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Recently I had the honour of conducting my first wedding ceremony. One of the young men who used to be …
Recently I had the honour of conducting my first wedding ceremony. One of the young men who used to be …
Walking anywhere with a young child is always a distraction game, trying to delay the inevitable request for a carry. …
Our little boy has been with us a few nights now. It’s strange and unknown territory and there is so …
I write this on my phone in a cheap hotel room after meeting our son for the first time. In …
Once in youth group I asked the young people what they thought God wanted for their lives. There was a …
Two weeks ago I wrote about contagious generosity. This was followed by a post on infectious passion last week. To …
I have always been a big basketball fan. Living in the UK it is not always easy to keep up …
“BANG, SMASH” You look around and your heart sinks as you see the jar that was previously standing proudly on …
Yesterday I got back from YWS13 (The Youthwork Summit). It was my first time at YWS and I was swayed …
We have all had them. Those moments we relive again and again. Things from our past that either cheer us …
My 8 year old niece has a hamster called Cheese. Cheese has stayed at our house a few times now …
Thank you that I am a human man, because I understand men. Thank you that I know hate, it makes …
When it comes to musical taste we all think we are experts. My upbringing in music was mixed. Dad had …
There is a question we all fear, and don’t really know how to answer. No doubt it is an important …
I really struggle with impossible goals. I am not talking about aiming high, but genuinely  impossible targets. At secondary school …
The disciples are out on a boat. For the fishermen among them this is a place of safety. It’s what …
My favourite restaurant is called The Kings House. My wife and I would visit weekly if finances permitted. If we …
I hardly ever sign off my emails ‘God Bless you’ but a lot of people do. I always felt it …
It’s been a busy couple of months, on top of work, our ongoing adoption process, Christmas, New Year and the …
This morning I finished my Bible in a year book. Just like the regular Bible it ends in Revelation. What …
I am hideous. I am detestable, disgusting. I lie. I cheat. In my thoughts I am a murderer and adulterer. …
As it became clearer that outside of a miracle I was not going to father my own children there was …
I was walking home the other day and coming towards me were two school girls. I decided to do the …
In his sermon and book ‘The Freedom of Self-Forgetfullness’ Timothy Keller talks about getting to the place where the ego …
As a small child I used to have a recurring dream in which I could fly. Eventually I asked my …
Prophecy. That old chestnut. Some find the very idea of it controversial. Others hear from God left, right and centre. …
You probably know that feeling. You are on a spiritual buzz, you have had a good prayer time, bible study …
This is a guest post from Imogen. Imogen is at the youth group at Scarborough Christian Fellowship and this is …
It appears when you prayer to improve your character, you don’t instantly get your wish, but rather plenty of opportunities to practice. So the last two years have involved me have to man up and speak to people face to face more than ever before. But they also involved something else – more of me coming face to face with my own flaws than ever before too – usually by others pointing them out.
“Seems you created your own illusion, fuelled by an image of me” The above are lyrics to a song by …
Why do I believe in God? Apart from my personal response to a challenge to believe when I was twelve …