In the Coracle

Snippets of Truth

December 4th, 2006, No Comments

For completely unrelated-to-church reasons, I recently came across this snippet about snippets:

“Our Lord was careful to consider the text in relation to the context and the whole tenor and teaching of Scripture. The habit of taking a little snippet of a verse from any part of the Bible and making it the subject of [...]

Two Great Easter Sermons about Itching Ears

April 19th, 2006, 1 Comment

Easter weekend brings us two timely sermons on similar topics from wonderful communicators:
From Anglican Bishiop N. T. Wright:
And the reason that I labour this alternative worldview, and highlight the ways in which it represents not just a variation on the genuine path of Jesus and his first followers but a full-scale rejection and overturning of [...]

When You Don’t Know What to Preach

March 10th, 2006, 2 Comments

Frequently I have no idea what to preach* about. Usually I have a Biblical text, or an understanding of what our need for spiritual formation is, but every so often I have no idea how a sermon can flow out of it. So in that circumstance usually I give up, bring the text [...]

Sermon//Discussion – How does Jesus train his disciples?

February 2nd, 2006, No Comments

As I wrote a while back, we’re doing a parallel processing exercise at the moment, looking at Jesus from a fresh perspective and discussing our way through all 4 gospels at once.
This past Sunday we discussed the question, “how does Jesus train his disciples?”. I recorded the discussion on my iRiver, did some very [...]

A survey of emerging preaching forms

November 30th, 2005, No Comments

Here’s a survey of emerging preaching forms from an article at faithworks.com which interviews Doug Pagitt, Rudy Carrasco, Karen Ward, Tim Keel, Tony Jones and others.

In Praise of Bob Hyatt’s Sermon//Discussions

November 30th, 2005, 1 Comment

In the last day or two I’ve been spending time over at Bob Hyatt’s blog and listening to his podcasts, and finding yet another close relative in this style of church and ministry.
I’ve not yet met Bob in real life or even email, but I do see his comments over on Radical Congruency and other [...]