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I have been thinking a bit about Tiger Woods recently… The dynamics at work in public and private life are worth considering. Celebrities like Tiger have no qualms about using the media to magnify their lives on the global stage, increasing their fame and fortune as they do so. But the necessary consequence of this…
READ MOREIf these billboards from Britain are coming to a bus near you, head for Ecclesiastes and preach your little heart out. I’d start with expounding the text on the side of the bus … then I’d go to the sympathetic approval of such a text in the early chapters of Ecclesiastes … before going to…
READ MOREThis new website with its various bloggish features is now up and running http://kiwimadepreaching.wordpress.com/ Become part of the community – and enjoy! nice chatting Paul
READ MORELater today I head off for my first ever visit to Papua New Guinea where we will be launching the work of Langham Preaching. More than 100 pastors and leaders will be gathering from around the country… This follows visits to Thailand (2x), Solomon Islands, Pakistan, China, Uganda, India, Singapore, and Cambodia. What a year…
READ MOREEver noticed how in our younger student years we gravitate towards the issues and debates which surround 1 Corinthians? They really heat us up as we identify in various ways with the grocery-like list of church-problems which these pages contain… Then after life is lived for awhile, the ups and downs of ministry experienced, 2…
READ MOREWhat comes to mind when you hear the word ‘hosting’? I think of hospitality, welcome, warmth, service, humility, quietness, graciousness, inclusion, generosity, making-space-for-others-to-shine … Within weeks of finishing the middle book of the Simon Walker trilogy on leadership where he suggests this idea of the leader being a ‘host’, I find myself reading a book…
READ MOREThere is something of the concentric circles in this trilogy… We shift from the personal character of the leader (vol 1) to the pragmatics of leadership, specially in its use of power (vol 2) and now the politics of leadership as we discover its influence in the broad sweep of large populations of people over…
READ MOREHow ironic is this… With 200+ books on preaching on my shelves and with 20 years of teaching preaching in the classroom and with a multitude of moans about ‘why can’t just one of those books serve as a textbook in just one of those years in the classroom’ – well, in the year that…
READ MOREIt happened again. Sitting in yet another Majority World church context – this time the Graduation Ceremony of the Phnom Penh Bible School in Cambodia – and I find it staring me in the face from the front wall in huge font. The whole focus is on maturity: “help your people grow in Christ”. This…
READ MOREYes, a serious author. So serious that you really should check her out. Jasmine May Dodson has written and illustrated the most gorgeous little children’s book. It is called The Fancy Fable of the Fairy’s Frock. Check out this page: “Left and right they lookedand cocked their headsfor the way they had comewas now gobbled…
READ MOREAbout Me
the art of unpacking
After a childhood in India, a theological training in the USA and a pastoral ministry in Southland (New Zealand), I spent twenty years in theological education in New Zealand — first at Laidlaw College and then at Carey Baptist College, where I served as principal. In 2009 I began working with Langham Partnership and since 2013 I have been the Programme Director (Langham Preaching). Through it all I've cherished the experience of the 'gracious hand of God upon me' and I've relished the opportunity to 'unpack', or exegete, all that I encounter in my walk through life with Jesus.