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I have trusted in the Lord with wavering
22 July 2026
3 guiding truths from Jesus in John 11
19 July 2026
Coming to Christ (John 9)
9 July 2026
Serbia so far
21 June 2026
Who do you trust to tell you the truth about the world?
15 June 2026
Where’s the challenge?
12 June 2026
The Problem of Christian Hypocrisy
4 June 2026
Most Who Died Like Jesus Are Unknown. He Isn’t.
2 June 2026
Seeing the state in the light of the gospel
1 June 2026
Passive spectators
21 May 2026
With an unveiled face
24 April 2026
For the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God
23 April 2026
“For how shall it be known that I have found favour in your sight, I and your people?”
22 April 2026
“Who is on the LORD’s side? Come to me”
21 April 2026
Turn from your burning anger
20 April 2026
12 themes I wanted my son to know about God
26 February 2026
Nuclear proliferation is about to pick up speed
25 February 2026
The 12 books I chose for my son to read and why
24 February 2026
Making my son a book
23 February 2026
My big self-discovery of 2025
17 February 2026
You can’t outgrow the gospel
13 February 2026
Stott on the laying on of apostolic hands
12 February 2026
Mission wherever. Learning from Paul in Acts 17
11 February 2026
God with us
8 February 2026
Stott & Pawson on the normal Christian birth
2 February 2026
Look to the megachurch
31 January 2026
The disciples of Apollos
9 January 2026
My reading wishlist from everyone else’s best book lists (2026 edition)
8 January 2026
The world a decade on from ‘peak baby’
7 January 2026
Becoming an intentional father
6 January 2026
My favourite films of 2025
2 January 2026
Remember the wondrous works
26 December 2025
Fresh Cognitive Dissonance
18 December 2025
A genuine interest in your welfare
17 November 2025
Worthless men
3 November 2025
Nuclear War & A House of Dynamite
29 October 2025
Trusting God in your grief
27 October 2025
For the reading life
18 September 2025
Could China Have Gone Christian? Will it still?
17 September 2025
The Bible’s verses on the practice of the Lord’s Supper
20 August 2025
My Communion Project Source List
18 August 2025
Big reading list on the growing gender divergence
6 August 2025
A common way of life
21 July 2025
Outsourcing our moral intuition
11 July 2025
Is the ‘quiet revival’ a result of the COVID pandemic?
10 July 2025
‘Smut, scuzz & sin’
9 July 2025
Should you care about population growth or decline?
30 June 2025
The ten-plus authors club
18 June 2025
How long will our luck last?
16 June 2025
Trends that will shape the rest of the decade
9 June 2025
If you’re going to be weird don’t also be dull
15 May 2025
Sinners, functional atheists & being truly spiritual
13 May 2025
The rolled away stone
23 April 2025
In defence of Simon the Sorcerer
8 April 2025
In the happiest countries there is little joy
24 March 2025
Personal update: March
13 March 2025
The water of life
21 January 2025
My best films of 2024
14 January 2025
A finely tuned world
13 January 2025
Don’t make being a dad over complicated
6 January 2025
My reading wishlist from everyone else’s best book lists
2 January 2025
My Best Reads of 2024
1 January 2025
Refresh my soul, make me wise, give me joy
18 December 2024
Mourning for the thing that was killing you
12 December 2024
The prophetess of demographic decline
11 December 2024
Are we sleepwalking to our doom?
25 November 2024
The Curiosity Index: Week 43
26 October 2024
“Today we buried your father.”
25 October 2024
The Curiosity Index: Week 41
12 October 2024
You don’t love me as you once did
10 October 2024
Beware the outsize influence of Christian Weirdos in a smaller church
8 October 2024
The Curiosity Index: Week 37
14 September 2024
The Curiosity Index: Week 35
31 August 2024
Romans 1-4 Series Outline
27 August 2024
The Curiosity Index: Week 34
24 August 2024
The daunting challenge of preaching on Romans
23 August 2024
Common ground for Charismatics & Cessationists
21 August 2024
The footprints our lives leave
20 August 2024
Whatever happened to “African solutions to African problems?
19 August 2024
Honouring your father
15 August 2024
The Curiosity Index: Week 32
10 August 2024
I will commit my father not to the ground but to the flames
8 August 2024
The polyamorous future
8 August 2024
Grateful for Newday
7 August 2024
Link Round-up: Men & Women
1 July 2024
Link roundup: The Bookish Life
24 June 2024
The Curiosity Index: Week 25
22 June 2024
Midsummer
21 June 2024
The Curiosity Index: Week 24
15 June 2024
The Curiosity Index: Week 23
9 June 2024
When we are weak
18 May 2024
When a day is like a thousand years
13 May 2024
I don’t see what good worrying about it will do
11 May 2024
I ask God to tell him he is loved
9 May 2024
Zeal for your house has (not always) consumed me
8 May 2024
The Curiosity Index: Week 18
4 May 2024
The Curiosity Index: Week 17
30 April 2024
Hard hearts, deceivers & email spam
29 April 2024
A foreigner to me
23 April 2024
More thoughts on Multilingual Church
22 April 2024
How can an unbeliever be holy?
