musings on leadership in ministry
On Sunday I will preside at communion for the first time. I’m a little nervous, a little excited and a little scared in case I make a mess of it! I’m not a minister. I’m a youth worker. I do quite a bit of preaching but I have no formal theological training. The fact that Read More …
Join the discussion on what the bible is and how we should approach it with Matt and Russell.
Barak Obama, candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination in the USA, made this speech on Religion and Politics. It’s well worth watching.
I’ve uploaded this morning’s sermon to here. The elections for the Scottish Parliament take place on Thursday so I decided that politics and religion should indeed mix…
Matt and Russell consider: 6. Faithful interpretation of scripture invites and presupposes participation in the community brought into being by God’s redemptive action — the church. Scriptural interpretation is properly an ecclesial activity whose goal is to participate in the reality of which the text speaks by bending the knee to worship the God revealed Read More …
Part 5 of Russell and Matt’s journey through a nine part thesis is worth a look. 5. The four canonical Gospels narrate the truth about Jesus.The Gospels, read within the matrix of scripture from Genesis to Revelation, convey the truth about the identity of Jesus more faithfully than speculative reconstructions produced by modernist historical methods. Read More …
What makes a church? Is it a building? No. Is it people? Kind of. The sol cafe in Edmonton, Canada, have a manifesto that is worth a look. They start with this: This is an attempt to capture a bit of what the sol café is all about. It will not capture everything. It won’t even Read More …