First of all, the organisers of this year’s festival deserve credit for a great series of fixtures, with some smart and courageous decisions on artists and staging. Second, they seem to have done a good job with ticketing, with far fewer of the good seats at events going empty (and seat alloca...

A few weeks ago, HSBC announced that it was changing the conversion rate for Asia Miles, so now you need 15 reward points to get 1 Asia Mile (rather than 12:1, so it's 25% worse).  Compared to other cards that is very mean indeed - some cards give double or triple points, whilst others have sig...

This message was preached on Sunday 8th March 2009. "Positioning Ourselves for Heaven to Kiss Earth" Open your Bibles to the Song of Solomon - that is the whole theme. Trust God to live in health. Healing is great but living in health is far better! It is wonderful to be healed but it's a lot better...

This message was preached on Sunday 1st March 2009. "How to Speed up in the Supernatural". Turn in your Bibles please to Hebrews chapter 12. The series we are on at the moment is; "Faith Conducts Heaven's Influence into the Earth". Jesus said; "Father Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, Y...

Can there be a more vital message than this? In the midst of life with confusion, trial, suffering, tribulation - I am increasingly coming to realise that the only thing that can meet that longing is God's passion for His people. So I was thrilled and greatly encouraged to read Terry Virgo's latest ...

One of the fastest selling events in this year’s Hong Kong Arts Festival was I/In, a collaboration between dancer Akram Khan and actor Juliette Binoche. Khan has performed a number of times at the HKAF and two years ago I reviewed his magnificent show Sacred Monsters. I/In is a risk that neith...

I am carrying on my wonderful exploring of the City Church International archives and suddenly realised that I haven't transcribed a sermon from 2005 yet. So here is the first! Preached on Sunday 6th March 2005. "The prophetic is really important isn't it? Someone said "Would it happen if someone di...

Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is a bleak and challenging modern opera, which although originally read as a sharp satire of Pre-Soviet Russia, soon fell out of favour after Stalin’s criticism of it’s dissonance and social chaos. This staging brings the opera into a modern, ...

This sermon was slightly shorter than Rob's traditional hour + sermon! However I think that the church was still basking in the visit of the two large angels and the anointing was clearly heavy so after the sermon - the time of ministry was particularly awesome. For that reason it is very worth hear...

I mentioned in the last post that I am using a few spare days to catch up with some archived sermons and the month of June 2007 was particularly significant for City Church International. In this sermon Rob explains exactly WHAT happened on the 10th June 2007 and the significance it carries. This wa...