Category: vision
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what am I doing?
In a couple of weeks’ time I have been asked to facilitate a weekend for a church Leadership Team to look at God’s vision for the church. In preparation I have done a lot of reading around the subject and there seem to be a lot of different nuances and terminology used but the same basic themes…
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new old vision
Since September last year our church has affirmed a 2020 vision. I have mentioned it on this blog before. On Sunday morning we will start a new series looking at the 2020 vision and to help us I have written a guide to the 2020 vision that is intended to be a foundational document –…
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2020 vision
This bloggage is based on a leaflet that will be shared with our church this weekend. On 1st September I shared a 2020 vision in my sermon in the morning service. We are seeking to see clearly what God’s vision is for us as a church, and looking at 2020 as a point in the…
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nosing around
I have recently experienced another sign that I am getting older. My eyes are getting worse. Just before Christmas I had them checked (fed up with plain blue/grey). The optician confirmed what I thought – my eyes (or more accurately one of my eyes) had deteriorated. When I put on the medieval torture device that…
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the story so far
At the conference for Ministers of larger churches I am checking in on what I wrote yesterday during some free time. yes yes yes can’t answer this until I get home. That’s still a pretty good ratio of success on my hopes, dreams and ambitions for the conference and we are only half way through!…
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21 today!
Why are people reticent to reveal their age? After we reach 29 it seems that we would rather not tell people how old we are. We may say we are ‘twentyteen’ or cough violently as we are revealing our age. Or there’s the good old fail-safe ’21 again’. I am 21 today. Honestly. Okay, it’s my…