Simply Preaching is really fun!

Falling Upward required the most from me in terms of discernment.

Just to add: I enjoyed everything I read this year except The Outsider (which I think I just didn’t understand). I found CS Lewis disappointing because I had high expectations. But I think everything I read except The Outsider was worth reading.

Oh I quite enjoyed it, but more to my surprise I enjoyed The Old Man and the Sea — which is about an old man at sea for days and days and should’ve been boring (to me) but I found it gripping.

The Jubilee Gospel and Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes are the ones that have stayed with me the most. I learnt a lot from Advent. I was moved / distressed by the 2 autobiographies I read. And just finishing One With My Lord now, which I have really enjoyed.

These were just my reads — I wouldn’t recommend them all! I think I’m traumatised by Of Mice and Men! I didn’t get The Outsider at all. And surprisingly I didn’t really enjoy A Year with CS Lewis…

24 books read in 2024.

Highlights:

— The Jubilee Gospel (great read for those wanting to understand the name @jubileeplus.bsky.social)

— Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes

And yes, I read my own book! (In a studio, recording the audiobook, out 10 Jan 2025 with SPCK.)

#TisMercyAll

Read what happened when, 45 years ago, a man holding a frozen chicken knocked on the door of Rob & Dianne Parsons’ home. Beautiful.

Featured in the Christmas edition of The Week. 🎄

"The most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and the poorest people on Earth." — #JimmyCarter

It’s my Birthday Eve Eve Eve!

I’d highly recommend keeping a 5-year journal. I’m 3.5 years in and it brings me so much joy as I look back with wonder and amazement at what Jesus has done in me and around me.

The Lord has dealt bountifully with me! (Ps. 116:7)

#TisMercyAll

Screenshot from article reads: I find it fascinating that we flock to visit a baby but flee from visiting people with dementia. We say: “She doesn’t remember me”, or: “He won’t even recall my visit tomorrow”, as if their lack of remembering is grounds for us forgetting about them, too. Yet what baby remembers their visitors?

Yes. This is a really good point. Why do we have this odd double-standard? (I confess, I have it too.)

A great, brief, thought-provoking, helpful post.

www.premierchristianity.com/opinion/3-wa...

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Pastor: that’s where God was carrying me

Our top 5 books of 2024 Across the year, en have reviewed 98 of the very latest Christian books - from commentaries to biographies. Here are our top five recommended reads this year.1. Tis Mercy All: The Power of Mercy in a ...

Our top 5 books of the year 🏆

We've reviewed nearly 100 of the latest Christian books in 2024. Here, our Reviews editor John Woods shares en's top five.

Congrats @danitreweek.bsky.social, John Lennox, Rebecca McLaughlin, @natwillnatter.bsky.social, Peter Williams

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Excellent. Well done, Natalie. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Our top 5 books of 2024 Across the year, en have reviewed 98 of the very latest Christian books - from commentaries to biographies. Here are our top five recommended reads this year.1. Tis Mercy All: The Power of Mercy in a ...

Wow, what a joy and honour to be among Evangelicals Now’s top books of the year! Thanks so much. 🥰🙌🏼

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@evangelicalsnow.bsky.social

Cheapest I’ve seen ‘Tis Mercy All online, for anyone still doing their Christmas shopping! #TisMercyAll

The secret to joy this Christmas Find your joy in giving, not receiving this festive season, says Natalie Williams

If your Christmas is characterised by abundance rather than lack, what can you give, share or do to make someone else’s day a cause for joy instead of sorrow?

www.premierchristianity.com/columnists/t...

“The love of God is the blazing fire that purifies us, remakes us, and sets right all that is broken in us and in the world… And it is this love that is coming for us.” — Tish Harrison Warren #Advent

He Came Down || Special Needs Nativity || A Powerful Christmas Story YouTube video by Speak Life

This beautiful retelling of the Christmas story features many precious friends (watch ‘til the end). 🎄 youtu.be/bAhzI6bI5WI

So lovely!

Coldplay - ALL MY LOVE (Official Video) (Directors' Cut) YouTube video by Coldplay

Man, I love this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Ol...

“Faith is wagering our lives on the hope that we have, trusting it enough to act on it.” — Tish Harrison Warren

Well, this is exciting — my first audiobook is coming out in January! It was so much fun to record it!

This was really interesting, challenging and enlightening — thanks Jennie!

“There’s a God-shaped hole in every human heart. If it doesn’t get filled with something noble and elevated, modern society will quickly pump it full of garbage.” — Jonathan Haidt

“Joy is the gigantic secret of the Christian.” — GK Chesterton

How is the relationship between euthanasia and social isolation (+ autism & #LD) playing out in mainland Europe right now? This is the tragic story I began my #LD & Poverty seminar with at #CTCC24.

(Ian Birrell, The Independent, 7/10/24)