The book of Daniel is a great book for the church to study in modern times. The culture around us is changing at lightning speed and for Christians it can be hard to keep up, let alone find our place within it. Our world is more polarised, more politicised, more ‘tense’ and more uncertain than […]
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Why a Film Review (Home Alone)?
Every Christmas we review a popular Christmas film as a church, and this Sunday 18th December we’ll be watching Home Alone 1. Do join us at 4.15pm. In this blog post I want to give the rationale for why we do this. I have two basic points, with three applications. (1) Films are like sermons […]
God, Sex & Culture – The art of double listening
John Stott famously coined the phrase “double listening”. He says: “The phrase ‘double listening’ has always been significant for me. And it means that we’re called to listen both to the Word of God, and to today’s world, in order to relate the one to the other”. Over the next 8 weeks, as we consider one of the […]