by Julian | May 22, 2023 | Blog, Personal
I was, perhaps, 9. Resplendent in an old curtain re-purposed as a robe and held in place by a large broach of my mother’s. A homemade helmet and sword completed the costume as I marched purposefully down the left aisle of St Mary’s church. The young people were...
by Julian | May 13, 2023 | Blog, Personal
I used to really get anxious that I wouldn’t be able to answer people’s questions. My experience is that far more frequently I don’t even get the opportunity. More often than not, people back off, change the subject, or otherwise take steps to shut down the...
by Julian | Apr 6, 2023 | Blog, Personal
If so, which ones should I subscribe to? At The Seed, we turn our preach every week into a YouTube video and into an audio podcast (I also upload my preaching notes to our website). You might think there is no real point creating anything other than a video for...
by Julian | Mar 31, 2023 | Blog, Personal
I have recently been listening again to John Lennon’s song ‘Imagine’, and find the lyrics contained in it very disturbing. Its foundational message is that ‘religion is the author of all hate and war and if only we could eradicate it, then the world would be a better,...
by Julian | Mar 19, 2023 | Blog, Personal
If you have teenagers in your church, do they want to be there? Or are they obliged by parents to be there and haven’t yet had the guts to say no?! In the UK the latter is often the case and it is a problem that all churches need to look at. It seems to me that many...
by Julian | Mar 16, 2023 | Blog, Personal
If you neglect the Old Testament in favour of the New Testament, you are in real danger of neglecting the New Testament in favour of the ‘inner witness of the Spirit’. The inner witness of the Spirit is a phrase which comes from various places in the Bible, but...
