Back in 2008, which is surely the very dark ages of the Internet, I recorded what was one of the first cross-Atlantic internet-based video interview to be shared on a Christian blog. It was with Ed Stetzer and really should have been a podcast, but until today it has only been available in piecemeal bits of video. If you have ever wanted to really get to know Ed Stetzer why not have a listen.

I think I would like to record some more of this kind of material in the future. I hope I don't get Ed into any trouble for sharing any views of his that may have changed in the intervening years! 

The most important Christian album ever. That’s what some are calling Kanye West’s Jesus is King which has erupted onto the internet this weekend.

Those of us who are oldies and out of touch with modern culture might not realise just how potentially impactful such a giga-celebrity conversion and album release might turn out to be.  Our youth are, however, much more aware of just how much of an impact Kayne West might make as a born again Christian and much of this episode was inspired by a conversation I had with some of my own children.

You can watch the video or read the article this podcast was based on over on my blog just search "Patheos Adrian"

If you survive brain cancer a lot of the stuff that's overwhelming people in this day and age they don't they don't affect me as much as I thought they would so like if a Twitter mob goes after me. I just I just tend to think I'm going to be all right, because once you. Once you've been in that space where you think you've got two years to live and you know that your kids are going to grow up without you and that your wife's going to probably gonana  marry another man, and that you're going to stand in front of you know, God Almighty and then like once you once you walk through that Valley it put some things in perspective that that everybody knows But but doesn't really know and I think you can appreciate that now in a unique way that you know it theologically, you know it, you know the text the teacher even in some way maybe. Maybe get get some of it into your guts. But the man until you're on the precipice, you know until you're the one leaning over that Chasm and and saying by faith that man it had better be about grace alone, or I'm in a lot of trouble.

Watch and listen to the full interview.

Almost exactly ten years ago Matt Chandler collapsed and was diagnosed with a Brain Tumor. How did that experiecne change him and the church that he leads? We discuss this and a new book he has published on the subject, Joy in Sorrow. Matt is the pastor of The Village Church

We discuss what helps and doesn’t help people who are suffering. We talk about spiritual challenges suffering brings, how to walk with God through the middle of it.

Video is also available on YouTube as well as a full transcript. 

So far has the Lord helped me. An update on my health situation which is looking really quite good as I am now in remission. This was shared six months after the end of chemotherapy for blood cancer.  It was originally a Facebook Live episode and you can also read the transcript.

One thing Rachel did for me was help to break the stereotype that only people who thought similarly to me take the Bible seriously. I never met her but I did enjoy very much recording a discussion with her and Owen Strachan for the Unbelievable? radio show which demonstrated her warmth and openness of heart.

The sudden death of popular Christian blogger Rachel Held Evans at age 37 has shocked the English speaking Church online.

Rachel was a mother, wife, author, and our sister in Christ.

Earth has lost a strong voice.

Heaven has gained a daughter of the King.

Rachel’s death at such a young age reminds us all that we cannot assume we will live on Earth for ever. Are we ready to meet our Lord as she now has?

We grieve for her young family, and we feel the gap she leaves online.  We grieve, but we do so with hope. As a believer in the physical resurrection of Jesus I am confident that she is with Jesus right now, awaiting his return.

Provocatively and accurately she said

I never met her but I did enjoy very much recording a discussion with her and Owen Strachan for the Unbelievable? radio show which demonstrated her warmth and openness of heart. Rachel’s writing  had previously inspired me to write on the spectrum of views on gender roles in the church. Reading blogs by writers like Rachel taught me that there was a broader range of views on these issues than I had previously thought .  Here is the recording of that radio show in honour of her memory:

This is the audio from a Facebook Live post I recorded in Jan 2019. In it I shared about what had been going on so far for me in 2019.

My year so far has been dominated by my health situation and I talk about that, but also by the 21 days of prayer, and the Manifest Presence Conference at the church I am part of.

We have had a great time at church (even tho I have had to miss some fo the meetings). I also share below some of the sermons that have blessed us greatly so far this year at Jubilee as we have been in a time of special blessing:

Based on a Facebook Live post sent out before Christmas midway through chemotherapy.

Earlier in this week before I recorded this I posted about how Jesus loved Lazarus and his sisters SO he waited. I believe in a God who heals. I also believe he heals not just miraculously but by doctors and the medicines they develop.

On and off this year I have been sharing the story of my journey with blood cancer.  Now I am about to start the next phase.

So on the 11 October I will be starting chemotherapy with FCR on the Flair study.  Oliver Cromwell used to say to his troops before they went into battle “Trust in God but keep your gunpowder dry”. So this is me keeping my gunpowder dry.  I thought you might like to see this Facebook Live video of me speaking about it: