Think About It
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I have just got back from a couple of days at a conference. The conference
was called Think. This is partly of course, because it really stretches
your m...
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A Living Community - At Oxford Community Church we are currently in a series on Community Groups, and this Sunday I co-preached on one of my favourite gospel stories in Mark 2 ...5 days ago
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Highlights of Leadership Conference 2025 - I have just returned from 3 days away at the annual Leadership Conference organised by the *Commission* family of churches in Bournemouth. It was brilliant...2 weeks ago
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An Astonishing Season of Church Planting - Radical church planting in villages and towns in the 19th century (mostly).… Continue reading →3 weeks ago
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Eight Years of living with Chronic Illness - So today is the 8th anniversary of my diagnosis with blood cancer. I had been sick for several weeks and therefore the diagnosis was not out of the blue. B...1 month ago
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Beginnings… - Further to fixing the tension problem, I rejigged the heddles so that I get nice wide sheds when I treadle (IYKYK). The whole weaving is so much more plea...2 months ago
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Hope in the darkness - It is my pleasure to welcome Natasha Woodcraft to my blog, as part of her tour with new book The Wanderer’s Legacy. This is part of a series of biblical ...2 months ago
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Welcome - Hello, I’m Jon Cressey – welcome to “My Notes.” The site has moved – if you are not automatically transferred please click here – I will try to fix this a...6 months ago
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Sample Post #12 - This is just placeholder text. Don’t be alarmed, this is just here to fill up space since your finalised copy […]11 months ago
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Detecting if an HTML colour is light or dark - WordPress ships with the Farbtastic color picker, which is great if you want users to be able to select a colour. For a recent plugin I wanted users to be ...11 months ago
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Midsummer - [image: Midsummer] Today is Midsummer’s Eve and the beginning of the BIGGEST celebration in the Swedish calendar. Yes bigger than Christmas, yes bigger th...1 year ago
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Is Revenge a Dish Best Served Cold? - 'Revenge is a dish best served cold' is a saying attributed to a French novel of the 18th Century, but frequently quoted in the 21st. It probably came ou...1 year ago
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How Envato Elements Boosts Your Productivity and Workflow - Craving unlimited creative fuel for your video projects, design ventures, or marketing campaigns? Envato Elements might be your answer. Stepping into thi...1 year ago
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Music Maker - The recent AI conversations I’ve heard and images I’ve seen have been so impressive that I wondered if anyone had created AI music using the same technolog...2 years ago
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My Blog is Moving to a New Home - I wanted to let you know that my blog is moving to a new home. After many years on Google's blogger site it is moving to be integrated into our Kerith we...3 years ago
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Self-Care: 5 Benefits + 10 Easy to Use Ideas to Practice - Practicing self-care can help you feel more energised and confident. It can also lead to improved relationships. In contrast, by neglecting your self-car...3 years ago
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Our Christian Heritage - One evening in 1956, Terry’s sister came home and had a chat with him. “I’ve become a Christian”, she announced. Terry wasn’t interested. “Aren’t we all Ch...3 years ago
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cornish pasties and raspberry jam - After watching The Great British Bake Off recently, the episode where they were tasked with producing Cornish Pasties, I knew I had to make some that more ...4 years ago
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Appreciation - Appreciation is the grease that keeps relationships moving. Nothing is more powerful to convey the value of an individual. Genuine appreciation feeds the...5 years ago
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200 words on Godric - *Godric*, by Frederick Buechner, first published in 1981. If you’ve ever read even the briefest of hagiographies – a record of a Saint’s life that seems...5 years ago
Another new blog
Kevin Gill from Church in the Peak has joined the growing ranks of Newfrontiers bloggers. Stop by his blog, read a post, leave a nice comment and encourage a fellow blogger...
A New Leadership Blog
Following hot on the heels of Matt Hosiers new blog The Leaders Poole comes this new blog from Steve Tibbert of Kings Church Catford.Steve says, "The Leadership blog has just been launched and I am outlining the lessons we have learnt from moving to multiple meetings, which I believe will be helpful to a number of our churches."
Do go and have a read or better yet get your elders to read it...
The Leaders Poole
In a one man mission to write as many blogs as possible and get Poole to the front of everyone's mind, Matt Hosier has launched his 5th blog The Leaders Poole on funnily enough, leadership. Check it out...
Engaging with Culture
UCCF releases an evangelism podcast regularly to equip students to live and speak for Jesus as they're involved in Christian Unions, united in evangelism to grow the local churches. I'd think they're also a good service to the wider church. Latest podcast: "ENGAGING WITH CULTURE"How do we glorify God when playing football, cooking, studying and going to Church? How can living lives that glorify God help in evangelism? Clive Parnell chats with Julian Hardyman (Author of Glory Days) and music comes from Charlie Hall and The Dave Crowder Band.
Download | Subscribe with iTunes
A new affection!
I'm preparing to preach at Frontiers Church Exeter in a couple of weeks time on 2 Corinthians 3. Approaching that I've found myself drawn back to Thomas Chalmers' famous sermon on the expulsive power of a new affection (pdf) if you've not read it, I'd highly recommend it.
"The best way of casting out an impure affection is to admit a pure one; and by the love of what is good to expel the love of what is evil. Thus it is, that the freer gospel, the more sanctifying is the gospel; and the more it is received as a doctrine of grace, the more will it be felt as a doctrine according to godliness."
