Stories to share your faith: the least you need to know part 2
Stories to share your faith: The least you need to know part 2 I wrote at length about how to share your faith with other people and the least you need to know in this article. This video summarises that post into just 90 seconds animation!...
How to share faith by living a distinctive life
It is hard to begin the conversation about faith. In fact, making plans, or trying to work out the best way of introducing Jesus into the conversation can leave a bad taste in the mouth! A far better way is to talk about Jesus in a natural way. And the most natural...
Why do we evangelise? The surprising things that motivate an evangelist.
Being an evangelist isn’t a job. It is a calling. But reflecting on why do we evangelise and what is our motivation is important. Chatting with some evangelists last night, I heard what motivates them, and it wasn’t what you might expect. (There's now a nice tidy...
Over 10 Creative evangelism Christmas ideas for 2020
Creative evangelism at Christmas and through advent this year may seem challenging. But according to the excitement on the Church Christmas and Covid facebook group it’s not stopping us sharing the hope and joy of Christmas. Here are over 10 creative evangelism ideas...
5 ways to show someone you love them when you can’t touch
I referred to the 5languages of love in this article as creative ways in which a church can connect with others. Yes, languages of love is based on a relationships expert called Gary Chapman. But 5LL goes way beyond that. Although this is his focus, he mentions in his...
Quick answers to a quiz you may find useful…
This is a quiz I am using as part of some creative conversation training I am doing. (creative conversations... a phrase I coined a couple of years back but I am seeing in other places. So just to say, a creative conversation is a conversation in which there is some...
PJ cafe style church 2August Mission Church Street
Join us at cafe church this Sunday. Joining details at the bottom of this page. PJ Cafe Church July 19th, 2020 10am for 10:30am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL0hKHDCZ9Y Cafe Church @themissionchurch Street (on facebook)First and third Sundays 10:30am Join Zoom...
PJ cafe church Sun 19th July Jesus the miracle maker
Join us at cafe church this Sunday. Joining details at the bottom of this page. You will need a bible (any version), string or wool to make plaits (aka 3 long strands, preferably in 3 colours if you can), paper and scissors, and a straw. UPDATE:! IF YOU WANT TO, ALSO...
PJ cafe church Sun 5th July
https://youtu.be/VDRGDQCRYE0 Join us at cafe church this Sunday. You will need loo roll tube, scissors, black pen/pencil, glue and bubbles. Bubble bath might work (we will be blowing them...)Print the chat mat as soon as you can (or even after to keep thinking) , look...
PJ Cafe Church Sun 21st June 10.30
Welcome to this month’s PJ cafe church! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E52IYcXvLMI Here are all the details you will need. We will be restreaming though on Youtube and on Facebook as before, so if you just want to watch that’s fine… But why not join in too? A nice...
PJ Cafe Church Sun 7 June 10.30
Welcome to this month's PJ cafe church! Here are all the details you will need. We will be restreaming though on Youtube and on Facebook as before, so if you just want to watch that's fine... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIduDQCjeDQ But why not join in too? The...
Dark mansion, overview
Dark Mansion aims to create one of those hybrid kind of things between digital world and analogue. It's an rpg (dungeon crawler) affair, with the occasional print off, and really easy AI for the old minions and boss levels. Well... will be when I've finished thinking...
RevDJpriest 1
Unusually, I’m asking that you ignore this post please! It’s An experiment to see if I can link from a short post at a later date to a live Mixcloud dj set RevDJpriest 1 Thanks for your patience!
PJ-Cafe Church 3rd May
we are now live (right now!) on YouTube at https://kidzministry.org/tube3may or live on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/revdjpriest/videos/708098273266134/?comment_id=708103569932271 The resources are lower down the page... first the links to join us! We are...
Easter rainbow for 2020
There’s a thing during the cv issue about putting rainbows coloured or drawn by kids in windows. I’ve had a rush job on for over the weekend to produce an outline that can be shared and used. All for free, so do have a go, print off for churches and so on. This is the...
