a sideways glance

Monday, April 12, 2021

So, what is the normal church that we are returning to?

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 Our church began working its way through the early chapters of Acts earlier this year and yesterday arrived at 2:42-47. It was my turn to p...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Soundtrack to the weirdest year...

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 I haven't done this for a while, but I thought 2020 merited a brief comment on my playlist during this weirdest of years. I have spent ...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Tuning into the voice that matters

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This began life as an advent sermon on Isaiah 40:1-11 earlier this month. Then an edited version was published at A Broken Church, run by go...
Sunday, May 10, 2020

Thoughts about caterpillars and butterflies in a time of plague

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This morning the leader of our zoom gathering had planned to start with Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, familiar words about everything happening in its...
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Thursday, April 02, 2020

hearing something new in familiar lines

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I don't know about you, but as I have been working away in splendid isolation, I have been rediscovering gems in my music collection. Of...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

Modern monetary theory and the God of abundance

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There's been a lot of talk of late about how governments will recoup the enormous sums they are putting into the economy to keep people ...
Thursday, February 07, 2019

The congregation as good news?

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So, here I am contemplating a Devon rain-scape, the low sky a single shade of grey, drizzle making the pavements shimmer, and I’m thinking ...
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I'm a passionate follower of Jesus. I'm a husband, a dad and grand father. I pastor a church in a London suburb and teach New Testament at Spurgeon's College. I'm the author of nine books, most recently Paul and Poverty (Grove books 2014), The World of the Early Church: A Social History (Lion Hudson 2011), Discovering Galatians (IVP 2007) and Building a Better Body (Authentic 2007) and five other books
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