9 April 2024
The Curiosity Index: Week 14
6 April 2024
In the long run
18 March 2024
Ripple effects
5 March 2024
The nuclear world order is shifting significantly
4 March 2024
8 leadership criteria from Hebrews 13
27 February 2024
Does anything you do matter?
21 February 2024
Some thoughts on migration
7 February 2024
How would you know if someone was full of the Spirit?
31 January 2024
A world at war
30 January 2024
Vision, Mission & purpose
23 January 2024
Haeurwas on Marriage
16 January 2024
Starting with a void
12 January 2024
10 Questions to ask for the year ahead
8 January 2024
Functional Atheists & Secular Christians
5 January 2024
The devil has everything he wants
4 January 2024
A Change of Climate
2 January 2024
Honour and gratitude
1 January 2024
When are a couple married?
14 December 2023
Resist the urge to sanitize Scripture
13 December 2023
Saving Private Ryan & grace
5 December 2023
December Update
4 December 2023
The Africa Conundrum
1 December 2023
Three wise responses to the Hirsi Ali news
20 November 2023
The Gospel Coalition Norden Conference
2 November 2023
Once more on the growing nuclear Threat
1 November 2023
The family and the Christian shape of things
18 October 2023
The Vow of Service
27 September 2023
Richard Foster on Power
21 September 2023
How could you possibly know?
15 September 2023
This has something to do with me
12 September 2023
How big is the church in China really?
6 September 2023
What is the One verse every church planter must reckon with?
4 September 2023
The Gospel went east
31 August 2023
Brutal Churches
30 August 2023
World Values, Western Values, and the Fate of Religion.
28 August 2023
Nuclear power is OK. Nuclear weapons not so much.
10 August 2023
Running to your heart rate
21 July 2023
Colossians Remixed: The subversive ethics of the kingdom
13 June 2023
Nobody is discipling them well
7 June 2023
Three questions for the church
5 June 2023
The great upheaval
1 June 2023
Imitate his faith
30 May 2023
Sabbatical
29 May 2023
Practice what you pray
12 April 2023
Jesus & divorce
28 March 2023
Be prepared for death
9 March 2023
What does that have to do with me?
7 March 2023
Nuclear warnings on repeat
21 February 2023
We’re not all equal
15 February 2023
The new forces of mission
1 February 2023
How to understand the Sermon on the Mount
30 January 2023
A Brave New World?
18 January 2023
Apostolic ministry & money
16 January 2023
We are (not) living in a Simulation
6 January 2023
For to us a child is born. To us a son is given
25 December 2022
Is our apostolic ministry biased?
14 December 2022
From the newsletters: The Abbey of Misrule by Paul Kingsnorth
6 December 2022
From the newsletters: 3-2-1 Thursday by James Clear
28 November 2022
Apostolic hierarchy or empowered local leaders?
23 November 2022
Does apostolic ministry need decolonising?
17 November 2022
The Curiosity Index: Week 45
12 November 2022
From the newsletters: Jon Tyson & the Primal Path
9 November 2022
From the newsletters: Other feminisms
27 September 2022
Is the future of Europe African?
23 September 2022
Death does indeed come to us all
9 September 2022
Nuclear war is a pro-life issue
7 September 2022
From the newsletters: Transgender
10 August 2022
From the newsletters: News
9 August 2022
The children of men
28 July 2022
Nuclear madness
27 July 2022
Ukraine predictions reviewed
25 July 2022
The (un)surprising return of marriage
22 July 2022
Abortion readings
19 July 2022
Disdain for religion in academia hurts us all
12 July 2022
The moral duty to protecting our neighbours
30 May 2022
The world is worried about nuclear weapons. At last
11 April 2022
Will Putin use nuclear weapons against Ukraine?
4 March 2022
The world just remembered the problem with nuclear weapons
28 February 2022
Ukraine’s fate is in Putin’s hands
24 February 2022
The end of America?
18 February 2022
Beautiful buildings & building for beauty
17 February 2022
All the oomph
16 February 2022
Putin uses the nuclear threat
11 February 2022
Jonah: A personal reflection
11 February 2022
Introducing: Jonah
10 February 2022
Peter’s condemnation of prosperity teaching
29 September 2021
Colossians Remixed: Dealing with postmodernism
14 September 2021
The Curiosity Index: Week 34
28 August 2021
Remembering it differently but still being right
25 August 2021
Loneliness and the body of Christ
23 August 2021
Always seeking & never finding
19 August 2021
David Devenish on when Mark Driscoll caught Newfrontiers by surprise
13 August 2021
Newfrontiers & Mark Driscoll
10 August 2021
Away
7 July 2021
Colossians Remixed: The battle for the mind
6 July 2021
The Pandemic Roots of Infant Baptism
17 June 2021
Witnessing the unbelievable
15 June 2021
UFOs and the resurrection
14 June 2021
Colossians Remixed: Growing in the Empire’s shadow
26 May 2021
The Curiosity Index: Week 20
24 May 2021
Drawing a new circle
20 May 2021
There is a throne…
12 May 2021
An unexpected lesson
10 May 2021
Colossians Remixed: Do we live under an empire?
7 May 2021
Alternate informational realities
6 May 2021
Engaging with Islam & the Qur’an
4 May 2021
Floki & the death of community
23 April 2021
Colossians Remixed: Hearing with Old Testament ears
22 April 2021
Kingsnorth & the great unsettling
19 April 2021
Colossians Remixed: Placing ourselves
13 April 2021
What will we learn from Mars?
