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The fourth of our cultural pillars is “Filled With Love”.  God is looking for a church filled with love, that loves one another as Christ has loved us.  That knows the love of God that passes all understanding and yields and allows that love to manifest through us. Now this cultural pillar is something thatContinue reading “Our Culture 04: Filled With Love”

A big part of our culture in Tree of Life Church is building a church full of the nations.  Now if you are in a village in the middle of Kenya, then it is going to be impossible for you to build a multi-ethnic church; but if you are in London and you are buildingContinue reading “Our Culture 03: Full of the Nations”

We live in a strange church age.  We live in an age where the Pentecostals and charismatics shy away from the Holy Spirit.  They deny tongues, they relegate healing to a secret back room in the service.  Or in other churches, the gifts are limited (restricted?) to the full time super-anointed clergy where the laityContinue reading “Our Culture 02: Full of the Spirit”

One of the things I heard again at the leadership conference I went to in Hull was to remember the importance and power of culture.  Dreams and visions are great – we need to set a destination, but we also have to let people know how to do what they should to to be partContinue reading “Our Culture 01: Full of the Word”

Just had the awesome privilege from being at a senior pastor’s conference hosted by Jarrod Cooper. There was a lot of information and inspiration at the conference, and all the speakers brought good messages. But the most powerful message for me was brought by Ken Gott, who I haven’t heard preach for nearly twenty years.Continue reading “5 Leadership Lessons from Ken Gott”

I am currently in Rome at a conference for pastors and leaders across Europe.  One of the speakers is Juan Caron, pastor of Passion for Christ Church in Madrid. This church has over 2000 members and last year baptized over 600 new converts.  I have had the honour of hearing the man minister and meetContinue reading “5 Leadership Lessons from Juan Caron”

We have been speaking about spiritual fathers in the church for the last few weeks, and it has been beneficial teaching.  One thing I find is that many people in the church are wondering why there are so few fathers in the body of Christ.  Many people have the heart’s cry “where are the fathers?”Continue reading “Spiritual Fathers 06 -Where Are the Sons?”

Sometimes someone will introduce you to evils.  Some of you would never have known the evil, wicked, selfish things that you know about if someone else hadn’t brought that to birth in you!  Some people have baptized others into sin, selfishness, gossip, criticism, fornication, adultery and lying. Beware of these people.  Do not take onContinue reading “Spiritual Fathers 05: The Father of Sin”

For though ye have ten thousands instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel  (1 Cor. 4.15) When it comes to physical fathers, you get one and that’s that.  So when it comes to spiritual fathers it can be expected that the processContinue reading “Spiritual Fathers 04: The Relay of Fathers”

I was about to send this out as an email to my pastors, as it is something I think all of us have been through even in the short space we have been in 2016.  And it’s not something that is nice to handle, it feels bad and it hurts, but we have to keepContinue reading “Getting Punched By Rocky – And Still Standing!”