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Summer is often the time when preachers sketch out plans for the coming year’s sermons. One of the easiest ways to manage this process is...

Preaching is not intended to be a virtuoso solo performance. All sermons should be well populated. I was reminded of this last weekend as...

Preachers operate at a number of levels in every sermon. We connect the following worlds: The world of unbelief or indifference.This is a...

We live quite near to the Wiston Estate where the Big Church Day Out, renamed Big Church Festival, has become an annual fixture since...

Yes, the book is being published this week. The day before publication felt a little bit like waiting for a baby to be born. If you had...

The person who edits this blog helps to tidy up bad grammar and iron out inelegant phrases. He also introduced my wife and I to Wordle, a...

This week I have listened to fifteen sermons. No, I have not been at a very long church service, nor have I been glued to online...

Over the weekend I was speaking at the Beech Hill Church, Otley’s weekend away. There were four sessions based on the first ten chapters...

Never an Idle Moment. Thinking about forty years since I was ordained in 1982, I was wondering about how the pastor’s work ethic has...

Not sure if you noticed, but there has been a two-week break in the blog. This is not because I ran out of ideas or merely forgot; I have...

Always nice to be back preaching at Lancing Tab, where I served as pastor for 22 years. I was assigned the text Mark 8:22–38. This...

In a year or two most people will not remember who won an Oscar in 2022, but everyone will remember that punch! As it happens, it was the...