Pastor's Blog
Christmas and the Insurance guys
12/12/2011 - 17:44
click on this link to watch a 3 min clip from 3 followers of Jesus working in the insurance industry. The clip includes our very own Doug Lacoss! It was shown at the St Helen's Carol service this year.
Cancer, death and Christ
08/12/2011 - 14:19
Many of us in the church are in a time of grieving right now. I just read this and it is comforting.
A thought provoking book
17/11/2011 - 10:31
I'm reading at present is "Jesus + Nothing = Everything". Whilst not the deepest or most brain-demanding book around, yet this book written by the grandson of Billy Graham, brings the ingredients of Tim Keller, CS Lewis and John Piper into a potent cocktail, which if drunk, makes your mind whirl with a 100 good ideas. It's worth reading for the way he teaches the doctrine of sancitifcation, and elevates Christ and releases us from "moralism. perfomanicism and legalism." 
Jesus + Nothing = Everything
14/11/2011 - 10:00
I've just started reading this book and already it has some challenging things to say:
"Jesus said we must die in order that we might live. Daily Christian living is daily Christian dying: dying to our trivial comforts, soul-shrinking conveniences, arrogant preferences, and self-centred entitlements, and living for something much larger than what makes us comfortable and safe." (p20)
"A gospel centred church is a church filled with people who give everything they have because they understand that in Christ they have everything they need." (p21)
"I was realising in a fresh way the NOW-power of the gospel - that the gospel doesn't simply rescue us from the PAST and rescue us for the FUTURE; it also rescues us in the PRESENT from being enslaved to things like fear, insecurity, anger, self-reliance, bitterness, entitlement, and insignificance." (23).
hmm - may not read anymore.
Bye bye Barbie, Barbie bye bye...
01/11/2011 - 09:39
Listen to this guy proclaiming salvation in Jesus name. Wonderful. Then hear his wife worshipping the beauty of God - with a line in her hip-hop that made me smile, "If they truly beheld your beauty they'd make magazines and mattel go bankrupt."
The heart of a church planter
14/10/2011 - 08:45
Is this you? 
Then you are needed as a church planter.
Camden Town
14/10/2011 - 08:26
Much prayer is needed for the big cities of our godless nation. For those of you who do pray for God to work and for the gospel to spread in our cities, click here for some encouragement.
Facing a task unfinished
26/09/2011 - 07:58
Warning - clicking on this link could seriously damage your comfortable Christian corner.
Ahead of the front line
23/09/2011 - 07:56
This is an amazing story that gives me an idea about how to develop our front line strategy. Most of our time is spent on the front line (the place where we work, study or play). Systematically, we withdraw from the front line and spend time at base camp with other believers (in fellowship on Sundays and Wednesdays). But here is a story of some brave men advancing way beyond the front line into enemy territory (maybe this could be the places we deliberately go to in order to witness for Jesus?)
Playing safe church is is only an option for the religious.
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