Author Archives: Tree of Life Church

I say what *would* I do, but actually it is what I did do.  I had four children yet was never late, my eldest son was born Wednesday I was in church with my wife and him on the Sunday after.  I have always valued local church.  When I lived in Ipswich, the only SundayContinue reading “What I Would Do If I was in a Local Church (and not the pastor)”

A lot of people don’t grasp there are two levels of wisdom.  I call them practical wisdom and honour wisdom.  Practical wisdom involves the nuts and bolts of how to do something, what to do and how to do it well. Honour wisdom on the other hand answers the two most important questions in theContinue reading “There Are 50 Ways To Leave Your Church (part 5 The Two Levels of Wisdom)”

For the last few weeks, we have been looking at leaving churches in a godly way.  A lot of people have emailed me or Facebook’d me after reading the blog and it has really helped them – they were planning to leave a church and found out how to do it properly with dignity and grace.Continue reading “There Are 50 Ways To Leave Your Church (part 4 Jacob and Moses)”

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we behold his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth (John 1.14) When Jesus lived on planet earth, He was full of grace and truth.  Not full of grace, that’s not Jesus.  Not full ofContinue reading “The Life Changing Power of Grace Mixed With Truth!”

You will never be a success until you understand that the universe is held together and created with inviolable laws or principles that cannot be violated. An example in the natural realm that science can study and measure is what is commonly called the law of gravity.  Now when the word “law” is used here,Continue reading “The Law of Genesis”

Here is our final week’s blogging on leaving churches.  It’s a sort of check list to help you know you are leaving well.  I have seen people leave great churches well and go on to greatness, I have seen people leave really dysfunctional churches for the right reasons but leave the wrong way and theyContinue reading “There Are 50 Ways To Leave Your Church (part 3 Leaving Checklist)”

In our first post in this series (which can be found here), I shared about good and bad reasons to leave a local church.  In that post, I quoted the pastor’s pastor, Bob Yandian, as saying most people leave churches offended.  From my own experience and discussions with many other church leaders that is most definitelyContinue reading “There Are 50 Ways To Leave Your Church (part 2 Don’t Leave Offended)”

There are definitely more than fifty ways to leave a church. You could just sit further and further back each week and come less and less until you have shrunk out of the back door. You could leave dramatically and cause a scene, email a bunch of people, hold secret meetings and tell everyone whyContinue reading “There Are 50 Ways to Leave Your Church! (part 1 – why leave)”

Every so often I will make a decision that leads to someone saying about Tree of Life “I thought this was a grace church!” Maybe I remove someone from the worship team for sexual immorality, or ask someone not to share a prophetic word that is a bit kooky, or preach a message that challengesContinue reading “I Thought This Was A Grace Church!?!”

I am writing this while getting ready to fly from Boston to Dublin, and we are watching the safety video. One of the things that we are told during these safety videos is that if you are travelling with people who for whatever reason cannot our their oxygen masks on themselves you should make sureContinue reading “More Wisdom from a Plane”