“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a […]

I have these in my notes from the recent seminar with Alan Roxburgh. Forgive me Alan, you probably didn’t say it exactly like this, but I am sure I have captured the main essence.
“These bones - can they live again?
It is the breath of God that gives them new life.
It is the wind that you […]

I believe it to be a great mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense in it…. We cannot blink at the fact that gentle Jesus meek and mild was so stiff in his opinions and so inflammatory in his language that he was thrown out of church, stoned, hunted from […]

From a post by Alan Roxburgh and Chris Erdman on cultivating growth:
Cultivation is an ancient word taken from agricultural practices. It is an organic metaphor rather than one of managment or warfare. A gardner or farmer understands that the life and purpose of plants or crops is not something over which the farmer has a […]

Loved this section of the christmas message from Rowan Williams:
He does what we do; he is born, he grows up, he lives for many years a life that is ordinary and prosaic like ours - he works, he eats, he sleeps. Here is ultimate love, complete holiness, made real in a back street in a […]

It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, ‘Let justice roll down like mighty waters,’ and quite another to work out the irrigation system. Clearly there is more certainty in the recognition of wrongs than there is in the prescription for their cure.
William Sloane Coffin

Once every hundred years Jesus of Nazareth meets Jesus of the Christian in a garden among the hills of Lebanon. And they talk long; and each time Jesus of Nazareth goes away saying to Jesus of the Christian, “My friend, I fear we shall never, never agree.”
Kahlil Gibran Sand and Foam

A quote from Alan Roxburgh
“We need a movement of God’s people into neighborhoods, to live out and be the new future of Christ. It must be a movement that demonstrates how the people of God have a vision and the power to transform our world. This is not the same as current attempts to grow […]

Thanks to Prodigal Kiwi for this quote today - Clouds and Light
A Jew, awaiting death or persecution in a prison cell in Cologne wrote the following on his prison wall:
I believe in the sun even when it is not shining.
I believe in love even when I cannot feel it.
I believe in God even when he […]

Nigel wrote this in a previous comment about Easter. I thought it was worth elevating to here.

What God has achieved (is achieving) through Jesus is unique. Jesus was a singular person. There will never and could never be another as Christ-like as he. When the women and other disciples saw the risen Jesus for the […]