Revive Us Again

12/09/2025

Two years on from publication and so grateful for this recent review!

https://amzn.eu/d/4zlijuY

06/02/2025

Thank you to everyone who’s been helping to keep the air fryer books in their place in the Methodist bestsellers!!!

03/01/2025

As the New Year begins, some thoughts on heeding the challenge to 'choose the better part'....

As we begin a new year, the story of Martha and Mary in Luke 10:38-42 offers us a positive challenge. Jesus gently redirects Martha, who i...

28/12/2024

A new focus on this page, on the Wesley-an treasure (as explored in ‘Revive Us Again’) that we grow and thrive as we create space for God’s grace to flow in our lives, churches and world.

30/10/2024

What religion do I preach? The religion of love; the law of kindness brought to light by the gospel. What is it good for? To make all who receive it enjoy God and themselves: to make them like God; lovers of all; content in their lives; and crying out at their death, in calm assurance ​‘O grave, where is thy victory! Thanks be unto God, who giveth me the victory, through my Lord Jesus Christ. ~ John Wesley (An Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion, 19.11.54)

07/09/2024

Hard to believe it’s already a year since Revive Us Again was published. I’m very grateful for all the opportunities I have been offered to present the themes I explore in that book…. And my continuing conviction and passion that the ‘people called Methodists’ can be rejuvenated as a movement of transformation in the 21st century - by reclaiming the treasure of our early, formative days.

Copies available at: https://amzn.eu/d/5YW29QA
Free downloadable study guide at www.lesliemnewton.uk.

05/07/2024

Thanks to Premier Christian Radio for the opportunity to chat with Chick Yuill on his show this morning about my vision and hopes for The Methodist Church as explored in Revive Us Again, copies available here: Revive Us Again (PublishU)

Revive Us Again (PublishU)

04/06/2024

Nine months on from first publication, I am humbled and delighted by the conversation and interest that my book, Revive Us Again, continues to stimulate.

And grateful too for interest from beyond The Methodist Church in its themes of renewal and rejuvenation. Thank you so much Andrew Vertigan for this endorsement:
"This book cries out to me! Why? Because it’s filled with passion, grace, holiness, generosity and the call to give it all away: the keys to revival and transformation."

Revive Us Again (PublishU)

26/05/2024

In Revive Us Again (https://amzn.eu/d/dEpifkV) I encourage us, the people called Methodists, to rediscover Wesley's insight of the potential that creating and treasuring 'spaces for grace' offer for spiritual and social transformation. This lovely reflection by Jon Kuhrt echoes and amplifies this message. https://gracetruth.blog/2024/05/17/finding-space-for-grace/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0bdkRtkTe2xTh4-AEludzC171ghZlbzokFqaOXMyTULWv7BpjWLRdTe-k_aem_Ad9x-qH4jwP2it6HUK8m7QGdfLbNp9MuSVkc4wZuzObbvm2-_7rK4ptLaSQ28S2BdItfSYds4cHH6JfNpy1aSvfA

The chapel at Scargill, Yorkshire, UK After Easter, I felt I needed a week off work and cleared my diary for a week in May without a firm idea of what I would do.  I thought a retreat would be…