Pilgrim's Progress and breakfast with Trueman

On Sunday night  I was preaching on the other side of London. For all the talk of urban ministry and the need to plant in city centres nobody ever talks about the traffic. Two hours to travel 8 miles!! If all of creation is moving towards living in a city someone has to sort out the congestion.  One of the advantages of being stuck in a Nissan Micra for 3 hours, apart from listening to the best of Snow Patrol, was hearing Pete and Ann Woodcock's version of Pilgrim's Progress. It's aimed at kids and has a workbook. It's ludicrously over priced by Day One but is a fantastic recording. The workbook will work very well for kids and there are PDF's of the worksheets to reproduce, so it could be used for Sunday School or Holiday Bible Club. Pete and Ann have also produced a CD and workbook on Man's Soul.  Both are worth getting and thoroughly enjoyable.

Pete Woodcock is one of the finest evangelists in the UK. As a communicator to the man on the street I don't think I've ever heard finer. There's an edginess to his preaching which is utterly compelling. He's the minister here, you can listen to some other material he's given here and he's also written a terrific evangelistic tract. 

When I say that Pilgrim's Progress and Man's Soul are expensive, I'm obviously speaking from a British perspective.  I had breakfast with money bags Trueman on Saturday. As you can imagine he paid, using the immortal words 'Do you take American Express Gold Card?' and with his wallet bulging with notes from the recent Ligonier conference. Thankfully Trueman, complete with his leather jacket and Snoop Doggy Dog hat, is at the Affinity Theological Conference at this week on Scripture which looks good, he'll be flashing his cash around I'm sure.