9 April 2021
What’s the problem with consumerism? Eight reasons.
8 April 2021
The great undoing: the rejection of the Christian sexual ethic
6 April 2021
Nuclear toxic masculinity
1 April 2021
An interesting ethical dilemma
31 March 2021
Read with me: Colossians Re:mixed
30 March 2021
What is life?
29 March 2021
When does it “salamander?”
18 March 2021
What we expect
2 March 2021
Choose carefully
23 February 2021
Guarding your heart
16 February 2021
Tune in
13 February 2021
Utterly unintelligible polarizations
10 February 2021
Your church (& mine) needs a climate emergency toolkit
29 January 2021
Life is…
28 January 2021
Films to watch with my son
27 January 2021
Nuclear weapons are illegal. Good.
26 January 2021
Thank God for your brain
20 January 2021
The crisis of truth is worse than the coronavirus crisis
19 January 2021
Of all the world’s problems, coronavirus is the easy one
18 January 2021
We aren’t the kind of people we thought we were
16 January 2021
A new family value
12 January 2021
The storming of Congress and the lesson we need to learn
7 January 2021
Thank God for volcanoes and earthquakes
5 January 2021
What is history’s deadliest pandemic?
4 January 2021
My books of 2020
30 December 2020
My films of 2020
29 December 2020
Dawkins and the search for truth
22 December 2020
Thank God for Jupiter
18 December 2020
Because of the angels
16 December 2020
Can we really live on Mars?
15 December 2020
A turning from trans?
14 December 2020
My 2021 reading list from everyone’s 2020 reading lists
11 December 2020
This is injustice
9 December 2020
Developing an appreciation for science
12 November 2020
You can’t be a little bit sustainable
9 November 2020
The whole life of Jesus
2 November 2020
The biggest ever bomb
26 October 2020
Are we really here yet?
23 October 2020
If it’s not an emergency now, when would we say it is?
20 October 2020
As Many as the Stars
19 October 2020
Give to the one who asks you
16 October 2020
Don’t look to the crisis for clues
30 September 2020
One of the greatest passages in the Bible
28 September 2020
It could get worse when we have a vaccine
25 September 2020
Are these answers really any better?
23 September 2020
Itching ears and sober-minds
20 September 2020
America the troubled
11 September 2020
Focus, focus, sorry er what? Right, focus…
4 September 2020
The waters above and below
2 September 2020
Who wants to live forever?
28 August 2020
The locusts vs the virus
25 August 2020
The multi-cultural church in a changing world
17 August 2020
What Jenkins gets wrong about Hiroshima
12 August 2020
Illegitimate, immoral & illegal
7 August 2020
When will we learn that you can’t out blaspheme the cross
2 July 2020
Nothing green remained
2 July 2020
A long list of problems
26 June 2020
I’m tired of the meanness
23 June 2020
Talking about injustice
17 June 2020
When theology gets angry
10 June 2020
It’s time for a new bus boycott
8 June 2020
A call to conversion
2 June 2020
Fireflies
28 May 2020
The plague spreads
27 May 2020
The Suffering God
10 April 2020
For Such a Time as This
9 April 2020
The Multiverse & the Maker
7 April 2020
Online worship: Palm Sunday
5 April 2020
Will a pandemic turn Europe back to God?
3 April 2020
Over or under represented?
2 April 2020
The thinking person’s checklist
30 March 2020
Thoughts & resources on the online church
24 March 2020
Nothing but…
23 March 2020
The next generation
16 March 2020
Not my ways
15 March 2020
Still the greater threat
13 March 2020
A plague
11 March 2020
Don’t panic
10 March 2020
When heroes fall
27 February 2020
A prediction coming true
26 February 2020
Some follow up
25 February 2020
One simple question
24 February 2020
The Curiosity Index: Books edition (again)
18 February 2020
Convenience, comfort and the coronavirus
12 February 2020
The Mystery
11 February 2020
Never suboptimal
9 January 2020
The Curiosity Index: Books Edition
6 January 2020
2019: How did it go?
2 January 2020
My favourite books of 2019
30 December 2019
My favourite films of 2019
29 December 2019
Is there a reasonable alternative?
27 December 2019
The Curiosity Index: Week 51
21 December 2019
Living in a godless culture in a God-filled world
19 December 2019
My 2020 reading list from everyone else's 2019 recommendations
17 December 2019
Water for Lucy
10 December 2019
Democracy in trouble
9 December 2019
(Re)Launching a TV Station in Burundi!
6 December 2019
The transgender battle heats up
6 November 2019
What if We Nuke a City?
25 October 2019
The only intelligent life?
24 October 2019
Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write
7 October 2019
It just is.
19 September 2019
Am I wrong about self-driving cars?
2 September 2019
Where are all the miracles?
26 August 2019
Sex, porn, marriage & divorce
23 August 2019
Archaeology confirms not disproves the Bible
21 August 2019
Writing is hard
20 August 2019
I’m all alone
19 August 2019
Is nuclear war more likely than you think?
13 August 2019
Scandinavia’s reign as the happiest place on Earth is ending
12 August 2019
Change the world. Plant a tree.
