Last Sunday we looked at the second half of Romans 7. I’m not intending to use this post to defend my position- suffice it to say that I’m not convinced Paul is describing the normal Christian life. Regardless of whether you agree or not it seems to me that our three conclusions are important: Sin […]
Over the last couple of weeks I have been preaching through Romans 7. In each sermon there has been material that has ended up on the cutting room floor as it were. I am planning to write up that material in a couple of posts this week- and I hope that as I do that […]
My intended audience for this blog is the church at Woody Road (though I know it is read by some from outside the church). So occasionally I like to explain our thinking as leaders on a certain subject of particular relevance to the church here. A while back I wrote on our approach to sermon […]
To think in a right way about the Christian life involves changing the way we look at things normally. Our culture relies on people getting what they deserve in their wages so it is hard to get our heads round the fact that God works on the basis if grace in giving us what we […]
Yesterday at Woodstock Road Baptist we had our first Sunday in temporary venues whilst building work takes place in our usual premises for the next six to nine months. There are one or two things that we need to tweak for future weeks but, for the most part, I was thankful for how it went. […]
Over the years I have developed a pattern that I have found helpful in keeping going in pastoral ministry: the monthly away day. It was recommended to me back in my days with UCCF. Once a month I travel to somewhere nice (the venues all tend to be near coasts!)where I have a good Christian […]
One of the most discomforting of Scriptural statistics is that when the Lord Jesus speaks to the churches in Revelation 2-3 five of the seven have something of which they need to repent. It is a helpful caution for us against the complacency that says we must be OK. It is a reminder as to […]
August always feels like a quiet month in the life of the church with many people away. September is likely to be very different… There are two big issues for us as a church in the month of September. The first is that we will be moving out of our current premises in order for […]
I promise this is the last of my contributions on the subject. However, if you want more Olympic reflections then you could try the following from Neil Powell, Krish Kandiah and John Stevens. Towards the end of the Olympics, most conversations turned towards the subject of legacy. What will be the long term impact of London […]
Inspire a Generation. There was a cartoon in one of the newspapers with the motto of London 2012 as the subtitle. It was a picture of a couple watching the Olympics. The husband says, “This really is inspiring. We must get a bigger television.” I can sympathize- I suspect that the part of my body […]