Matt Glover, freelance cartoonist and pastor, is an advocate for same-sex unions. His church, Lilydale Baptist, is in turmoil. They’ve only just found out via this gay website or maybe this one? A church meeting to deal with the issue was cancelled a few days ago. A newspaper report states confidently that Pastor Matt has [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2011
The list
25 November, 2011 – 4:50 AM
Let’s drop in to the home of Cornelius (Acts 10). Cornelius and his extended family and friends have just come to know Christ through Peter, the reluctant missionary. It’s late at night and the next morning Peter and his companions are leaving. Peter hopes to return in the next few months, but there is no [...]
Investing in perspective
23 November, 2011 – 6:32 PM
Every day there is more bad economic news out of Europe. Is this the big crash we’ve all been fearing? No one knows, but it reminds me of an experience just after the last big crash and some implications for how we approach mission. Just after the crash of 2008. I visited my dad concerned [...]
Operation World: 7th edition
22 November, 2011 – 11:50 PM
There is a new edition of Operation World, the definitive prayer guide for every nation and people group on earth. Here’s a few interesting facts from the first twenty five pages. The world’s population nearly doubled between 1970 and 2010. 63.2% of the worlds Christians are in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. About 10% of [...]
Movements in 60 minutes
22 November, 2011 – 3:11 AM
One of my workshop sessions from Exponential 2011.
Leading change
16 November, 2011 – 1:55 PM
A number of years ago I developed a program for denominational teams on fueling church planting movements. We met six times over two years for two to three days each time. Each time we met for two to three days and tackled a topic related to applying church planting movement principles: vision for church planting [...]
Showing up
14 November, 2011 – 8:46 AM
A young Chinese girl bounded into our English conversation club last Sunday for the first time. We’ll call her Heather. We got chatting and I learned her aunt in China led an unofficial house church. Heather attended once but found it boring. We’d just finished a simple discovery bible study with a small group of [...]
Moving beyond what we can do
11 November, 2011 – 7:40 PM
A few years ago I visited friends who had chosen to live and work in the slums of a major South American city. I was deeply impressed with their commitment to serve among the poor as a family, despite the high levels of crime and disease. They were a living witness to God’s presence in [...]
A time to speak. A time to let the scriptures speak.
4 November, 2011 – 6:11 PM
I was asked recently to speak at a church gathering of people recovering from drug and alcohol additions. The safe thing to do would have been to pull out one of my well worn messages. Instead I took a risk. I broke people into groups of three to five and told them to read the [...]
Saving Europe
4 November, 2011 – 10:13 AM
Finally, an explanation of the European crisis that makes sense.
