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This Sunday I was preaching in two different churches. The first was an international church, where I was preaching in English; the...

Two recent pieces in the newspaper have given me reason to reflect. The first was by the Jewish satirical journalist Giles Coren, who...

I have been leading a variety of preaching events recently and thinking about ones that are coming up. It has made me think about the...

I was in Germany over the weekend, making my third visit to train Ukrainian preachers who are living there. It was a poignant weekend...

For the past year or so I have been lending a hand at a local church in mid-Sussex. As well as doing some preaching, expressing pastoral...

One evening last week brought together my love for film and my love for the music of Bob Dylan. I went to see the new biopic of Bob...

I have been invited to speak at the Pastor’s Academy gathering in London this Thursday. There is still time to book in in person or...

I have just returned from Latvia. I was there for the first three Sundays of Advent. I tried to follow my own advice and preach on Advent...

I was asked about what strategy Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones used when he sensed that he might be losing his congregation on a warm Wednesday...

Preaching can be something of a hit and miss endeavour. I have been reminded of that this week when thinking about the question: How do...

I was thinking today about how much surface cultural noise invades the preacher in the first quarter of the 21st Century. There is the...