Photos from Tom Sine

If you were at the Tom Sine event at Vose Seminary, last week, you might want to see these photos from the night…. http://vose.wa.edu.au/view/news/20080430113407/

Tom Sine stirs things up in Perth

Anabaptistish-futurologist-populariser of kingdom ideas Tom Sine was in Perth last week, and Chris Summerfield has written a thoughtful and interesting post thinking through the consequences.
In Tom talking up the new conspirators (emerging, missional, multicultural, monastic communities), it brought up for me a struggle over the last few months against feeling left behind. For me, I [...]

Success in the Kingdom of God: a sermon

Agape Chinese Baptist Church 27 April 2008
Reading: Luke 12:13-21

 The world brainwashes us with a particular version of success. According to the world, we are successful when we have a lot of money. We are successful when people admire us and envy us. The world tells us that we need lots of stuff to be successful [...]

Tom Sine @ Vose Seminary

I’m looking forward to Tom Sine appearing in my library on Thursday 24 April – http://vose.wa.edu.au/view/news/20080414142148/. Tom has strong Anabaptist connections, and his latest book, The New Conspirators, looks at the way God is working through emerging, missional, monastic, and mosaic streams of church as heralds of his kingdom.  Please come along!

Discouraged by a man who hears from God

I spent yesterday at a day long seminar which was meant to be about house church but wasn’t really. I came away with a heavy heart. The speaker was an American with an international ministry, but focused on India. He starts a lot of house churches, mainly by discipling people.
His big focus seemed to me [...]

The failure to be friendly

I think committed Christian communities – new monastics, house churches, emerging churches and other variations – are the most exciting thing happening for the kingdom of God at the moment. But today I was struck afresh by our main failing: unfriendliness.  I’m not talking about something new, but it needs thinking about.
There’s this balancing act between [...]

Strange encounters with mainstream evangelicalism 4 : Yancey

My thoughts on reading Philip Yancey’s Reaching for the invisible God
I’ve been avoiding Yancey for years. He’s so popular I thought he’d be insipid. I was wrong. I repent of being so dismissive. In one way I’m surprised he’s so popular; in another way I understand and think it’s great. He reads so widely and [...]

The gospel of war

I find this ad so very disturbing and yet also comical. It’s amazing Christians can be so very worried about the eternal destination of soldiers and yet not at all concerned about what they’re doing here on Earth or the agenda they’re serving.