Podcast Episodes

Move right, look left

Welcome to another free, public edition of The Payneful Truth. (I’m now sending these freebies out in the third week of each month.) Here’s what you …

5 years, 2 months ago

You knitted me together

We have another grandson on the way. We’re still a few months away from meeting him, but his parents have already decided what he’ll be called, and h…

5 years, 3 months ago

Singing and the affections

The implicit question I left hanging at the end of last week’s Payneful Truth has been taken up and asked by a number of people in the few days since…

5 years, 3 months ago

10,000 reasons our songs are changing

Oh, how the worm has turned. 

I remember a time—let’s call it 1985—when certain young music leaders (perhaps like me) could get a little frustrated wi…

5 years, 3 months ago

From Aisle 12 to Romans 13

I’ve been wanting to write a significant piece about politics and the Christian citizen for some time, but I very much doubt that this week’s Paynefu…

5 years, 3 months ago

Doing justice

Last week’s post on the ‘sin of opinion’ prompted a thoughtful email from Michael Payne (no relation), asking a good and obvious question. Granted th…

5 years, 3 months ago

The Sin of Opinion

Have you ever been part of a social media thread like this? 

Anyone seen the latest Star Wars?

 Nah. But I hear it stinks. 

 That’s what they’re saying.…

5 years, 4 months ago

Is it right to plan for conversions?

A few weeks ago, from out of a post-viral haze, I posted some thoughts about the mysterious nature of Christian ministry—that is, the counter-intuiti…

5 years, 4 months ago

What I did on my holiday

In the tradition of what we had to do in school when I was growing up, here’s my composition exercise on the first day back from holidays. 

(Plus some…

5 years, 4 months ago

Same same but different

As foreshadowed in last week’s edition, I want to come back to a question that has been niggling away at me over the past few months, and that a numb…

5 years, 5 months ago