11 August 2019
Swedish town launches controversial £21 begging permit
9 August 2019
The struggles of church without God
31 July 2019
Boris Johnson’s confusing and contradictory religious history
30 July 2019
The Most Bicycle-Friendly Cities of 2019
29 July 2019
Ad Pictura
17 July 2019
Bringing a Tent Peg to a Sword Fight
11 July 2019
Protests in Hong Kong & Bibles from China
10 July 2019
TED’s giant summer reading list
9 July 2019
Experts in camouflage
8 July 2019
Breaking news: Still no alien life
2 July 2019
Is the Bible ambiguous on slavery?
19 June 2019
The ebb and flow
11 June 2019
The Persecuted Church
29 May 2019
The art of translation
27 May 2019
The Curiosity Index (Sweden edition)
17 April 2019
The Curiosity Index (16.04.2019)
16 April 2019
Brexit anxiety begins to bite
10 April 2019
Hosea: A personal reflection
20 February 2019
Introducing: Hosea
19 February 2019
Introducing the Minor Prophets
18 February 2019
What should we learn from Harry Potter?
14 February 2019
Meteors & the destruction of Sodom
18 January 2019
2018: How did it go?
10 January 2019
The demons who never left are back
3 January 2019
More nuclear worries
22 December 2018
How long can we live?
19 December 2018
The persecuted church in China
19 December 2018
On Christianity & Islam (bumper links edition)
19 December 2018
What does it mean to be good?
17 December 2018
Famous atheist fails history (again)
14 December 2018
Christians & homosexuality (Bumper links edition)
23 November 2018
Reading & writing (Bumper links edition)
16 November 2018
The Curiosity Index (15.11.2018)
15 November 2018
The Curiosity Index (12.11.2018)
12 November 2018
The Curiosity Index (09.11.2018)
9 November 2018
Rediscovering the power of community
6 November 2018
The odd case of the atheists and the historical Jesus
16 August 2018
Global reading: a failed test
13 August 2018
Still all alone
2 August 2018
Why I don’t think North Korea will give up the nukes
1 August 2018
Seeking the good life
31 July 2018
A word of encouragement for Courage
14 June 2018
Courage Conference
12 June 2018
Ten thoughts on London
11 June 2018
What I watched in April 2018
11 May 2018
The face of the waters
4 May 2018
A diabolical democracy
2 May 2018
Regulating demons
26 April 2018
Living with startling abundance
20 April 2018
Beaten to the punch on Pinker
19 April 2018
The Curiosity Index (19.04.2018)
19 April 2018
Rediscovering Hospitality
13 April 2018
Rethinking the Exodus
12 April 2018
What I watched in March 2018
11 April 2018
The Curiosity Index (10.04.2018)
10 April 2018
Knowing the difference between immoral, unethical & illegal
9 April 2018
Why Earth’s History Appears So Miraculous
29 March 2018
Mary Magdalene: The reviewers reviewed
26 March 2018
How Christianity thrived
23 March 2018
Nine signals of progressive Christianity
22 March 2018
The rise of a non-Christian Europe
21 March 2018
War is not going anywhere
19 March 2018
In Peterson we trust?
9 March 2018
What I watched in February 2018
5 March 2018
Researching the Route
22 February 2018
Clarifying the call
21 February 2018
Profiling the Personnel
20 February 2018
Reaching the Nations
19 February 2018
The Curiosity Index (12.02.2018)
12 February 2018
7 dimensions to salvation
9 February 2018
The church & the search for happiness in an ocean of loneliness
6 February 2018
The Round Tower
5 February 2018
What I watched in January 2018
1 February 2018
God’s Giant Miracle Carrots
29 January 2018
Two minutes to midnight
26 January 2018
The Curiosity Index (26.01.2018)
26 January 2018
A new famous Canadian: Jordan Peterson
22 January 2018
Understanding secular people
12 January 2018
War and peace
10 January 2018
Why I’m learning about sleep
9 January 2018
Reflections on the year that was
5 January 2018
India
15 December 2017
Religion in Europe: it’s complicated
6 December 2017
It’s bedtime
4 December 2017
The Curiosity Index (01.12.2017)
1 December 2017
The Curiosity Index (28.11.2017)
28 November 2017
How our church (doesn’t) prepare for an active shooter
8 November 2017
The Curiosity Index (05.10.2017)
5 October 2017
The impact of a worldview
21 September 2017
The Curiosity Index (21.09.2017)
21 September 2017
Christians should not be confused about nuclear weapons
19 September 2017
Discussing abortion in the public square
8 September 2017
A bibliophilia special
30 August 2017
10 facts about Hyderabad
18 August 2017
Ten facts about India
17 August 2017
A more nuclear world
15 August 2017
Learning to coach
26 May 2017
All the ones that didn’t stay
5 May 2017
Another great book link list
24 April 2017
Jesus the exorcist
4 April 2017
Tricky questions about the Exodus
3 April 2017
How did life on earth begin?
16 March 2017
Confused about: Sexuality
9 March 2017
Body matters
8 March 2017
Drink this!
28 February 2017
The books I read in 2016
24 February 2017
Is atoning sacrifice absent in Paul’s scheme of salvation?
23 February 2017
The not quite so astonishing growth of the early church
13 February 2017
What is truth?
9 February 2017
Of the writing, buying & reading of books there is no end
2 February 2017
How big was Thessalonica?
