4 out of 7 Churches…

I’ve now written or spoken about four of the churches in Revelation 2-3 and you might be interested to hear and read it. Letters to tolerant and compromised churches: Pergamum and Thyatira (Revelation 2:12-29) First, the churches of Pergamum and Thyatira: you can hear my sermon and see the presentation on the Canley website. Second, […]

Debunking ridiculous criticisms of Occupy Together

Some of the criticisms I have heard of the Occupy protesters have been utterly ridiculous. I’ll lay them out (and take them down a bit too) below the video, but you might like to see I’m not making them up – they are that obviously facile! Number 1: “Protests are pointless, they achieve nothing”. Polly Toynbee’s response […]

Straw men and the death of ideology

I made the mistake of confusing  Tim Ferriss with Timothy Ferriss, so I was surprised to be disappointed with an article on Wired, “Timothy Ferriss: The World of the Intellectual vs. The World of the Engineer”. I often read Tim’s blog, I’m fascinated by his approach to self-experimentation. So the over-simplification and scientism of the article surprised […]

Reading Revelation 1

[These are the notes prepared for the housegroups at Canley Community Church – the first in a series on the letters to the seven churches.]  “We’ll be reading the book of Revelation for the next few weeks.” That’s a scary thought for lots of Christians – not just because of the scary things that are […]