I read in the paper recently that sex changes for kids was on the increase. And professionals were warning of possible problems this could cause. Years of study, mountains of research, countless coma inducing papers, and there we have it – allowing kids to change their physical gender is, well, likely to cause some problems!!… [Read more…]
October 24, 2011
Well this is certainly a season for change! Don’t make the mistake of thinking that transition is relevant only for the leadership of our church. The truth is that many families I’ve chatted to are feeling that this is a time of change for them too as God prepares deeper and wider foundations for the… [Read more…]
October 18, 2011
One of the most important conversations in the church today is how to leverage off the gains of the past. The 1990′s saw the office of the apostle restored to parts of the church with profound effects; the most noticable fruit was the prolific planting of churches on every continent. However while the restoration of… [Read more…]
October 8, 2011
A mature church is a fruitful church. Our mandate is NOT to grow the people we lead into “mini-me’s” who need us to always be with them, “Lo, even unto the end of the age. No, our mandate is to help God’s people “grown up” into … Christ Eph 4:11-12 the gifts were left to… [Read more…]
September 20, 2011
“If there was no social networks it would have never been sparked,” said Wael Ghonim the 30 year old Egyptian whose facebook page is credited with fuelling the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak’s regime. Is it possible that the enabler in the fall of Mubarak, who had reigned as Egypt’s president for 30 years,… [Read more…]
September 3, 2011
It’s 2 o’clock in the morning and below my balcony the freeway is alive with cars rushing this way and that. This city doesn’t sleep. There is a frenetic energy being exerted to build a city that will last. I love cities. I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s the buzz, the diversity, the history or… [Read more…]
August 26, 2011
A mantra of leadership gurus is that leaders must be able to see the bigger picture. A leader who gets so caught up in day to day activities that he loses perspective on how these micro realities fit into God’s meta-narrative, is a deficient leader. There are a couple of important reasons: They need to… [Read more…]
August 23, 2011
John 12:26 ESV If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him. I recall a time we were driving up to Harare with a team from Durban. We had driven 12 hours to the border and planned… [Read more…]
March 4, 2012
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