Category: Podcast

This week’s episode picks up David McClay’s story and David talks about his ministry at Willowfield Parish Church in East Belfast. He shares some of his thinking about the Church in 21st century Northern Ireland (though there is plenty of potential application further afield). In days of challenge and opportunity, David’s conviction is that the Church needs to preach biblically, evangelise intentionally, and to be humble – we need to bend the knee to Jesus.

My sense is that a lot of people out there in society are very open to have conversations about Jesus – David McClay.

Archdeacon David McClay is Rector of Willowfield Parish Church in East Belfast. Along with his wife, Hilary, he leads the work of New Wine Ireland.

In this week’s episode of the podcast, David talks about his early years of coming to faith, beginning vocational ministry in the Church of Ireland, and some of the formative influences in his life . He also talks about the painful experience of losing his first wife when he was still a young minister, and how God worked in his life as a result of that experience.

(Part two of the interview will be next week).

This week’s episode continues the conversation with Derek Tidball; Derek talks about some of the personal lessons he has learned along the way as a leader, we discuss the difference between having high standards and being a perfectionist, and between being a hard worker and a workaholic!

If you’d like to know more about Derek’s book on Joshua, here is my summary of it and you can pick up a copy for yourself on Amazon and other outlets.

 

 

Episode 4 of the podcast features the first of the leader interviews where the series will invite a range of leaders to talk about their leadership journeys. In this episode, Alan Wilson, host of the podcast, finds himself on the other side of the microphone, with Gemma Brown asking the questions.

During the course of the interview, he discusses issues such as mentoring, leadership styles and crucibles.

Several books are mentioned:

• Resilient Ministry (Burns, Chapman and Guthrie)
• Lead like Joshua (Tidball)
• Courageous Leadership (Hybels)
• Isolation (Trebesch)

It’s a longer that normal podcast, so get yourself a warm drink and a mince pie and settle yourself by the fire. Or – if you are an outdoors type, put on your running/walking shoes/skis and head out for an hour!

There’s no podcast scheduled for next Tuesday, but we plan to be back on January 2 with a programme about the leadership journey of Moses.

Here is the link to this week’s episode (and don’t forget you can subscribe on iTunes). Happy listening and have a great Christmas!

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