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Winners

Over the past weekend winners have been announced for the dancing competition Strictly Come Dancing and the BBC Sports Personality of the...
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The Tardis Preacher

I recently read a blog by Andrew Wilson in which he asked the intriguing question: “What is the most attractive quality in a leader?” I...
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Interruptions

I am writing this blog on the last morning of my brief trip to Riga to teach for the School of Preachers at the Latvian Biblical Centre....
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The Creative Process

Creative people do things in a unique and memorable way. Writers take the 26 letters of the alphabet and use then to create works of...
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Attention Span

Preachers have been thinking about attention spans for decades. It used to be reckoned that the maximum uninterrupted attention span of...
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Touched but not Moved

Here I am on a Monday morning, finishing off this blog. On Monday morning every preacher tends to take a backward glance at yesterday’s...
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Climate of Fear

I have been interested to follow the news coming from COP26. A lot of the statements at the Global Climate Summit have been far from...
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Here we go again!

I have just returned from a month away in Riga doing preaching and training for a variety Latvian churches. On the five Sundays in...
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Robotic Preaching

It had to come. Artificial Intelligence providing spiritual resources for the church. Thanks to Madeleine Pennington for her tweet...
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All roads lead to Jesus

Is it true that all true preaching roads lead to Jesus? Let me put my cards on the table: “Yes.” Yet preachers need to be careful how...
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First Things First!

Over the past two months I have been leading a training session for some pastors in Uganda. I have enjoyed this for a variety of reasons....
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“Open our Eyes Lord…

… and help us to listen”, I guess is a prayer that all of us need to pray each and every day. One of the criticisms I frequently hear...
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