Nuakh

The blog and resources of T. M. Suffield. Exploring the Bible; thinking about the world; discerning

07/08/2025

What does being a eucharismatic look like?

Churches should embrace the life of God in the Spirit in all its fullness. That means both charismatic spiritual life and the sacramental life of the gathered church. ‘Eucharismatic’ is a term coin…

04/08/2025

"Once a day dawned dark, the clouds hanging limp like wisps of smoke that clog the lungs after a fire has burned beyond its life..."

Once a day dawned dark, the clouds hanging limp like wisps of smoke that clog the lungs after a fire has burned beyond its life. Tear-stained faces watched a man displayed, his torn body nailed to …

31/07/2025

A philosophy of ministry in 3 phrases.

I currently have three quotes on the wall in my study at the church building. I suspect that this will change with time, but each phrase is a reminder to me and I hope will shape my ministry over t…

28/07/2025

Isaiah is a book bracketed by trees. We too are trees, but which kind?

The Bible exists in a symbolic world where particular images are common: trees, tables, bread and wine, mountains, the sea and its denizens, the creation week, and many more. These have specific me…

24/07/2025

Why do we worship Jesus on a Sunday?

Or, to put the question more accurately, why did Sunday become the Lord’s Day rather than Christians continuing to keep the Sabbath? There is some debate in the Christian tradition about whether we…

21/07/2025

Christian worship has three dynamic directions.

Worship has three, or maybe five, dynamic directions. There is a gift and receipt dynamic to it. It looks a little bit like this: Worship goes up, it goes out, or sideways, and it goes in. What I m…

17/07/2025

The work of good governance is kingdom work. Why? Because God governs the world through agents.

I recently spoke at Commission’s Leadership and Governance conference, for elders and trustees. They’d asked me to give them a bit of a biblical overview—you can listen to it here—and I started by …

14/07/2025

Jesus eats a lot of fish. Why might that be? And why is it even a reasonable question to ask?

I suspect to many readers of the Bible this is a silly question. Honestly, who cares? The idea that I constantly want to convey is that we should ask the questions we find curious about the scriptu…

10/07/2025

How do we make people more generous with their time and their money?

How do we make people more generous with their time and their money? It is a question many Pastors grapple with. Volunteering in churches has been declining for decades as culture has shifted and l…

07/07/2025

When you do some sort of response time, what difference does it make where you do it?

Places matter. They accrue meaning as we do meaningful things in them, but also they are better or worse for different things. I’d like to consider ‘response times,’ by which I mean the part of you…

03/07/2025

God exists. You exist. Those statements must use the word 'exist' differently.

Have you ever thought about the fact that you don’t exist? This is the sort of thing that used to occupy my brain when I was studying philosophy at 17, suddenly worrying that I might be a figment o…

30/06/2025

What are the dragons in the Bible?

I’ve become enough of a trope of myself that friends quip about how much I talk about dragons. It’s part, apparently, of the trifecta of things I get excited about in the Bible: trees, tables, and …

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