Posted on September 18, 2009 - by Stephen Murray
Part of Our Presentation
This is some of what we presented at the church planting center last Tuesday morning. We made everyone here fall in love in Cape Town.
Posted on December 11, 2009 - by Stephen Murray
The Incarnation
In the build up to Christmas I thought I’d have a go at two sermons on the doctrine of the incarnation. In the first sermon I explored a little bit of just exactly what the incarnation is and why its so important, in the second sermon I looked at how the incarnation completely changes the way we live and turns our world upside down.
Posted on September 18, 2009 - by Stephen Murray
New York Trip: Part III
I think I’m going to lose some weight over the course of this trip with all the walking – none of the places we need to go to regularly are right next to a subway station, we always have to walk a few blocks so I’m getting plenty of exercise (although that huge calzone pizza [...]
Posted on September 16, 2009 - by Stephen Murray
New York Trip: Part II
Ok, so these updates are not exactly daily – but there’s a lot going on that keeps us really busy so that’s my excuse. It’s Tuesday afternoon as I write this, I’m sitting in our apartment’s living room still enjoying the amazing view of Manhattan. We’ve been here for a week now and it’s still [...]
Posted on September 9, 2009 - by Stephen Murray
New York Trip: Part I
That’s the night time view of downtown Manhattan from our Hoboken apartment. We’re here at last – it took us what seemed like an age but the view is definitely worth it! We left Cape Town at lunchtime on Sunday – flew to Jozi – spent 5 hours in the airport there (I like what [...]
Posted on September 3, 2009 - by Stephen Murray
New York Trip
Two days to go before Robin and I fly off to New York City. We’re going to use this blog as the base of our communication with people all over the place, giving you daily (or at least every second or third day) updates from our trip. We’re heading to New York primarily to take [...]
Posted on August 27, 2009 - by Stephen Murray
Michael Jensen’s ‘you’: a review
‘Who are you?’ – it’s almost become a little bit of conversational humour to talk about people ‘finding themselves’ or getting to grips with who ‘you’ really are – as if most of us are fairly secure people comfortable with our identity and purpose in this giant universe. The short amount of time I’ve spent [...]
Posted on August 24, 2009 - by Stephen Murray
Rethink Mission
Jonathan McIntosh is a really cool guy that I met in St Louis last year when I visited the Journey Church. He’s an amazing thinker about cultural engagement and the developer of some really creative cultural engagement ministries at the Journey, some of which I got to see last year and which I’ll hopefully be [...]
Posted on August 21, 2009 - by Stephen Murray
Ruth Sermons Online
The four sermons I preached on the fantastic little Old Testament book of Ruth are now available online. I preached them all at St Stephen’s Bible Church in Claremont, Cape Town (finished the last one this last Sunday evening) . You can get them here:
Ruth 1: The Return Journey
Ruth 2: The Outsider
Ruth 3: Rest
Ruth 4: [...]
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Preaching to the Heart
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New Partnership Blog
As many of you know we’re starting the whole church planting thing all over again come the beginning of 2010 as we join a team planting VOX City Church in the center of Cape Town. This is both an enormously exciting and enormously scary venture for Robin and I because we’re stepping out of some [...]
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New York Trip: Part VII
New York – Knoxville – New York. That’s been our movement over the weekend. On Friday morning at 3am we got up and flew out of Newark Airport to Knoxville, Tennessee. There we spent the weekend with folk from Cedar Springs Presbyterian. Most of the weekend was spent meeting people from the church and speaking [...]
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New York Trip: Part VI
Two Sundays have come and gone since I last updated you (ya – sorry about that – things have been crazy busy). A lot has happened and this post will turn into an essay if I give you all the details so I’ll pick out the highlights of the last 12 days or so.
From the [...]
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New York Trip: Part V
So, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday update…
Tuesday we listened to some of the intensive guys give presentations about their future plants and then we watched Tim Keller’s address at last year’s Dwell Conference, entitled ‘Dwelling in the Gospel‘. After that we had a bit of fun planning a philosophy of ministry for a simulated occasion and [...]
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New York Trip: Part IV
I guess you can only appreciate Times Square (above) when you’re actually there. I think I’ve seen a hundred pictures or clips of the area but it’s quite something to see all the lit up advertising. So, yes, we were in Times Square this weekend, but let me back track a bit first…
On Friday we [...]
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Christian, husband to my beautiful Robin, missional dreamer, pastor, church planter, Arsenal, Sharks and Springbok supporter, surfer (in the real sea), patriotic South African, Capetonian. Find out more about the church planting work I'm involved in at my support blog.