18 January 2017
Soren Kierkegaard & the attack on Christendom
17 January 2017
Why aren’t we more worried about the nuclear threat?
13 January 2017
10 years of blogging
10 January 2017
We all need to be journalists now
6 January 2017
Questions about the Trinity
5 January 2017
Questions about Christianity
4 January 2017
Navigating cultural differences
10 November 2016
Baptism: Bibliography
8 November 2016
Baptism: A reading (blogs) primer
7 November 2016
Getting to grips with Islam
21 October 2016
The deceiver vs The debaucher
10 October 2016
The Word for Word Bible Comic
4 October 2016
Book Review: Sacrifice
30 September 2016
How the BBC is normalizing transgenderism
29 September 2016
Why the Bible can be translated and the Qur’an cannot
28 September 2016
The Spirit bears witness
27 September 2016
Book Review: The Story of God’s Mighty Acts
23 September 2016
Relational Mission: The prayers of many
22 September 2016
Spurgeon on revivals and charismata
21 September 2016
Relational Mission: Everyone a witness
20 September 2016
Relational Mission: Raising sons & daughters
15 September 2016
Relational Mission: A real family
14 September 2016
Come follow me
6 September 2016
5 marks of an apostle
1 September 2016
Lessons for church planters from the book of Ezra
31 August 2016
In Sweden who raises the children?
30 August 2016
3 ways to know what God is like
29 August 2016
Freedom to pray not to evangelize
17 August 2016
Christians & Evolution
15 August 2016
Dealing with the tiebreaker
10 August 2016
Free will: illusion or reality?
9 August 2016
Made in the image of google
8 August 2016
Confused: About gender
4 August 2016
Cathedrals of consumerism
22 July 2016
Why reading and writing are good for you
21 July 2016
The gym has replaced the church as the place to belong
19 July 2016
God, the universe, clutching at straws & the new high priests
18 July 2016
Hell revisited
13 June 2016
Relational Mission – a way of life
25 May 2016
He was and is and is to come
23 May 2016
Evangelical smuggling disorder
29 April 2016
Going cashless
26 April 2016
Introducing: Tallinn
1 April 2016
The year of the migrant
29 March 2016
Immigration: Ten observations
22 February 2016
The future of church planting: bi-vocational ministry
17 February 2016
Introducing: Copenhagen
11 February 2016
Review: Lead
5 February 2016
Review: Run
3 February 2016
Review: Read
8 January 2016
Review: Write
3 January 2016
Four words
1 January 2016
Confused: About sex
9 December 2015
Confused: About children
1 December 2015
Don’t drink the poison
25 November 2015
‘The spirit of killing is in my country’
29 October 2015
The death of the book has been greatly exaggerated
22 October 2015
Don’t shut the door: receive the refugee
19 October 2015
Immigration & Asylum: reading & resources
15 September 2015
The refugee crisis & Christian hope: A response
11 September 2015
Lessons on sharing Jesus with Muslims
10 September 2015
Abortion: re-engaging with the issue
8 September 2015
We are alone in the universe
1 September 2015
Collected wisdom on the art of writing
26 August 2015
Ashley Madison, faithfulness & the new vigilantism
25 August 2015
When the migrant crisis gets personal
24 August 2015
Theological conferences & inclusivity: A reply
13 July 2015
The enduring power of real books
23 June 2015
There’s nothing to see here
19 June 2015
Why you should care about Burundi
12 June 2015
Reaching the unreached: why Asia is the key
2 June 2015
The rise and decline of faith
1 June 2015
What happened to Judas?
5 May 2015
Six lessons from Interstellar
29 April 2015
Evolution: Meanings & Misconceptions
28 April 2015
The Curiosity Index (28.04.2015)
28 April 2015
Very special or very, very lucky
23 April 2015
Strong tides
9 April 2015
Reading, writing & the art of tsundoku
27 March 2015
Encouraging female leaders
25 March 2015
Thinking about your city
17 March 2015
The end of war?
13 March 2015
Out in the cold
11 March 2015
Has God forgotten Europe?
10 March 2015
Islamic State, the West and church planting
4 March 2015
The Swedish origins of ‘How Great Thou Art’
12 February 2015
Lessons from Riga
28 January 2015
Christ in the Old Testament
23 January 2015
The return of the links
19 January 2015
The benefits of faith in Christ
22 December 2014
The Apostle Paul on posting comments
22 December 2014
Therapy, sin & modern idols
10 October 2014
When being good is not enough
8 October 2014
Leave none alive
15 September 2014
Interview: The Leadership Files
27 May 2014
Why meetup.com is a gift for church planters
28 April 2014
Istanbul
31 March 2014
Crimean Crisis: An early response
19 March 2014
Joy and sorrow
7 March 2014
Tools to protect your time & your integrity
9 January 2014
Navigating social media
7 January 2014
2013 in the rearview mirror
3 January 2014
Swedish society: some challenges
20 November 2013
Case study: Sweden
18 November 2013
Praying for Europe
15 November 2013
Why Europe matters
14 November 2013
Europe: the challenges
13 November 2013
How Christian is Europe?
11 November 2013
Who can stand?
8 November 2013
Where did all the demons go?
