Bear Grylls at HTB

Just watched a really interesting and fun video of Bear Grylls being interviewed by Nicky Gumbel at Holy Trinity Brompton. Well worth check ing out. The way Bear descibes his faith is for me a great model of evangelism – what he speaks about really sounds like ‘good news’. It’s not about delivering packets of doctrine, ‘religion’ or formulas; instead he speaks simply but eloquently about ‘backbone’, ‘strength’, ‘comfort’ and ‘peace’. And he does some cool martial arts moves on one of the priests… Now that’s church!

Watch it here (scroll down and click link)

Wilderness

Just listened to a very insightful and moving message by Greg Boyd, an excellent theologian and preacher if you have not come across him before. In it he talks about the Wilderness in which we find ourselves, the suffering and evil of the world. This is certainly one of the most clear and eloquent preaches I have heard on this difficult and important topic. I particularly recommend listening to the conversation he has with Scot towards the end of the file. Very illuminating to us that would seek to rush in and ‘fix’ the brokenness too quickly… or be discouraged when the brokenness remains.

Watch it here

Good News, Repentence and the Kingdom

These are my notes from Sunday’s preach if anyone would like to check them out… I rambled a lot – should have stuck to my notes a bit more! Oh well.

Repent