One of my favourite quotes on leadership is from Bill George in his book, True North. He writes, “The role of the leader is not to get other people to follow them but to empower others to lead.” I love that idea of empowering or releasing another to find their God given potential. On his […]
The Grander Story
Donald Miller in his book, Blue Like Jazz writes, “The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: Life is a story about me.” Rick Warren opened his best selling book, Purpose Driven Life with the words. “It’s not about you.” If we think life is just about us, then our story is […]
We Need God
Douglas Coupland, in his book “Life After God” reflects on being part of the generation which grew up without God. Whilst previous generations might have grown up going to church and Sunday school, that was not Coupland’s experience. As a result of the widespread jettisoning of faith by the generation before him, there was a […]
The Grand Vision of the Church
There is something in the human psyche where we tend to label or categorise people. We decide who’s in and who’s out. We put people into boxes. We create barriers. The grand vision of the church is to be a new community, a family, which is no longer marked by the barriers we create. A […]
The Life We Live
As we explore Ephesians 2: 1-10 together, we look at that which is bringing death to us, as well as the beautiful solution of God’s grace that restores us. One of the deadly environments we look at is what Paul refers to as “the world” and how we ought not follow “the ways of the […]
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