23 October 2013
10 little things that are better in Sweden
1 October 2013
Odd allies
23 September 2013
A Timeline of Christianity
18 September 2013
Film review: Chasing Ice
2 July 2013
How times have changed
27 June 2013
Is Stockholm burning?
25 May 2013
Walking on thin ice?
9 May 2013
Mission in the New Europe
30 April 2013
Did I ever tell you how lucky you are?
12 March 2013
The gender conversation 10: some final reflections
8 March 2013
The gender conversation 9: Complementarian Churches
7 March 2013
The gender conversation 8: Media & blogging
6 March 2013
The gender conversation 7: family, headship & marriage
5 March 2013
The gender conversation 6: gender, men & women
4 March 2013
The gender conversation 5: politics & society
1 March 2013
The gender conversation 3: What is feminism?
27 February 2013
The gender conversation 1: introducing Hannah
25 February 2013
My top posts of 2012
8 January 2013
What social media does to your brain
28 December 2012
Relationships & Scripture: A story of comfort & conflict
17 December 2012
The nightshelter
13 December 2012
Same-sex marriage: not the end of the world?
12 December 2012
Potential consequences to re-defining marriage
10 December 2012
Why I love giving through Kiva
20 November 2012
How do you solve a problem like Deborah?
16 November 2012
Thinking through Halloween
29 October 2012
Mark this date
26 October 2012
Not proof of heaven
17 October 2012
To Turkey
14 October 2012
Scandinavian Day: Momentum for mission
11 October 2012
Not all cities are created equal
19 September 2012
Building my platform and vainglory
6 June 2012
Connecting
5 June 2012
Hello!
4 June 2012
Moving again
29 April 2012
What’s your lifestyle?
12 April 2012
Pay attention to the parody
28 March 2012
The natural outcome to the prosperity message
28 March 2012
Support this!
26 March 2012
Post birth abortion = infanticide = murder
5 March 2012
Back to blighty
3 March 2012
Jobs you won’t be doing in heaven
21 February 2012
Jobs you won’t be doing in heaven
21 February 2012
What you think matters
2 February 2012
Junia or Junias?
26 January 2012
Reasons You Should Not Marry an Unbeliever
25 January 2012
The richer you become the less important God becomes
18 January 2012
Make lent 2012 time for a consumer detox
17 January 2012
Top referrers and referred
4 January 2012
My top posts of 2011
3 January 2012
What mission, whose mission?
23 December 2011
Gender myths and other stuff
21 December 2011
Christmas, consumers, gifts and gratitude
20 December 2011
Now he knows: Christopher Hitchens 1949-2011
16 December 2011
Preach the incarnation
16 December 2011
Bored of Facebook
14 December 2011
Taking a trip to Wango-Bango
23 November 2011
How to preach in a new language in just 4 months!
16 November 2011
The financial crisis: it’s part in our life
9 November 2011
The financial crisis: it's part in our life
9 November 2011
The new reformed: the sound of arid logic chopping
20 October 2011
The early church fathers: On baptism
18 October 2011
Introducing Jubilee+
13 October 2011
Changing how I manage email
12 October 2011
Not exactly Christ centred parenting yet
15 September 2011
Apps that help me sort my life out
8 September 2011
Battlegrounds: Church & Homosexuality
15 August 2011
Tragedy and TV
12 August 2011
Who needs atheists with a church like this?
11 August 2011
London burns: Keep perspective
10 August 2011
John Stott: The Simple Pastor
8 August 2011
A bumper Bibliophilia (04.08.2011)
4 August 2011
Sent: By a family together on a mission
2 August 2011
Trueman is on my bandwagon
11 July 2011
Ring the Bell: Round 2
5 July 2011
Trueman on consumerism
4 July 2011
Be baptised
28 June 2011
To smack or not to smack?
24 June 2011
I give therefore I am (03.06.2011)
2 June 2011
Is Gandhi in heaven?
12 May 2011
Is Christianity more like communism or capitalism?
7 May 2011
Rob Bell is so unoriginal
4 May 2011
The Hell Chronicles
3 May 2011
Gathering & resting
29 April 2011
Do I disagree with or denounce Rob Bell?
21 April 2011
Would that a British PM ever speak like this?
21 April 2011
Why Ricky Gervais is not a Christian
20 April 2011
Is Gandhi in hell?
19 April 2011
Why Christians should be glad about the rise of China
18 April 2011
How scientists view creationism
14 April 2011
The 100 club
13 April 2011
Not quite the last ring of the Bell
12 April 2011
CS Lewis and Rob Bell: it's not just me
5 April 2011
Take the good, leave the bad
14 March 2011
That was drastic
10 March 2011
More thoughts on hell
10 March 2011
Dealing with Facebook
9 March 2011
For Sale
9 March 2011
What do baptists do with believing children?
7 March 2011
Hell continues to get reactions
6 March 2011
Thinking and linking about hell
3 March 2011
For whom does Bell toll?
1 March 2011
Is dark matter science’s ‘god of the gaps’?
28 February 2011
Trueman & Meynell on capitalism
21 February 2011
Off to Sweden
13 February 2011
What could I accomplish if I didn't watch TV?
