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As part of our sermon series, Discipleship in a Secular Age, I'm writing a few blog posts between Sundays. The scholars I’m drawing on in this series, people like the philosopher Charles Taylor and Hartmut Rosa, have spent decades trying to understand the world we now live in. Their ideas are rich and genuinely helpful, but they come out of academic philosophy and sociology, and there's only so much you can unpack in a 25 minute sermon. These posts are a chance to slow down a

An introduction to our new sermon series You wake up. Your hand reaches for your phone. Doom scroll. You check your appointments and to-do lists. You see that you are on the roster to do morning tea at church on Sunday. You sigh and get up. You then move through the day in a kind of forward lean, always slightly behind, always reaching for the next thing. Then Sunday comes, and you sit down in church, and your head is still running. Most of us know that feeling. What we ra

Here is a conviction I've held for a long time: every Christian, at some point in their life, should properly test whether God might be calling them into vocational ministry. You should not assume you know the answer. Actually test the question. What does that look like? An internship. A traineeship. A mentored role in a church. A part-time position taken as a deliberate taster. Some structured way of getting close enough to ministry to find out whether it suits you, and whet