This Wednesday we start our new 6.30 Leadership Course – I hope you can join us. In this post I wanted to put things in context and look at the motivations for being a leader, especially if you’re naturally timid in nature. In 2 Timothy, Paul is passing on the baton to his young apprentice Timothy. He […]
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6.30 Leadership Course – 2 Timothy (year 1)
Developing Leaders is a theme found throughout the scriptures. From Jethro telling Moses he needed to share the leadership load (Exodus 18); to David gathering around him a group of “distressed, discontent and in-debt men” who would start to bring about change in Israel (1 Samuel 22:1-2); to Nehemiah appointing leaders to different positions to […]
Changing The World Around The Table
We’re just about the start back as a church and our new series is all about Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples, told to us in John 13-17. In these chapters Jesus prepares his church for his imminent departure. In this short post I wanted to reflect on how Jesus’ decision to have a meal with his […]
The Complexities Of Leadership (from Moses)
We’re just about to start our 6.30 Leadership course here in Dublin, so I have been reflecting a lot on biblical leadership over the last few months. In my own personal bible readings I recently read the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) and was quite amazed about a few things I learned from Moses […]
LIFE GROUP: You Can Change – Chapter 3 (Tim Chester)
This week in our Life Group we looked at the key distinction between the law and the gospel, both for justification (being right with God) and sanctification (becoming like God). We change not by working hard, but by coming to Jesus again and again. In chapter three of You Can Change, Tim Chester drives home very forcefully that after salvation we often […]
THE LAST SUPPER – Jesus Prepares His Church (John 13-17)
The Last Supper must be one of the most famous scenes that has come to us from history. It’s of Jesus sharing the Jewish Passover Meal with his 12 disciples before his lonely and torturous journey to the cross. The record of the supper and the discussion Jesus had with his disciples is found in John 13-17. […]
LIFE GROUPS: You Can Change – Chapter 2 (Tim Chester)
This week in our Life Group we looked at what I consider the most important question when it comes to seeing change in your life: “Why would you like to change?” Tim Chester helpfully examines our motivation for change and highlights that if we are changing for the wrong reasons, whilst our behaviour might change, we will not […]
LIFE GROUPS: You Can Change – Chapter 1 (Tim Chester)
In our church we have small same-sex groups that focus on changing areas of our lives where we want to reflect Christ more. We call them Life Groups because we want to intentionally form the life of Christ in one another. This life can be summed up by the fruit of the Spirit that Paul talks about […]
2 Reflections on Christian Community from Dietrich Bonheoffer
One of our core values as a church is community, and this August we’re going to stop gathering together on a Sunday to spend more time intentionally building community through various activities and lots of food. We’ll kick back into our normal Sunday Gathering routine in September. So this month of ‘life together’ felt like a good […]
Praying the Psalms = Encountering Christ (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
I was re-reading a small book call Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in preparation for a blog that I am writing on true community (watch this space…it will be with you shortly) and as I did I stumbled across Bonhoeffer talking about why we should pray the Psalms. And given our current series, walking with God […]