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 July 14, 2010 - by Stephen Murray
On the Move for Support Raising
On Friday Robin and I head off to Johannesburg and Durban for two weeks. The first purpose of our trip is to get a bit of rest time in. Church planting is busy work and its been full steam ahead since the beginning of the year. The second purpose is to continue raising the profile of what we’re doing in Cape Town and trying to secure financial support for the next two years. If our work here in Cape Town is something you feel you could be investing in then please consider supporting us in this venture in seeing God’s kingdom being advanced in the important city of Cape Town.
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: [...]
Revive 09
by Stephen Murray on August 19, 2009
Preaching to the Heart
by Stephen Murray on May 29, 2009
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On the Move for Support Raising
On Friday Robin and I head off to Johannesburg and Durban for two weeks. The first purpose of our trip is to get a bit of rest time in. Church planting is busy work and its been full steam ahead since the beginning of the year. The second purpose is to continue raising the profile [...]
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Cape Town the Global City
Here’s something you probably didn’t know: According to the Global World Cities Ranking, Cape Town is the 16th (level with 5 other cities) most prominent city in the world where English is the Lingua Franca (English is not necessarily the most widely spoken language in each of these cases but it is the language on which each [...]
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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 [...]
Stephen Murray
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.
