I made a point about Barabbas at our Good Friday service, it was okay – but this is ANOINTED. Unfortunately whoever’s doing the transcript mishears him a couple of times, it’s even better than the words!
Videos
Casting Crowns ‘Set Me Free’ & edit from Passion Of The Christ. #bgbg2
Powerful! This is what Easter means. Nobody took His life, but He lay it down for you and me.
That Jew Died For You (Video)
The link to this site was sent to me by a friend who’s involved with Jews For Jesus. Having been to Auschwitz twice, I found it compelling. Tomorrow is Good Friday. In the face of tragedy or pain people often ask the question or level the charge ‘Where was God when…’ When I speak at our service on ‘Measuring the love of God – how long and wide and high and deep,’ my focus throughout this Easter weekend is to remember, whatever we go through – our God is right there, the suffering servant and the risen Lord.
Before you complain about the hand you were dealt…
I’ve seen one or two videos of Nick teaching before, but what he does AND what he says about why he has this incredible attitude is totally inspiring.
A True Pioneer – Gerald Coates
Just made time to watch this fascinating video detailing the life and something of the contribution of my friend Gerald Coates. My contact with Gerald, his infectious big vision, encouraging faith and informal mentoring made a huge difference when I was in Surrey. Watching this show highlights a key figure God has used in our generation for the good of His church. No history of the UK church in our generation would be complete without including (and honouring) him.
Cain and Abel
My talk from a couple of weeks back – do we give the best, or leftovers? Features award winning performances by Nick Duffy and Alan Taylor as the scrapping scriptural siblings
Guest Blog: Luke Smith Video – ‘Saved Again’
Listen to this great story of courage and faith
OMG! My talk from our last baptism service, and a BIG resource for free next year.
You’ve heard people say OMG a lot. You’re going to hear a lot more about OMG in 2014. Thanks to the amazing people at UCB there’s a mini-book in preproduction I’ve written which will see 50,000 copies handed out next year, together with multiple thousands of FREE booklets, a DVD, a website full of OMG moments – and a FREE follow up course and book to help people who change their minds about God through it learn what it it is to follow. You can get a free sneaky peek at the content by watching this talk which a lot of it came out of. Let me know what you think, please.
Treat Your Ears To @tomcopson
This guy is amazing through and through. What a voice. Used to help lead the worship at the church we linked with in Surrey. Enjoy.
‘Won’t Get Fooled Again.’ (My thoughts on Syria)
Won’t Get Fooled Again? In March 2003 Tony Blair made a liar out of me. I was leading a church in Surrey and we had great links with the local comprehensive school. They would call me in for pastoral care for some pupils, and I regularly did assemblies, too. They called me in after 9/11 – one of the children lost a family member when the twin towers went down. So the head called me in as it was announced that we were going to invade Iraq and air strikes were beginning, because a lot of the kids were understandably scared, could I talk to them? My problem was – what would I say? I am not a political animal, but I had taken the time in one or two midweek prayer meetings around that time to indicate that I was very wary of Britain being part of the hastily dubbed coalition. I could not see how invading Iraq would have any connection to ‘The war on terror,’ or in fact how you could go to war against terror at […]