8 February 2011
Christ is our example
7 February 2011
Christ is our righteousness
4 February 2011
Christ is our judge and our salvation
3 February 2011
Christ is our Lord
2 February 2011
Introducing Philippians
1 February 2011
Simplifying my digital life *progress report*
28 January 2011
Charismatics 'are unbiblical'
26 January 2011
“You’re making a mistake”
19 January 2011
My life in other people's books
17 January 2011
Praise for Consumer Detox
12 January 2011
Simplifying my digital life
30 December 2010
My ten (now eleven) most popular posts of 2010
27 December 2010
The most repugnant idea ever
25 December 2010
Top 10 search terms to find this blog
17 December 2010
10 ways to destroy or save the imagination of your child
15 December 2010
Calvinists v Arminians (round 4)
14 December 2010
Calvinists v Arminians (round 3)
11 December 2010
Where did all my readers go?
9 December 2010
Top 10 blogs who sent me readers
8 December 2010
Calvinists v Arminians (round 2)
6 December 2010
The problems secularists have with Christians
10 November 2010
Amazing Generosity
9 November 2010
Why secularists hate Christian youth festivals
8 November 2010
Is evangelical Christianity all about the 'show'?
4 November 2010
Swipely: Social network for consumers
29 October 2010
Water
23 October 2010
Reviving Christianity in France
18 October 2010
Prayer & Fasting
14 October 2010
Was infant baptism the standard in the early church?
28 September 2010
Why watching TV won't turn your baby into a genius
14 September 2010
Why does retail therapy feel so good?
1 September 2010
What’s wrong with weddings?
12 August 2010
TV cripples us
11 August 2010
No longer a bookshop owner
2 August 2010
Reasons to be thankful
20 July 2010
Together on a Mission
7 July 2010
Apple: The New Religion?
5 July 2010
A vision for the High Street
18 June 2010
Controversy, reform and a new government
13 May 2010
It was bound to happen…
4 May 2010
2009 and 2010 marathon in numbers
27 April 2010
Typhoo claim all their tea is fair trade even if isn't 'fair trade'
20 April 2010
Holiday
17 April 2010
Political Issues: Afghanistan & Defence
16 April 2010
Interviewing the candidates
13 April 2010
Political Issues: Race relations & immigration
12 April 2010
Political Issues: The Economy
8 April 2010
Political Issues
7 April 2010
Training Comparison *updated*
6 April 2010
This heavy cross
2 April 2010
Round the Lakes 20
22 March 2010
My library of unread books
18 March 2010
Are adverts morally neutral?
12 March 2010
Plantar Fasciitis
10 March 2010
Convict me Lord
11 February 2010
Reaching the nations
6 February 2010
I no longer need to be sin-infested
5 February 2010
With God vulnerable, like never before, all the devil gained was defeat
3 February 2010
Building a memorial
31 January 2010
Don't forget Haiti
29 January 2010
Learning the value of schools
28 January 2010
Pimp my truck
23 January 2010
Pakistan
20 January 2010
We have a lover
17 January 2010
Take time to play
15 January 2010
Experiment Concluded
14 January 2010
So much for global warming
7 January 2010
Where Genesis and Science agree
7 January 2010
Jesus is here! Merry Christmas
24 December 2009
Some more progress
15 December 2009
Wayne Grudem is wrong about the climate
5 December 2009
Adbusting: LG Seamless Entertainment
30 November 2009
Ministry can kill relationships
27 November 2009
What sort of blog is this?
23 November 2009
A lament for letters
18 November 2009
What's important to me politically? Wise foreign policy
12 November 2009
Why do I do it?
28 October 2009
Through the eyes of a child
27 October 2009
Top 10 books on consumerism
21 October 2009
Not every thought should become a post
20 October 2009
New personal best
17 October 2009
Bodies
15 October 2009
Reduce submarines but keep the nuclear weapons: Huh?
23 September 2009
Another personal best
18 September 2009
I’ve been watching too much of the West Wing
17 September 2009
BBC & Fairtrade
27 August 2009
How to get rid of your stuff
26 August 2009
What being a dad has taught me (so far)
17 August 2009
Summer conferences
14 August 2009
Newday: The final day
6 August 2009
Newday: Wednesday
6 August 2009
Newday: Tuesday
4 August 2009
Newday: Monday
4 August 2009
Newday: Sunday
2 August 2009
Newday begins
1 August 2009
Am I reformed? I might be…
29 July 2009
TOAM: Round Up
28 July 2009
Am I emergent? I might be
27 July 2009
How to get out of our financial crisis
22 July 2009
TOAM: Day 3 (the rest)
9 July 2009
TOAM: Day 3 (so far)
9 July 2009
TOAM: Thinking about yesterday before today
9 July 2009
TOAM: Day 2 (the rest)
8 July 2009
TOAM: Day 2 (so far)
8 July 2009
TOAM: Day 1
7 July 2009
TOAM: Session 1
7 July 2009
Off to Brighton
5 July 2009
The Power of Advertising
29 June 2009
Because Life is a Gift…
29 June 2009
‘Inimical to a healthy and happy life’
16 June 2009
Getting back into the groove
10 June 2009
Adbusting: Absolut Vodka
9 June 2009
A new definition of a one car family
12 May 2009
Stupid – 2 years in a row
28 April 2009
The hardest day of my life
27 April 2009
Adbusting: Honda Insight
21 April 2009
Last club run
16 April 2009
I can tie my shoelaces
12 April 2009
Promise of Life
12 April 2009
Testing the knee
11 April 2009
Abandoned Run
6 April 2009
26 days and counting
31 March 2009
Dare to break the mould
19 March 2009
Calvinism, Driscoll, and who are the Reformed?
