The Good Stuff of 2012

It stuck me that my ‘Unresolved’ post was almost entirely negative.  It was all about what I didn’t do in 2012, what I failed to achieve. Well, I’m not going to let 2012 pass without adding some balance because in 2012 two brilliant, never to be repeated things happened… The Olympic Park Run In March Read More …

unresolved

Last year I posted some running goals… I will run the 5 mile Olympic Park Run in March in under 40 minutes. I will run my first marathon in Edinburgh in May in under 4 hours 10 minutes. I will run the Great Scottish Run half marathon in Glasgow in September in under 2 hours. Read More …

A Christmas Sermon

Incarnation.  Taking on flesh.  God slipping into skin.  Or that wonderful image from John’s Gospel of the Word moving into the neighbourhood. What a amazing image.  Isn’t it? It’s hard to get your head around it though, that God would bother.  That God would be so vulnerable, so tiny, so frail, so dependant. There are Read More …

Missing Generations (part 7)

What’s missing today is a high-quality discourse on rethinking the design and evolution of the entire system from scratch. The quality of the results produced by any system depends on the quality of awareness from which the people in the system operate. (Otto Scharmer) Since writing the first batch of posts on Missing Generations I’ve Read More …

Missing Generations (part 6)

How people learn has changed. I talked about learning preferences in part 1.  This video shows just how much teaching and learning has moved on since I was at school. I wonder how much church has recognised and embraced these changes?  Or, if the church has actually been at the forefront of them? I see Read More …

Missing Generations (part 5)

What spiritual practices do you do? Eh?  What’s a spiritual practice? I wrote in my chapter of Inside Verdict that the church isn’t very good at helping members keep the promises they make.  I promised to read the Bible, to pray and to join with other believers in worship. Reading the Bible is difficult.  So Read More …