In God’s kindness, this year I had the joy of helping with organising the annual East Auckland Combined Churches Easter Sunrise service. As mentioned before by Rev Richard Waugh (who helped to start these sunrise services over 30 years ago), it’s a small but significant opportunity to partner with other local churches to share our …
Category Archives: Evangelism
Tenebrae, online
Tenebrae means “darkness” or “shadows”. As an experiement, I read through the events surrounding Jesus’s final few hours with some dear friends from around the world. Come and pause from all the chaos, hear Jesus’s last words before He died, and reflect on the darkness He took on the cross to rescue sinners. If you’d …
Review: Life Explored by CE Ministries
Summary: Life Explored by CE Ministries is ambitious, compelling, well-produced and divisive. It accurately presents the Bible’s grand narrative of humanity’s age-old longing for happiness, found most fully in the unsearchable riches of God Himself in Jesus Christ. The combination of engaging preaching, high-quality film-making, and discussion-based relationships combine to effectively transform the hearts …
What dangerous idea has the greatest potential to change the world for the better?
These were my notes when opening this morning’s Easter Sunday service at HBC. Christ is risen; He is risen indeed! I’d like to ask you a question this morning: “What dangerous idea has the greatest potential to change the world for the better?” Four panellists were asked this question late last year in a Q&A …
Atheists meet together to “worship”
Recently two London comedians decided to start a Sunday Assembly “anyone who wants to live better, help often and wonder more”. The idea of an atheist church has been wildly successful,with packed weekly services since the first gathering in January (they now run two services!). It’s been such a hit that the organisers are …