What does being eucharismatic mean or look like? A had a great conversation with the ever generous Jez Field to explore that.

The O Antiphons teach us seven truths about Jesus we will know in full when he returns.

God stooped low in order to lift us up.

If we looked at our tables at Christmastime, would we see the Church?

Advent is a month looking forward to the joy of Christmas. Advent is a month looking forward to judgement. Advent has two faces.

Advent can teach us to wait, and by waiting we can learn to long, and by longing we can encounter joy.

Advent is coming. How can we embrace the season?

Wisdom is embodied, not something that exists in the realms of ideas.

Churches can, accidently, infantilise people. We should attempt to treat people like adults.

What exactly is the so-called Quiet Revival? How should we think about it?

Writing the date should remind you that whatever you're writing it on is part of a grand story that finds its meaning in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

Is England a Christian Nation? In this post I suggest 7 different things that question could mean and how I would respond to each of them.

Wisdom is understanding; it's perceiving reality and living in accordance with it.

I think we should be engaging in symbolic reading of the Bible, but to do that well we need to read in the right direction.

Am I a Christian Nationalist? Unfortunately that term means so many different things, so of which are mainstream evangelical, that answering the question isn't meaningful. I attempt some distinctions in this post.

Christianity is practised at the Table. That is, your table and the Lord's, and practiced in the senses of 'performed' and 'learned.'

Noah's Flood winds creation backwards.

Carrying the whole world in your pocket changes you.

What do we mean when we talk about forgiveness? I argue it could be one of 3 different things.

This summer I watched 11,500 teenagers sit on the floor and be fed red meat from the Bible and lap it up. There's no need to pander: give your people meat. Give them Jesus.

We should the Bible orthogonally. Which is a really good word.

How are we expecting our successors and future church planters to get trained? Have we considered that might require us to sink energy and finance into those that might do that training long before they start doing it?

When someone we respect or who has shaped our thinking 'falls' either morally or intellectually, how should we think about what we learned from them?

I have three fundamental rules for my own preaching. They're always my first port of call for assessing how I did.

What I found when I turned my phone off:

How do we embrace both the order and charismatic life that 1 Corinthians 14 encourages? It has a lot to do with Genesis 1.

Jesus made himself low in order to lift you up.

Maturity will require suffering, one way or another.

How to read (more) books. An old post of mine that challenged me to think again what my reading habits look like in a new phase of life.

Water is thicker than blood; a few thoughts on baptism.

Is your church slow enough to allow people to consider their questions?

The Bible isn't a magic book. Prayer isn't magic. Repentance isn't magic. We live in an age that loves magic, especially in the form of the black glass devices we keep in our pockets, so we tend to forget this.

What does the Bible mean by the phrase 'the land of the living?' I argue it may not mean the same thing it does in English.

"Welcome requires walls"

What does being a eucharismatic look like?

"Once a day dawned dark, the clouds hanging limp like wisps of smoke that clog the lungs after a fire has burned beyond its life..."

A philosophy of ministry in 3 phrases.

Isaiah is a book bracketed by trees. We too are trees, but which kind?

Why do we worship Jesus on a Sunday?

Christian worship has three dynamic directions.

The work of good governance is kingdom work. Why? Because God governs the world through agents.

Jesus eats a lot of fish. Why might that be? And why is it even a reasonable question to ask?

How do we make people more generous with their time and their money?

When you do some sort of response time, what difference does it make where you do it?

God exists. You exist. Those statements must use the word 'exist' differently.

What are the dragons in the Bible?

The language we use creates the categories that we think in. Choose it carefully.

The obscene cost of housing is going to a significant challenge for churches in recruiting paid elders and staff from elsewhere.

How do you recognise who you should invest time and energy in?

If we want to develop people, especially into something like the role of a teacher, we will have to think differently.