Reflections on Paul and Silas in jail at Philippi: salvation is more than forgiveness: it’s becoming our best in facing the worst; caring for enemies; subduing the hardest heart; and setting others free at the expense of our own freedom.

You can’t delegate hope, says Ortberg. Churches need leaders full of hope, not despair.The latter spiral downwards, he says. Where does this leave the more naturally melancholy leader?

Interview with Phyllis Tickle, in which she says we don’t merely need to read Scripture silently, we need to hear it read to us audibly. Otherwise we miss an incarnate dimension of it. We also need mystery and midrash, more than exegesis and answers.

Alan Roxburgh explores the film and novel Atonement. How do we tell the Christian story against the Nietzschean atheism of McEwan’s narrative?

This extension for Firefox enables you to backup everything in your Firefox installation, including plugins, settings and even usernames and passwords if you’re so inclined.

This URL gives a list of resources for ministry and worship with children.

There’s hope even for those of us who can only draw matchstick people! This woman describes herself as not so much a prayer warrior, more a ‘prayer popper’. Doodling becomes prayer. Read and see what you think!

A simple article (but none the worse for that) outlining pitfalls that can derail ministry, and what can be done to oppose them.