Living Open Source

Instead of throwing something at the guy working your projector when you need to change PowerPoint slides, you could use your iPhone or your iPod touch as your remote. With a swipe of your thumb, your next slide appears majestically on the screen. And what if you also had a view of your slide and [...]

Just got back from 3 days in Blackpool on our local ministers conference. We were privileged to have Steve Holmes with us for the 3 days as our main speaker, talking about communication and preaching.

Thought I’d take on the challenge of preaching the text in Lamentations 3:23-33 this Sunday. I came across a really helpful paper by Walter Brueggemann, The Costly Loss of Lament, which reflected on what we have lost in our modern culture, in losing the prayer or song of lament.

I‘m not preaching the lectionary this week, as I’m preaching away from home. I thought I’d use the story of Jonah for which there seem to be endless animated versions of the story, like this one.

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 [...]

There are lots of sites for desperate preachers around. Places where people have uploaded all their sermons for others to replay somewhere else. I’m not sure of the benefit or justification for such desperate action by a preacher, though I do admit to having used the words of others in my own teaching and have [...]