• Urban Myths

    For thirty-one years I’ve preached week by week from the NIV. I’m expecting to do that for the last time on the Lord’s Day, 30th December. And then, the following Sunday, the NIVs will be packed away and we’ll be reading together from the ESV.

  • Leaving and Cleaving

    When a man and a woman get married, they leave the families in which they were born and a new family unit is formed.  But what should their relationship be with the families they have left?  Do we value our wider families as we should?

  • What makes a marriage?

    Family life should be a reflection of God's own Triune life.  But we have to build families in a fallen world.  We discover God's blueprint for marriage in Genesis.  But then we have to work it out in all the messy situations of life here and now.

  • Koinonia

    I've just returned from our first ever international study week! For five days I’ve sat with eight (occasionally nine) men around a table in a church building in Wetzlar, Germany. And together we’ve worked at understanding Philippians.