Author: James Petticrew
Holy Tenacity by James Petticrew
August 24, 2018
I have been reading Jeremiah over the past couple of weeks – not an easy read in many ways – but…
Christian Community: Why I Can’t Give Up on Church by James Petticrew
June 15, 2017
There are some things that I know I should believe with my head, but I struggle because I don’t experience them in my heart.
Kodak, Hirsch, and the Future of the Church by James Petticrew
January 11, 2017
I doubt there is a more used and less understood word in the contemporary church than “missional.” Missional is not about being better at being Kodak in a digital photograph world.
Money, Money, Money by James Petticrew
September 14, 2016
The danger of our silence is that if we ignore the subject of money, both the mission of the Kingdom of God and the spirituality of God’s people will ultimately be impoverished.
Don’t Say It Unless You Mean It by James Petticrew
August 8, 2016
I love that concept, that whenever we pray, “your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” we are committing ourselves as Christ followers and churches to fashioning foretastes of the world to come in the here and now.
The 7 Works of Corporal Mercy (or How Jesus Evaluates the Ministry of His Church) by James Petticrew
June 6, 2016
The more I read those words and reflected on Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 25 the more it struck me that the Seven Works of Corporal Mercy are not an anachronistic relic of the Medieval church but constitute a very effective evaluation tool for the contemporary church.
Ordinary Radicals by James Petticrew
February 8, 2016
Holiness, because it’s a lifestyle shaped not by the culture we are surrounded by but by a Holy God, is a radically different lifestyle.
Holy Tenacity by James Petticrew
January 7, 2016
Yet day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, and decade after decade, Jeremiah persistently did what God had called him to do. He didn’t give up, he didn’t move to a city where people were more responsive, he didn’t modify his message, he persistently carried on doing what God had called on him to do.
There Are No Write Off’s with God by James Petticrew
September 17, 2015
He says that “in Christ,” through what Christ has done for us in his life, death and resurrection, through his empowering Spirit and inspiring example and our relationship with Christ, God is recreating, restoring us to what he originally intended us to be. The Greek word that Paul uses literally means a “masterpiece.”