A summary of the sermon Lindsay Brown preached at Michael Green’s funeral on 2nd March, 2019.

One of the things about parenting a child or young person with additional needs, is that life is never predictable.

What we go through in our infancy is recorded as by fire in our heart.

When we speak about or pray for the persecuted are we exemplifying biblical ethics and the best of the Christian tradition?

The tablet itself consists of 3 fragments that are pieced together, and 102 of the original 202 proverbs are preserved and legible.

A healthy church requires more than just a good diet from the pulpit. 

There is always hope, hope for every child. No matter how profoundly they are impacted by their additional needs or disabilities, the love of Christ can and does reach them as powerfully as anyone else.

It’s better to risk understating the extent and severity of persecution than to risk overstating the problem. What’s at stake is credible religious freedom advocacy.

Why not help them to use a Brick Bible which tells Bible stories through Lego pictures?

Cross-cultural wisdom for a polycentric missions reality.

The ministry is the work of God and we cannot “protect” His work by trying to conceal our sin. The Lord calls us to confess and be transparent.

Seen from the outside, the battle between supporters and opposers of Pope Francis is of little significance if it does not lead to the recovery of the biblical gospel.

Maybe we should think about our own motivation for praying for healing for others; is there a risk that we are praying for healing for a loved one because that might make our life a little easier?

Perhaps we are being offered a wake-up call and a hope. And perhaps we can bring a humble, rich theology of creation (one that spurs us into action) squarely into the debate.

God has given a certain dignity to work, making it something that we cannot live without. However, if we look to our work to find meaning in life, we will end up with an empty heart.

What should fill us with hope is that the present order of things won’t always remain the same: everything will be turned upside down and in the end it is not the powerful that will triumph.

I think it would be wise to schedule a break here and there. 

Michael Green started where people were, but always took people to Jesus.

Thinking biblically about public life begins with framing reality according to the Word of God.

If disabled people were a nation, they would be the third most populous in the world (after China and India). Surely they deserve for us to keep fighting with them to change perceptions, change reality, and yes, change the world.

True biblical preaching should always be potentially life-changing, and not at just the superficial level of traditional “to-do list” applications.

Did you know that a small group of Spaniards wrote a confession of faith in London after being exiled from their country?

Instead of pushing for tolerance, norm critical pedagogy tries to influence people (even small children) to distance themselves from the two-sex norm.

Evaluating the effectiveness of virtual discipleship.

Listeners are impacted when the unique message of a passage is planted in their hearts.