The Isolated…
Friday, May 7th, 2010 Posted in Church | 1 Comment »Isolation – self induced, by personal living circumstance or by oppression – is one of the greatest threats to people, including Christians. One of the greatest challenges to Christians living under religious persecution, oppression and restrictions is isolation, both from God’s ...
Great Debates: where to read more
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Church, History | No Comments »After our series on Great Debates at Tuesday Hub, a few people have asked me what they could read to find out more. If you're interested in reading some church history, here's two titles I recommend (and yes, camp people, ...
Why these books and not those?
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in Books, Church, History | No Comments »Last Tuesday at Hub we explored the way in which the New Testament formed, as churches shared documents, built their libraries, and decided which books they would read in church and trust for teaching. But how did the churches know whether ...
The forgotten day of Easter: Maundy Thursday
Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in Church, Theology | No Comments »Today is Maundy Thursday. It doesn't often get a guernsey in the Easter celebrations of a lot of our evangelical churches. But we can't properly understand what happened on Good Friday without the events of Maundy Thursday. The day before Jesus ...
City, Tribe and Clan: Thinking Unichurch
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 Posted in Church | No Comments »As our church has grown in the past couple of years (Soli Deo Gloria) many of us have noticed that the whole feel and experience of Unichurch has changed in the process. At our current size, some things are better, ...
Dead guys who dominate: Polycarp
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Posted in Church, History | No Comments »One of the letters that Ignatius sent on his way to Rome was to Polycarp, the young leader of the church in Smyrna (now Izmir in Turkey). In the letter, Ignatius encouraged Polycarp to take seriously his responsibilities as a ...
Dead guys who dominate: Ignatius
Friday, March 20th, 2009 Posted in Church, History | 1 Comment »Around AD 107, Ignatius, a church leader in Antioch, was condemned to death by Roman authorities. At that time, it was illegal to be a Christian in the Roman Empire, because Christianity was opposed to the official religion of the ...
Kiddies For Christ (aka KFC Original Recipe)
Friday, February 6th, 2009 Posted in Church | No Comments »This year I'm taking on helping out at Kids Church at the St Matt's 10am congregation. I'll be helping to teach the little tots—Kindergaten and Preschool. Last Sunday was the first week for the year. We got to meet the ...
On Doubt
Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Church | 3 Comments »After a summer of hardly preaching at all, on Sunday 8 Feb I begin preaching again at Unichurch. Over the year I'll be preaching on Jonah, a series on how God brings change in us, and Romans 1-8. However, on ...
Church planting
Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Church | No Comments »In about 1 hour from writing this post Kanishka will be speaking at Unichurch 7pm on the topic of church planting. Great subject. Can't wait. Meanwhile, our very own humble church-plant, Unichurch International, resumed meeting for 2009 this morning with a ...
