Living Open Source

Myself and a colleague, John Draycott from Holy Trinity here in St Helens spend much time drinking coffee and trying to help each other help our congregations get a grip on God and his world. Well, having being inspired by Tom Wright’s book, Surprised by Hope, we set about creating a course to make the [...]

As leaders from across the globe roll into London for the G20 summit, the events of that first Palm Sunday seem all the more significant.

I wrote a post a while back highlighting some of the resources I find helpful for preparing worship and preaching for Sundays. Here is some more help for the preacher of the not so desperate variety.

Since Easter day, we have been exploring the theme of hope and resurrection in church. Making much use of Tom Wright’s Surprised by Hope, it has been an interesting experience to challenge some of the accepted understandings that people hold to. Having noted the lack of appropriate songs, I’ve also had a go at writing [...]

Well, that is at least what my kids have affectionately called it. I wrote this song recently and finally found some time to try and have a go at recording it – probably badly. The song is based pretty solidly on Psalm 8, one of my favourite Psalms. Not least because we did it to [...]

Time for a new series of tutorials on how to blog your church with WordPress. We’ll start at the beginning and take one step at a time. I’ll keep it brief but if you get stuck or if I’m going too fast – shout through the comments section at the bottom of this post. The [...]

There are literally hundreds of song projection programs designed to project song lyrics and control your data projection in church. Most of them are actually pretty poor, with terrible user interfaces and what is more – they cost the earth. At one point I began writing my own, a project still lying incomplete, but then [...]