Quote of the week

March 7, 2011

A new feature on my blog – quote of the week.  These will mainly be inspirational quotes.  Here’s the first one from Martin Luther on faith. “Faith is a daring living confidence in God’s grace. It is so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” Martin Luther

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1 year into our church planting adventure

February 17, 2011

As readers of this blog will know we (Ursula and I) started our adventure with God in July 2009.  At the annual Newfrontiers’ leadership conference, we both sensed God calling us to move to London and get involved in church planting.  Hope Church Newham, the church we moved to help start celebrated it 1st anniversary [...]

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grahamcrosbie.com has a new home

February 4, 2011

I have finally made the switch from Blogger to WordPress.  This site is still very much under development at the moment.  So stay tuned to see how this design develops.

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Top Ten Artists over the last 3 months

November 6, 2010

A long time since I’ve posted anything on my blog. So here goes with one of my top 10 artist posts. Chris Tomlin Third Day David Crowder Band Matt Redman Queen Rich Mullins The Beatles Paul Baloche Charlie Hall U2

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Review of "Total Church: a radical reshaping around gospel and community"

March 30, 2010

Here’s a recent review of the excellent book by Tim Chester and Steve Timmis: http://hopechurch-newham.com/2010/03/total-church-a-radical-reshaping-around-gospel-and-community-review/

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Tim Chester – "Making Community Work: Humility"

March 18, 2010

I came across this thought provoking post from Tim Chester on humility. Well worth a read.

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Together@Butlins Session 4 – Dave Devenish "The Neccessity of cross-cultural mission"

January 25, 2010

Dave Devenish continued his exploration of the life of Jesus in the Sunday morning session speaking from Luke chapter 4:14-30 – looking at the time when Jesus preached in the synagogue in Nazareth. Here again are some of my notes and thoughts on Dave’s message. Dave explained that at the time of Jesus, Nazareth was [...]

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Together@Butlins Session 3 continued

January 25, 2010

Dave Devenish unpacked the parable of the great banquet from Luke 14 so well in his session on Saturday evening it is worthy of a second post to try to capture some more of what Dave said. Here are some more of my notes from Dave’s session: “meals in the Bible are important as pictures [...]

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Together@Butlins Session 3 – Dave Devenish "The Life of Jesus"

January 24, 2010

Dave Devenish started a two part message on “The Life of Jesus” yesterday evening. Last night, Dave focussed on Jesus’ parable of the great banquet from Luke 14:15-24. Dave spent most of the message explaining the cultural context to the parable – the back story in other words. Well worth downloading the message when it [...]

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Together@Butlins Session 2 David Stroud "The Message of Jesus"

January 23, 2010

Following on from Steve Tibbert’s opening session on “The Supremacy of Christ,” Dave Stroud spoke on “The Message of Jesus” from Mark chapter 1 and Acts chapter 1. The main emphasis of Dave’s session was that Jesus came to inaugurate the Kingdom of God in the here and now. Jesus’ message then and our message [...]

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