Archive for December, 2008

Tea for two? How conversations will shape history

30Dec08

Image source: a_purple_turtle
Gibraltar sports a town square officially called “John Mackintosh Square”. My grandfather’s generation called this square “el martillo” (the hammer) in reference to the auctioneer’s gavel, as this was the place where public auctions were held. El martillo was the place where my grandpa’s generation would meet, and solve the world’s problems over [...]

Presidential history…..

29Dec08

(HT: Scott Hodge)

Twitter - the Charles Darwin of Blogging

28Dec08

I totally Dig Twitter!!! I am a Twittering fool. There, I said it. Twitter is a micro-blogging platform that allows you to shoot out little and regular updates of what you are doing, thinking, etc. People get to “follow” you and your twitter updates (Tweets), and you “follow” others as well. [...]

Merry Christmas everybody

24Dec08

Celebrating that LOVE found a way to break open the Heavens, and come and live humbly among us! Celebrating that a little baby born in a dirty stable represented the highest hopes for the human race. Celebrating that LOVE encarnate will always triumph. God’s good and perfect gifts are laid out ready for [...]

Your Kingdom Come Conference, Madrid, Spain With Kris Vallotton

18Dec08

We have just returned from a small but in my view extremely strategic gathering of people in Madrid Spain. Your Kingdom Come conference was organized by my peeps in Madrid, Centro Cristiano Cuatro Vientos, and the speaker was none other than Pastor Kris Vallotton, one of my heroes from Bethel Church. There were few in [...]

Dalton and Vicky Jantzen visit Living Waters

11Dec08

This past Wednesday 10th December saw one of our favourite peeps in the world, Dalton and Vicky Jantzen visit us in Gibraltar. This guy baptized me 12 years ago in a swimming pool in the Spanish city of Seville, and although we have maintained contact through the marvel of the internet, we had not had [...]

Climbing mountains to take on cities

08Dec08

In 1975 Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade and Loren Cunningham, founder of Youth With a Mission, had lunch together. God simultaneously gave each of them a message to give to the other: “The culture is shaped by seven mind-molders or mountains in society. If we can influence each of these areas for Christ, we [...]

Leadership Roundtable at Windsor Castle

01Dec08

I have recently returned from a historic gathering of pastors, ministry leaders and national influencers that was held at the historic St. George’s College in Windsor Castle. A few months ago Jaydan was scouring the Internet and he came across this “roundtable”, and with the special speakers being Bill Johnson, Che Ahn, and John [...]