Cross-Cultural Ministry Essay

I’m currently working on an essay with the following topic:
In the light of the Apostle Paul’s strategy to cross cultures for the “sake of the gospel”, discuss the following:

We need to find another way of defining our faith that is not so defensive, another way of affirming our faith that is not so aggressive; a [...]

Where’s Tim?

As is so often the case I’ve been notably absent from the blogosphere. I have been doing a few interesting bits and pieces though.
- Baby business is coming along well. The beautiful Jay is 36 weeks today so the little man (Tuss) is due to arrive any time in the next 4 weeks.
- I’ve started [...]

James 2 in the real world

Louay has spent much of his life as a refugee. He grew up in a Christian family in Iraq under the regime of Sadaam Hussein, they were part of a minority group in the country. Their particular religion had freedom to exist in the country, but not truly freedom to live or be expressed. The [...]

How good would this be as an assignment?

I’ve been reading Ryan Bolger’s Blog and came across this awesome assignment he set for his class. If I wasn’t so busy doing my own assignments I think I’d do this one just for fun!
Continuing Jesus’ Mission into the World (Part Two):
Piggy-backing on my last post on Continuing Jesus’ Mission into the World, I wanted [...]

Jesus’ Discipleship

I had to write an essay on Jesus’ process of developing disciples and apply it to my context. I thought I’d post it so you can read it if you’re interested.

Jesus’ Discipleship
As I read through the gospels I see Jesus engaging people from all spheres of society with his life and message of the kingdom [...]

Creative Reflection

I had to write a creative reflection for uni about what I would do mission/ministry wise if I knew the world was ending in five years. It’s pretty long, but I thought I’d post it anyway.

What would I do if the world were ending in five years?
I believe that people’s lives are transformed as they [...]

Key character qualities of a post-modern missional leader essay

The last couple of days I’ve been writing an essay on the key character qualities of a post-modern missional leader. It’s not due for a bit over a week but I’ve done my first draft (which is usually also my final draft) so I thought I’d post it and see what people thought. You can [...]

ACOM Missional Leadership Intensive with Stephen Said

The other week I had my first ACOM Intensive. Stephen Said was the facilitator and it was on the subject of Missional Leadership. I’m not a great note taker, in fact I really just wrote down things that interested me or that I was asked to. Anyway here are my notes …
One of the first [...]

Literature Review - Emerging Churches - Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger

I’ve done a literature review on the Gibbs and Bolger book I’ve been reading Emerging Churches for uni. I’ve posted it here if you’re interested. Although I do want to say that I feel like the word limit forced me to say a lot of nothing rather than a whole bunch of something that I [...]

Reading, reading, reading.

I mentioned previously that I’m studying at ACOM this year. In this first trimester (they have three not two blocks of study during the year) I am doing a subject called Missional Leadership for which I will be reading ‘Church Next’ by Eddie Gibbs and Ian Coffey and ‘Leadership Next’ by Eddie Gibbs. I’m also [...]