"I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions." Elie Wiesel Over the next few blog posts I'll be giving you a sneak peek into part of my mental process of preparing for sermons. I don't have a set routine but there are some tools I often use to help unlock a passage of scripture. One of the things I often to do is to think through the questions I have about a passage. I don't always find an answer to every question but at times

​ If you've spoken to me recently about church and the future there will be some key phrases which will keep popping up. (If you've not picked my brain of late then let me buy you a coffee and we can chat.) Some of the phrases which you will hear are "missional", "outward facing", "discipleship", "communitas", "de-emasculating", "incarnational", "offensively gracious", "rejection of one man ministry", "counter cultural generosity" and many others. While any of these would mak