musings on leadership in ministry
There’s a tension in youth work between process and product. We talk more and more about ‘outcomes’ and ‘results’ and ‘objectives’ which are all about the product, the end result. We are more and more scared of process because it’s hard to measure and define. It’s easy to make Easter all about the product. But Read More …
All day people have been coming and going from the Roman Catholic church at the bottom of our street. They come with clean faces. They leave marked with ash. It seems to me a shame that the ‘reformed’ church has never quite embraced Lent. There is something very rich about discipline and something very deep Read More …
I have a question. It might be Rob Bell’s question too but I don’t know because his book isn’t out until the end of March. Actually I have lots of questions but I’ll try to keep to this one: How does grace work with heaven and hell? Let me explain my problem. God loves us. Read More …
I was watching an old TED talk by Seth Godin yesterday where he was talking about getting people’s attention. His primary context is marketing but I think what he was talking about transfers into pretty much any context where you want people to engage or listen or pay attention. His advice: Be remarkable. Of course Read More …
The second pilot of Spill the Beans is here for Lent 2011. Spill the Beans is a resource pack for age group learning and all-age worship written by a few people in Clydebank, Blantyre, Ayr, Edinburgh, Glasgow and other places who all have the same sort of situations in church of smaller sunday schools and Read More …
On Sunday I preached on Jeremiah 31: 27-34. I think that had I not listened to Rob Bell’s sermon podcast on Ezekiel 18 I’d have preached about something else… but the idea of ‘sour grapes’ and ‘paying for the sins of our fathers’ got me. ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth Read More …
The Mission and Discipleship Council of the Church of Scotland invites you to the beautiful Paisley Abbey to explore ways of doing worship that celebrates and nourishes our whole life together as well as engage people who are not connected with us. Main Speaker: Doug Gay, lecturer in Practical Theology at Glasgow University There will Read More …