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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”

Bit personal this time, but I guess most people reading this blog are interested in my personal journey… 10.  I got to hear Andrew Wommack share his views on why universalism and preterism are wrong, and it was exceptionally powerful.  These ideas are making massive inroads in the UK and messing up churches, and itContinue reading “10 Reasons I Am Grateful for my trip to America”

Fascination in end times seems to be at an all time high.  I would say I am being asked more questions about end times than anything. Yet with all the interest, there is a lot of nonsense out there.  Some people are falling for date setting, for signs in the heaven that have nothing toContinue reading “End Times!”

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I make no apologies for everything in this list being challenging.  You need to be challenged about how you handle money, or you will never walk in your dreams.  It’s that simple. If you are not saving, you hate your future self. If you don’t tithe, you don’t believe God is good.  Deep down youContinue reading “10 Tough Truths About Money”

Sometimes I watch people make a foolish decision and I think “yup, that could be me, I have definitely been that dumb before”.  Other times I was people make a decision and I just don’t understand.  I don’t grasp how they got to that point or how their priorities could be so far from whatContinue reading “7 People I Can’t Get My Head Around”

This is the most important conference we as a church have ever put on.  I say that without any sense of exaggeration or hype.  We have gathered our own leaders and preachers and pastors and evangelists.  There are church networks ten-twenty-one hundred times the size of ours who could not gather such a gifted andContinue reading “Heal the Nations 2015”

One of the things that happens a lot is that people as Christians are told “judge not”.  It’s like a mantra.  The whole world has embraced it now – we must not judge. Now if you take that to logical extremes it’s absurd!  There are two pieces of meat, one is rotten and smells, theContinue reading “Jurisdiction 2: To Judge or Not To Judge”