It is dark and it is now cold. It has been snowing and I’m fighting the desire to hibernate! Today I’m heading down to Malmö in the far south of Sweden to meet some believers who are interested in seeing a Word & Spirit church formed in their city. Anyway on to the weeks links and tips.

You Should Read These

Seven articles that might be worth you bookmarking, reading & thinking about

1. Slippery Slopes & Finding Allies. I second this from Matt Hosier
2. What Is Expository Preaching? Four Different Approaches to Hone Your Sermon Prep
3. How the Customer Review Changed the World from Samuel James.
4. The culture (polity?) that is Dutch. This is such a disturbing trend developing across the West.
5. How John Steinbeck tricked his kids into reading great books. Love this!
6. Egg-Laying Mammal Recorded Only Once by Scientists Rediscovered After 60 Years !!
7. Mapping the World’s Highest Mountains, By Continent. I did not know that about Denali!

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You Should Look At This

Stunning Winners of the UK Landscape Photographer of the Year Contest and the featured image at the top of this post.

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You Should Listen To This

A very wintry kind of tune

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You Should Watch This

This is determination personified.

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This Week’s Postings

1. Three Wise Responses To The Hirsi Ali News
2. The Culture That Is Sweden

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From The Archives

I think this is one reason that gives me such confidence in the future of Christianity. Hinduism is essentially locked into Indian culture and history. Buddhism is not a missionary faith. Islam is expansionist but faces massive challenges and has an essential mono-lingual component (the only true Qur’an is Arabic). Atheism has neither demographics nor organisation on its side. Only Christianity has multiple centres, missionary confidence and global reach.

The Ebb And Flow