We are all body, mind and spirit connected to a family. There have been lots of programmes on TV , the 100 years anniversary of the first word war, computer links, as well as local computer and history groups all enabling us to learn more about who we are and find lost family members. Personally […]
Pride. (Re-read, Code Ode; Prat and Pride Part 1, Prat.) (Read Luke Ch 15, v 24-32) Recite this, out loud, walking along, to the rhythm of your footsteps. Best by far in a Ray Winstone / Bob Hoskins accent. (If you are reading this on your phone, turn it on its side). So there’s cat’rers – a […]
CVM intern, Sam Lomas writes about his short term mission trip to Swaziland with Samaritans Purse You’ll never fully understand overseas mission until you’ve been and done it for yourself. Nandos. Not the first thing that comes to mind when traveling to a tiny country in Southern Africa. But there I was, sat in Nandos […]
In seeking to understand something of the background to the current problems in the Middle East, I’ve been in a dialogue with a friend about Islam and its relations to Christianity and Judiasm. I’ve also been reading a book called ‘Touching the Soul of Islam’ by Bill Musk, in an attempt to understand something of […]
Prat Read Luke Ch 15, v 11-23 (Recite this, out loud, walking along, to the rhythm of your footsteps. Best by far in a Ray Winstone / Bob Hoskins accent. If you are reading this on your phone, turn it on its side). My mate Josh down the pub, Got a story about this bloke; He’s minted. […]
Using films, books, culture and sport as we tell others about Jesus. This is the first part in a series on what it means to share our faith, and therefore what ‘Jesus Saves Racing’ is about at its core. In essence the series will focus on what we as Christians aim to be talking about […]
How much do you think you are worth? Every year I get a pension statement showing how much I have paid in and how much I should get when I retire. It also states how much will get paid out should I die while working. Also every year I get a benefit statement, which says […]
The psalms have been the song book of the people of God for many years and some of them (like psalm 83) can worry us – especially as they were used in public worship! So how do we make sense of these troubling verses. One of the most important interpretive keys for scripture is that […]
Where were you when you first experienced elation? I have vague, early-childhood memories of blissful birthdays with cakes shaped as Subbuteo pitches and parties at water parks. In my teenage years I hit new heights kayaking down French alpine rivers, dodging rocks and trees, mostly the right way up, to be rewarded with pure adulation […]
It has taken me a while to wake up after the shock of the news of loosing another brilliant star to suicide. I grew up with Nirvana playing loudly on my Sony Walkman and Kurt Cobain’s death has been a 20 year enigma to me about brilliance and popularity’s relationship with despair and suicide. It […]
