Just read a great post over at Chuch Warnock’s Confessions of a small-church pastor. He talked about being true to your church and its history, personality, and memory. One of the big mistakes he made as a new fresh faced young Pastor was to come in and change everything in the church and he tried [...]

Perhaps I overreacted yesterday, but I was watching TV with my kids and an advert came on for a DVD collection. There is nothing unusual in that, but this one was about the serial killer Ivan Millat and how he went about stalking his “targets” and what he did to them. I was irate to [...]

Recently in a post I touched on feeling like I was in the middle of God’s will at the moment. Yesterday at church I was talking to one of my great mates about it. I shared that it feels like I am in a boat on a lake and that when God takes me to [...]

I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on what my number one responsibility is as a minister. Is it preaching, teaching, praying for people, visitation, counseling people, community outreach or helping the poor? As I have reflected on this the Lord has been prompting from all directions with one particular verse – Mark 12:30. I have [...]

Something the Lord placed on my heart last weekend was to take up a salvation offering at the end of my message. What I mean by salvation offering is asking the congregation to write down the names of people they are praying for to be saved. The list of people might include family, friends, workmates [...]