24 books read in 2024. Highlights: — The Jubilee Gospel (great read for those wanting to understand the name @jubileeplus.bsky.social) — Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes And yes, I read my own book! (In a studio, recording the audiobook, out 10 Jan 2025 with SPCK.) #TisMercyAll

Read what happened when, 45 years ago, a man holding a frozen chicken knocked on the door of Rob & Dianne Parsons’ home. Beautiful. Featured in the Christmas edition of The Week. 🎄

"The most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and the poorest people on Earth." — #JimmyCarter

I’d highly recommend keeping a 5-year journal. I’m 3.5 years in and it brings me so much joy as I look back with wonder and amazement at what Jesus has done in me and around me. The Lord has dealt bountifully with me! (Ps. 116:7) #TisMercyAll

Yes. This is a really good point. Why do we have this odd double-standard? (I confess, I have it too.) A great, brief, thought-provoking, helpful post. www.premierchristianity.com/opinion/3-wa...

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Pastor: that’s where God was carrying me

Our top 5 books of the year 🏆 We've reviewed nearly 100 of the latest Christian books in 2024. Here, our Reviews editor John Woods shares en's top five. Congrats @danitreweek.bsky.social, John Lennox, Rebecca McLaughlin, @natwillnatter.bsky.social, Peter Williams e-n.org.uk/features/our...

Excellent. Well done, Natalie. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Wow, what a joy and honour to be among Evangelicals Now’s top books of the year! Thanks so much. 🥰🙌🏼 www.e-n.org.uk/features/our... @evangelicalsnow.bsky.social

Cheapest I’ve seen ‘Tis Mercy All online, for anyone still doing their Christmas shopping! #TisMercyAll

If your Christmas is characterised by abundance rather than lack, what can you give, share or do to make someone else’s day a cause for joy instead of sorrow? www.premierchristianity.com/columnists/t...

“The love of God is the blazing fire that purifies us, remakes us, and sets right all that is broken in us and in the world… And it is this love that is coming for us.” — Tish Harrison Warren #Advent

This beautiful retelling of the Christmas story features many precious friends (watch ‘til the end). 🎄 youtu.be/bAhzI6bI5WI

Man, I love this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Ol...

“Faith is wagering our lives on the hope that we have, trusting it enough to act on it.” — Tish Harrison Warren

Well, this is exciting — my first audiobook is coming out in January! It was so much fun to record it!

“There’s a God-shaped hole in every human heart. If it doesn’t get filled with something noble and elevated, modern society will quickly pump it full of garbage.” — Jonathan Haidt

“Joy is the gigantic secret of the Christian.” — GK Chesterton

How is the relationship between euthanasia and social isolation (+ autism & #LD) playing out in mainland Europe right now? This is the tragic story I began my #LD & Poverty seminar with at #CTCC24. (Ian Birrell, The Independent, 7/10/24)

Last night we launched Look Again to 1,000 youth leaders at Youthscape’s national conference — 10 sessions in Luke’s Gospel for 11-18s to understand God’s heart for the vulnerable. Every delegate was given a free copy! Excited to see how God uses it in the lives of young people! 🙌🏼🔥

Last week, we announced the Weightier Matters course launching in the new year. 📅 10 online sessions diving into how we can bring mercy and seek justice for those facing all kinds of poverty buff.ly/4hJPU2s - Sign up buff.ly/3OkRfiB - Video

Discover 19 insights, drawn from people with lived-experience of poverty, helping us rethink church-based social action: buff.ly/4eBCdjb

"Preach with passion and preach with pathos. There are broken-hearted people sitting in front of you and sometimes you would never know it. Bring them to a tender-hearted Saviour." - Alun McNabb

“Christ Jesus has made me his own…” — no sweeter 7 words than these! (Phil. 3:12)

📣 BRAND NEW for 2025! 📣 Jesus said justice and mercy are the “weightier matters” – want to explore that with us next year? If you’re in a Jubilee+ Partner Church, find out more here… buff.ly/4hJPU2s

“Everywhere Jubilee is practised, we will see extravagant generosity through acts of mercy.” — Kim Tan

“When Christians have appreciated and adored God as all-necessary, all- sufficient, all-beautiful, and all-satisfying, they have been awakened and made fruitful. For them, the world is not enough. It’s glory and acclaim pale beside the splendor and allure of Jesus Christ” - Michael Reeves