Podcast Episodes

Strategy, schmategy

Thanks for the very thoughtful emails and responses to last week’s post about whether church is more like a family/community or more like a society/e…

5 years, 4 months ago

Is the church a family or an enterprise?

Last time, our discussion about training and pastors led us towards a related and very important question: Is the church like a family that is focuse…

5 years, 4 months ago

The kind of pastor that's hard to find

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Here’s the third (and final for the time being) of a little ‘Back to Sc…

5 years, 5 months ago

Conspicuous sins

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In this week’s Payneful Truth, a slight divergence from my normal practice, which is to avoid w…

5 years, 5 months ago

Book talk: John Woodhouse and 'Dominion: the making of the Western mind'

Something different this week—the first in what I hope will be an occasional series of ‘book talks’ on The Payneful Truth.

The idea is pretty simple:…

5 years, 5 months ago

Back to School

For those who haven’t caught up with this, I started a new role in January this year at Campus Bible Study, working as a ministry trainer about 40% o…

5 years, 6 months ago

The training culture

This is a free post for everyone on the Payneful Truth list. If you’d like to get every edition every week, see below in the ‘PS’.

This is the third i…

5 years, 6 months ago

The Bible verse that still kills me

This is one of the free posts that goes out every three weeks or so to everyone on the Payneful Truth mailing list (i.e. ‘partners’ and those on the …

5 years, 7 months ago

Is it worth fixing?

Welcome to another a partners-only edition of The Payneful Truth. Today’s ruminations concern little subjects like the nature of the gospel, evangeli…

5 years, 7 months ago

What if ministry doesn’t work?

I made a bit of a blunder in last week’s Payneful Truth. Yes, I hear you say, you wrote in very short, simplistic fashion about feminism. You should …

5 years, 8 months ago