"...when God sees sinners as though they are saints they actually are saints"
Terry Virgo says we need to pin down our doctrine... we have theologians amongst us!
"Since a believer is in Christ then their standing before God is based on Christ’s standing. The believer is only viewed in the light of Christ’s obedient life, atoning death and resurrection.This union’s outcome, in terms of a believer’s righteousness, is that God views them not on their own in their unrighteousness, but in Christ with his righteousness.
Again, this is not a righteousness within the believer; it is still Christ’s. It is a reality because, as Calvin puts it, we are ‘engrafted into his body – in short, because he deigns to makes us one with him.’
The believer appropriates this righteousness by God counting it to them, which becomes a truth in the context of their union with Christ. When God looks at a believer, because of their positional security in Jesus they actually do have the standing before him that he declares them to have."
Tim Suffield, Clothed in Righteousness. More at TimSuffield.com
"Since a believer is in Christ then their standing before God is based on Christ’s standing. The believer is only viewed in the light of Christ’s obedient life, atoning death and resurrection.This union’s outcome, in terms of a believer’s righteousness, is that God views them not on their own in their unrighteousness, but in Christ with his righteousness. Again, this is not a righteousness within the believer; it is still Christ’s. It is a reality because, as Calvin puts it, we are ‘engrafted into his body – in short, because he deigns to makes us one with him.’
The believer appropriates this righteousness by God counting it to them, which becomes a truth in the context of their union with Christ. When God looks at a believer, because of their positional security in Jesus they actually do have the standing before him that he declares them to have."
Tim Suffield, Clothed in Righteousness. More at TimSuffield.com
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Another new blog
Kevin Gill from Church in the Peak has joined the growing ranks of Newfrontiers bloggers. Stop by his blog, read a post, leave a nice comment and encourage a fellow blogger...
A New Leadership Blog
Following hot on the heels of Matt Hosiers new blog The Leaders Poole comes this new blog from Steve Tibbert of Kings Church Catford.Steve says, "The Leadership blog has just been launched and I am outlining the lessons we have learnt from moving to multiple meetings, which I believe will be helpful to a number of our churches."
Do go and have a read or better yet get your elders to read it...
The Leaders Poole
In a one man mission to write as many blogs as possible and get Poole to the front of everyone's mind, Matt Hosier has launched his 5th blog The Leaders Poole on funnily enough, leadership. Check it out...
Engaging with Culture
UCCF releases an evangelism podcast regularly to equip students to live and speak for Jesus as they're involved in Christian Unions, united in evangelism to grow the local churches. I'd think they're also a good service to the wider church. Latest podcast: "ENGAGING WITH CULTURE"How do we glorify God when playing football, cooking, studying and going to Church? How can living lives that glorify God help in evangelism? Clive Parnell chats with Julian Hardyman (Author of Glory Days) and music comes from Charlie Hall and The Dave Crowder Band.
Download | Subscribe with iTunes
A new affection!
I'm preparing to preach at Frontiers Church Exeter in a couple of weeks time on 2 Corinthians 3. Approaching that I've found myself drawn back to Thomas Chalmers' famous sermon on the expulsive power of a new affection (pdf) if you've not read it, I'd highly recommend it.
"The best way of casting out an impure affection is to admit a pure one; and by the love of what is good to expel the love of what is evil. Thus it is, that the freer gospel, the more sanctifying is the gospel; and the more it is received as a doctrine of grace, the more will it be felt as a doctrine according to godliness."
"...when God sees sinners as though they are saints they actually are saints"
Terry Virgo says we need to pin down our doctrine... we have theologians amongst us!
"Since a believer is in Christ then their standing before God is based on Christ’s standing. The believer is only viewed in the light of Christ’s obedient life, atoning death and resurrection.This union’s outcome, in terms of a believer’s righteousness, is that God views them not on their own in their unrighteousness, but in Christ with his righteousness.
Again, this is not a righteousness within the believer; it is still Christ’s. It is a reality because, as Calvin puts it, we are ‘engrafted into his body – in short, because he deigns to makes us one with him.’
The believer appropriates this righteousness by God counting it to them, which becomes a truth in the context of their union with Christ. When God looks at a believer, because of their positional security in Jesus they actually do have the standing before him that he declares them to have."
Tim Suffield, Clothed in Righteousness. More at TimSuffield.com
"Since a believer is in Christ then their standing before God is based on Christ’s standing. The believer is only viewed in the light of Christ’s obedient life, atoning death and resurrection.This union’s outcome, in terms of a believer’s righteousness, is that God views them not on their own in their unrighteousness, but in Christ with his righteousness. Again, this is not a righteousness within the believer; it is still Christ’s. It is a reality because, as Calvin puts it, we are ‘engrafted into his body – in short, because he deigns to makes us one with him.’
The believer appropriates this righteousness by God counting it to them, which becomes a truth in the context of their union with Christ. When God looks at a believer, because of their positional security in Jesus they actually do have the standing before him that he declares them to have."
Tim Suffield, Clothed in Righteousness. More at TimSuffield.com
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Adrian by virtue of his initials, is first up for a blog review. Sean Green made a comment when I first floated the idea, that we all blog ... -
Newfrontiers Bloggers is proud to welcome a new nation to the Newfrontiers worldwide community of bloggers - King's Church youth group f...
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The more I've blogged the more I've read other blogs and here I'm listing all the blogs I can find from the family of churches I...