Palm sunday stream
Welcome to Palm Sunday! We are opening things up (zoom...youtube and facebook) from 10.15 so you can gather, meet and chat from then onwards. We will kick off properly at 10.30. Bear with us if there are any tech problems. I will run everything from my laptop though,...
20 tips on How to work from home without going insane
Is it possible to work from home and still thrive, especially if you are used to working in an office where you can connect with lots of people? I will not start a post like everyone else going on about unprecedented times and so on. We are in this. Let's just get...
Jesus the safe harbour
A few weeks ago I was with some national evangelists and we got to talking about stuff, as you do, and someone mentioned that they felt that the imagery of Jesus as a lighthouse wasn't really useful. Now we know that at ports a lighthouse will show the entrance to the...
What joy means 3: Joy and pain fires the bricks to build the joy of life
Joy and pain seem unlikely bed-fellows. They just don’t fit together. Imagine building a house, you’d make it out of bricks. Without fire, a brick is just a block of mud, which will wash away given time. It must be fired. Pain can fire joy into something that you...
What joy means 2: Joy is the simplest form of gratitude and how gratitude can lead you to joy
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude is a common sense for many people. After all, when a gift is given then when you see the delight on someone else’s face it makes you feel good. Here’s a better one: flip the sentiment and you will discover for you what is...
Today’s politics are like Shrodinger’s cat
Boris Johnson prime minister 2019 | podcast S1E7.5 theological response This podcast is just a one off, so falls between 7 and 8. It’s a political response to Boris Johnson being elected to being prime minister. It’s not me saying that it is a good or a bad thing,...
What joy means 1: why bother looking for joy
Looking for joy is an adventure and what joy means can only be found with effort. To go on such an adventure you need some motivation, otherwise, you are just interested, and when it gets tough, you’ll give up. So let's look at some of the benefits of discovering...
Podcast S1E6 Interview with Steve Taylor: Geek ministry and overcoming fear
The Geeks will inherit the earth… ok, maybe not just them. But what is geek culture? Is it bad? And why do they need ministry. PLUS how to overcome fear All in this little podcast. Just to say, sound quality wasn't that brill through the zoom app. Apologies if it...
Pocast S1E5 The art of creative planning part 3 : journaling intro
Journaling has to have a purpose to it otherwise there is little if no point. Crucially, it records what you actually do in a process, so that you can have data to reflect later on as to whether or not it worked, what could be done better, how you felt about it. And...
Podcast S1E4 The art of creative planning part 2: backwards planning
I found it a real surprise the number of people who don't know about backwards planning. But it is a simple trick to be able to start with the end and just work out what the step before is and so on to the beginning. Of course there is the tricky bit when there are...
Podcast S1E3 : the art of creative planning part 1: plan like an artist!
You can of course get really boring and just do that whole SWOT analysis and all that kind of thing. But if you really want to reach beyond the things that other people can, you have to get really creative. Building on my personal experience of working creatively in...
Podcast S1E2: FAIL and growth mindset – find an interesting lesson!
I could write forever about the subject of growth mindset to be honest. I discovered this little FAIL -find and interesting lesson- acronym when my kids were much younger. I liked it. The book on growth mindset was a much more recent discovery. You could express...
Podcast episode 1 : Ambition is not a dirty word
This podcast is available most places you get podcasts. If you can't find it on your fave podcast type channel, then let me know and I will see what I can do Ambition is often seen as bad, but actually if it is framed correctly it is a more useful and positive word...
New Game – the red paperclip challenge. Growth mindset experiment
New game! Today Byron and Roo (my two sons) issued me the red paper clip challenge. Without using money or enhancing any item, beginning with a single paperclip exchange items slowly increasing in value, and see where you get to. It is the ultimate exploration of...
Servant hood, growth mindset and fixed mindset
Servant hood, growth mindset and fixed mindset thinking can change how you do your ministry. It makes for a peaceful ministry. Would you make the choice?
