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Category: Covid-19

After Disruption

If you happen to visit Berlin it would be well worth looking out for the Chapel of Reconciliation on Bernaeur … More

Christianity, Church life, Disruption, Hope, Ukraine

Misunderstanding the Church Pt.2

Living in the last dim rays of gospel light in Western culture can give the church a strong sense of … More

Christianity, Church life, Culture, Local Church, Misunderstanding

Misunderstanding the Church

Thomas Mann’s phrase that ‘everything is politics’ seems undeniably true in our society in the second decade of the twenty … More

Church life, Covid-19, Government, Local Church, Politics

3 Reasons to Keep Going as a Pastor

Broadly, if not universally, these are extremely tough times to be a Pastor. Compared with the searing persecution of previous … More

Covid19, Local Church, Ministry, Pastoral Ministry, Stress

Regather. Rejoice. Lament. Rebuild.

Church families are returning to their buildings once again in the UK and Ireland, after a break of almost four … More

Covid19, Local Church, Ministry

Pastors, Covid, and Criticism

As the barriers erected by Covid 19 in the UK and Ireland start to lift a little, the prospect of … More

Coronavirus, Covid19, Local Church, Lockdown, Pastoral Ministry, Pastoralia, Regathering

Preaching under the smile and the smiting rod

As I write these words, our home has descended into the silence of sleep on a Saturday night, and I … More

Covid19, Ministry, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching

Some implications of an empty pulpit

Whether your cup is half empty or half full in the current global crisis, whether you credit or descry online … More

Christianity, Covid19, Lament, Ministry, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching

A Certain Sound through Preaching

How are we to answer the exigencies and anxieties of the hour? What tone of voice and approach should we … More

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Ministry, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching

Learning the deeper lessons

These are undoubtedly the strangest of days. We are in a state of upheaval and disruption, and we have no … More

Christian living, Christianity, Coronavirus, Covid19, priorities
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