 & 2), reflecting on the Lakeland Outpouring, and trying to learn some lessons by contrasting to the Toronto "blessing". This post I move on to the role of the media…
Media
Toronto, in the early 90’s, was pre-internet, and in the UK at least, pre-Christian TV. News spread of [...]
I am exploring the differences between the Lakeland Outpouring and The Toronto Blessing. I am hoping that we can learn some lessons, hold on to some of the good things, and to avoid in the future some of mistakes that have caused such a mess in the recent weeks. My first post will give [...]
This is from Mr. David, from our congregation…
Some people pray for revival and imagine that ’signs and wonders’ will declare that when it happens, but I was rolling around the thought that maybe we are part of a revival right now - right as we speak - and one that is all the better [...]
A few weeks after the sad news of Todd Bentley marital problems, I have been wanting to write some reflections on Lakeland, and compare some of the differences between "The Lakeland Outpouring" and "The Toronto Blessing".
There has been much written about Lakeland. In the UK there has been a lot of stuff said, much [...]
As an a postscript to the post the other day, when my inquisitive 4 year old asked about illness, he announced as we were driving to our church gathering on Sunday:
“Mum and Dad, you know what God is doing?”
Well I was about to host the church gathering, so I was pretty intrigued at that level. [...]
Apparently, I am an “Emergent Village Idiot“.
I only came across the post on a blog today, when someone clicked through and the incoming link came up on my statcounter. The actual post is a year old, but I didn’t clock it then. Providential? Maybe…
So they are quoting my bio, as evidence that I am [...]
Following the previous post about my visit to the house of Cantle, the website for Daybreak has now gone live. All the detail, timetable, and instructions for booking can be found there.
I really recommend the weekend course (14th - 16th November). For Christian courses, £60 can seem more than usual, but as Jim normally [...]
I have just had a lovely few hours at the House of Cantle, with Jim McNeish today. It was a beautiful drive out of the city, up to Killin, when Pippa and I got engaged nearly 11 years ago now! Jim has bought an old hotel near there, done it up, and made it [...]
