As I was chatting to a local church leader and a very good friend of mine about coming to preach in his church in a few weeks we started to joke about how he would introduce me and more specifically what title he would give me. They’re a few he could choose: Stephen McGuire – […]
Sometimes in life we need to face up to the reality of what is happening in our current situations and admit to some hard truths. Once we admit these hard truths to ourselves we can start to share and if appropriate seek help and support from our brothers in Christ. Let me give you an […]
So it’s an average Tuesday evening, just had an epic day at the CVM hub and I’ve decided to turn on my PC and watch YouTube for a while. Being a bit of a gamer, I start looking at pro-plays or top tens relating to different games or theories about them – average teenage gamer […]
Often I hear people say that us guys have trouble with the ‘I’ word, we don’t like to talk about or express intimacy. I have been thinking about this and I don’t agree. I want intimacy and I long for it in how I serve and follow Jesus, relate to my family and children and […]
Sometimes you read a verse or two from the Bible and it gets you, as if God was saying it for the very first time and that it was meant specifically for you. This happened to me recently when I read the following words from 2 Corinthians: “We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and […]
One of the things that I love about any testimony, no matter how amazing or how much of a visible transformation there is, are the guys who are often in the background, never giving up. They knew that what the person really needed was Jesus and they stuck at it, often for years without seeing […]
We have all heard the apparently encouraging phrases that we are supposed to live by when life kicks us hard, you know the ones I mean. “If you get knocked down seven times, get up eight times.” “What defines us is how well we rise again after falling.” “Turn a setback into a comeback!” And […]
If you grew up in the eighties as I did, you might recall certain toys and items of clothing that bring back a great sense of nostalgia. Like my Naff Naff Co shell suit jacket, portable CD player that had to be kept laser level to play a CD, and Reebok pumps. Well anyway, I […]
What is it about BBQs that men seem to love? We often see in adverts and perhaps in our own circles that blokes love a good BBQ. Get the meat sizzling, standing around with the utility belt on with brand new tongs, spatulas and clearing apparatus that, if we are honest, gets one use then […]
I have this memory of a time when I was doing a 6 week trip to Brazil as a 20yr old, away from all I knew and experiencing life in a whole new way. I was nervous to go, it was with a team lead by a Pastor who had planted a church and had […]
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