London Mens' Convention

I am glad I went this year, but I can't say it was a barrel of laughs! If you know anyone who went, then get your hands on the talks.
Vaughan Roberts was clear on the content of the message, but offered few surprises. If you'd asked someone what a clear-minded evangelical would put in the talk, it was there.
Al Stewart on heaven and hell was disturbingly clear, challenging to all complacency and very sobering. Stuart Townend's musical support for the heaven talk was outstanding, doctrinally and emotionally underlining and developing the talk, linking heaven to the resurrection, giving us chance to sing the doctrines Stewart had taught, and opening our lips to sing appropriate responsive praise.
The hell talk brought us up short.
Rico Tice then came out with some simple practical challenges. Get to bed so you can get up to pray for friends, and "live so that your life raises questions and speak so that you answer them" - or something of that meaning.
I was once again struck though by the importance of preaching: you could read, I guess, everything that was said. And I don't think there was a lot new for me. But someone preached it: it came through that sacramental means of the prophetically declared, authoritatively spoken proclamation. The Spirit definitely uses this means to hammer home to the heart what the head accepts - or what both know they should accept but fear to do so.