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"You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows," sings David in his best-known Psalm (23:5). As Easter people, cleansed from sin by the blood shed on Good Friday, dead to sin, raised to new life in Christ, let us kneel at his feet in love and praise. As we confess him as Lord in the presence of malign spiritual powers, human enemies of the gospel and the trials of life, let’s willingly and humbly serve Jesus and those around us, to his glory.

The faithful people of God are not constrained by mission traditions suitable for previous eras and different contexts, nor do they feel directionless as Archbishops resign or don’t inspire confidence. Institutions and leaders may fail, but we can be confident that God’s word is a completely trustworthy guide for troubled times

The task of theology should be to learn and understand the language of God, so that we can communicate with him, live within the parameters of his intended structures of the universe, and engage with truth, love and hope with other people.

"No room at the inn” is the focus of many sermons at Christmas, but it’s not what Luke emphasises. Luke is challenging us with the truth: reality is material and spiritual, and the gospel is rational and supra-rational/supernatural, bringing our inner beings into the realm of God himself. We are encouraged to consciously lay aside things that prevent peace in our hearts and replace them with what the angels sing about.

Among Anglicans there is confusion and bewilderment following the publishing of the Makin report. There is sorrowful prayer arising from deep sympathy for the ongoing anguish of abuse survivors, and for the future of the church itself. We all need to look humbly and critically at our own culture, and recommit to openness, transparency and accountability ..... and look to stand in love with other faithful believers in spiritual warfare under Jesus against the real enemy.

The “whole counsel of God” needs to be re-stated again and again, not just in formula that were packaged for a previous era, but in ways that explain the difference between truth and lies in the contemporary context. We have the message and the means to rescue and reverse the realities of our "time of trouble" as the church preaches and demonstrates the light and eternal life that Christ gives.

Faithful Anglicans are differentiating from those who have diverged from biblical truth in the same church, and are re-drawing boundaries of unity, based more around biblical definitions of first and second order issues rather than on membership of the same institution.

Our Father is carrying out his plans for the future, culminating in the joining of the Church and Christ in the new heaven and earth. Meanwhile he graciously invites us to catch this vision and look forward to it, but he also wants us to pray for his intervention in the present, not just in the church but also in the world.

Jesus has to teach the disciples about servanthood. Their presumption and desire for power is contrasted with Bartimaeus’s humility and wanting to see.

A religious institution which celebrates as good and holy those sins which need to be repented of can’t be considered as part of the church based on the foundation of God’s word. But a church made up of those who humbly acknowledge sin and God’s grace, a church committed to the agenda defined by God’s word rather than the world and it’s controlling spiritual powers, is a ‘pentecostal’ church in the true sense of one marked by the Holy Spirit.

God wants us to trust him for a turnaround in our circumstances. The risen Christ begins with quiet gospel transformation of the lives of individuals and families, and then goes on to change nations!

Editorial from March newsletter: We thank God for the leaders of Gafcon who have shown clarity and courage in identifying expressions of false ‘gospels’, and also for the way they are providing a diverse, global expression of faithful Anglicanism which can unite around the saving Good News that we celebrate at Easter.

Editorial from February newsletter: “The training we received from experienced bishops combined with fellowship with other recently ordained bishops from around the world has been challenging, encouraging and enriching. I am so thankful to Gafcon for all they have done to make this happen.”

Editorial from January newsletter: We will demonstrate the compassion of Christ through the many Gafcon mercy ministries. The decades-old division between word ministry and social action is predominantly a Western phenomenon. The church in the majority world by and large just gets on with preaching the gospel, making disciples and helping those in need.

Editorial from December newsletter: Because we live in a fallen world, at times it seems like we are in a barren desert; our courage fails; we think God is far off; we lose hope. Advent is a reminder of the seeming paradox: it is true that Jesus has come, he has saved us, we approach our destination with joy.

Editorial from November 2023 newsletter: We can take comfort from the fact that while faithful Christians are in a small minority in England and in Europe and the West generally, the centre of gospel-based energy has passed to the global south. As Gafcon boldly stated in its Jerusalem Statement of 2008, it is “the doctrinal foundation of Anglicanism, which defines our core identity as Anglicans”, rather than relationship to Canterbury.

Editorial from October 2023 newsletter: The Kigali Commitment reiterates, Gafcon rejoices in and supports life and ministry in all its fullness for women. Diminishing of women and girls has always occurred in every culture and continues today, even in the church. Repentance is needed, and renewed commitment to right attitudes and actions. But the church should always be guided by the bible rather than contemporary trends, particularly some secular understandings of ‘womens’ rights’

Editorial from August 2023 newsletter: The priority for youth and children is not social action or entertainment, but the teaching of God’s Word.

Editorial from July 2023 newsletter: Gafcon was formed because of the crisis in the Anglican Communion caused by leaders openly and repeatedly turning away from the basic teaching of Scripture. The Kigali commitment priority no.2 responds "We will devote ourselves to raising up the next generation of leaders in Gafcon through Bible-based theological education that will equip them to be Christ-centred and servant-hearted."