The latest book from Mandy Smith 'Confession of an Amateur Saint' is a different kind of leadership book. This book will help you be released from illusions of control into a lifestyle of healing hope. You can pre-order it from NavPress now: tinyurl.com/34tw8rms

The latest in our free Missiology To Go video series features ME! Four sessions on the essential link between the reign of God and the mission of God’s people. Get ready for the big fat gospel, not the skinny version. Sign up here: info.morling.edu.au/missiology-to-…

The Cat in the Hat must be feeling anxious.

I was never very good at science but I know this formula has been well and truly proven.

Christians arent meant to be political centrists or moderates. Thanks Rich Villodas

Here’s a taste of my new video series “Mission and the Reign of God.” You can watch the whole series for free now. facebook.com/share/v/rhGZxe…

"I realised my role models for preaching & theology had predominantly come from men. They were the ones reading the Bible & teaching me how to interpret & communicate it. Yet the voices that shaped me sounded in a different octave to mine." Christine Redwood Wipf and Stock Publishers

Leonard Cohen on prayer. Lovely.

If you haven't seen Kristin Kobes DuMez’s incendiary short film FOR OUR DAUGHTERS, please watch it!! You'll find it infuriating and heartbreaking, but hopefully it will also motivate you to stick with building churches that are safe places for all women. youtube.com/watch?v=IkES4X…

Lausanne presents itself as the friendly face of evangelicalism, but if you’re a Lausanne kind of evangelical you still can’t criticise dispensationalism or express support for ordinary Palestinians, as Ruth Padilla DeBorst found out. sojo.net/articles/news/…

If only someone had warned us the climate was changing…

Help!! My social media feed includes people trying to tell me that Hurricanes Helene and Milton were manufactured by the government/deep state/HAARP/George Soros/Kamala Harris to restrict US Post collecting Trump votes/take over mineral deposits/kill conservatives.

We took vacations at this place every year for many years and never saw anything like this. It’s the Southern Lights over Wellington Rocks in Nambucca Heads, Australia. Incredible.

Can you actually believe this?!?

Just read the stellar list of contributors to the new book by Danielle Strickland on empowering women in church leadership. Wow! Now buy the book and let them inspire you to envision a future where women and men lead together. need-to-know-book.com/buy-book?mc_ci…

There’s a supermoon over Sydney tonight. Incredible! Photo taken not far from my home by ShoreShotPhotography

I really like hyperrealist paintings. They depict the mundane in such detail we are forced to look again at something we might not have looked at twice in real life. Still lifes by Dennis Wojtkiewicz, Chris Krupinski, Miguel Angel Nuñez, and Roy Hodrien

For my American friends, come on down. worldwidemigrationpartners.com/moving-to-aust…

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I’m trying Bluesky out. I’m not leaving FB, but I’m done with X and I never really got into Threads. I’m annoyed by the way Facebook throttles links to articles and I understand Bluesky doesn’t do that. Follow me. Let’s see where all this leads. bsky.app/profile/michae…