18 March 2009
‘If anyone has earned a place in heaven’
5 March 2009
Why the fuss about cities?
4 March 2009
How many blogs do you read?
3 March 2009
Adbusting: Sky HD
22 February 2009
Consuming Reflections: Everyone gathered enough
19 February 2009
Run 1
17 February 2009
Holiday reading
17 February 2009
Waking up from the consumer dream
5 February 2009
Sore knee and hips
31 January 2009
Virgo on: Leadership in a time of transition
26 January 2009
Forgiving your son’s murderer
25 January 2009
Longest run
10 January 2009
Club Time Trial
10 January 2009
Biblical Insults
8 January 2009
Visionary/ Crazy-Maker
5 January 2009
One for the theologians
4 January 2009
What to do with all those Christmas cards
3 January 2009
I'm a Geek
3 January 2009
Christmas Club Run
30 December 2008
Economic crisis a ‘reality check’
30 December 2008
Is our government immoral?
28 December 2008
Boxing Day run: Oxford
28 December 2008
My Christmas Day
26 December 2008
Another Hallelujah
23 December 2008
Most commented posts
19 December 2008
Two years of blogging
18 December 2008
Philip Yancey on blogging
17 December 2008
Life is Fragile
12 December 2008
Snippets Extra
10 December 2008
Adbusting: PSP
10 December 2008
A new kind of capitalism?
9 December 2008
The shallow end of existence
2 December 2008
People are Lonely
1 December 2008
Do we have problems with a process?
1 December 2008
What about the future?
27 November 2008
God punished Christ?
25 November 2008
Is Depression a Sin?
25 November 2008
How to help Africa?
25 November 2008
Atonement Debate: Again
24 November 2008
Worship Experiences
22 November 2008
What’s a Pastor of Technology?
19 November 2008
Highly Religious are more helpful
19 November 2008
Contraception and the beginning of life (part 2)
12 November 2008
Contraception and the beginning of life (part 1)
11 November 2008
Barack Obama
7 November 2008
Abortion not just an American issue
29 October 2008
My dream chair
9 October 2008
Never talked to a Pastor
7 October 2008
More on the Blogging Commandments
1 October 2008
The 10 Commandments for Bloggers
29 September 2008
What about trade justice?
28 September 2008
Supporting Christian Bookshops
25 September 2008
Fighting to save the rich
24 September 2008
Creation and Evolution
15 September 2008
NSCC v ASA (round 3)
15 September 2008
Healing Controversy Continues
3 September 2008
Who am I protecting?
28 August 2008
Todd Bentley, revival, and discernment
15 August 2008
Transforming the environment
11 August 2008
More on our healing debate…
10 August 2008
An amazing Newday!
10 August 2008
It is not irresponsible to say ‘God Does Heal Today’
8 August 2008
Adbuster: Big Yellow
15 July 2008
Bonhoeffer and Gene Robinson
13 July 2008
Bonhoeffer on: The Big Question
5 July 2008
Gamaliel vs The Bereans
1 July 2008
Visit to Dudley (part 5)
25 June 2008
Visit to Dudley (part 4)
24 June 2008
Visit to Dudley (part 3)
21 June 2008
Visit to Dudley (part 2)
20 June 2008
Visit to Dudley (part 1)
19 June 2008
You can buy nothing
13 June 2008
Joel Edwards on Florida
10 June 2008
Fresh eyes…
9 June 2008
The happiest place on earth…
2 June 2008
A plea for discernment with Prophetic words
2 June 2008
Who names a revival?
30 May 2008
Not a Christian country…
21 May 2008
Revival stuff….
21 May 2008
Christian Bookshops
20 May 2008
Tearfund on: Global impact
16 May 2008
Bonhoeffer: on the cross
1 April 2008
Embracing Jesus
23 March 2008
God v Country
17 March 2008
The Simple Pastor reaches first milestone
2 January 2008
Black Gold
11 December 2007
How UnChristian are we?
4 December 2007
Choose carefully what you read
26 November 2007
An instinct for community
6 October 2007
The Cup of Wrath
18 September 2007
Let’s Go – Day Two
31 August 2007
Let’s Go North Shrewsbury – Day One
30 August 2007
I choose faith
9 August 2007
Stuff lust
6 July 2007
More iFuss over the iPhone
30 June 2007
Bibliophiliac?
23 June 2007
Black Gold
8 June 2007
Turn Off the TV
19 March 2007
Peace at any price?
14 March 2007
Cuba, Carbon and the Sunday Papers
7 March 2007
Learning how to sell
27 February 2007
How to discover inner peace
9 February 2007
A new food challenge?
1 February 2007
Can’t beat em join em
21 January 2007
At last a responsible supermarket?
15 January 2007
What else to do?
12 January 2007
Losing the art of living together
3 January 2007
The Search for Happiness
30 December 2006
Indie confused over consumerism
28 December 2006
Happy Feet?
19 December 2006
Charity the new rock and roll?
18 December 2006
Motorbikes and Meaning
18 December 2006
Learning to Breathe
18 December 2006
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