Christianity is about our response to four key words
He’d met Jesus, so his brother had to meet him too. That’s how it all began. Andrew brings Peter to meet Jesus. Peter the hot headed fisherman from Bethsaida meets Jesus. This is the gospel of John Chapter 1. This is the start. Peter is a fisherman. He would have come from a long line…
But Samuel remained in Ramah
At the end of the Epistle to the Hebrews there is a list of people that the writer says he doesn’t have time to talk about. It is an extraordinary list of individuals, and despite the writer of the Epistles reluctance, I want to write about one of them and maybe in doing so, show…
Faith in the Family
I have three children. At the time of writing, Nia is 20, Owen is 18. and Elliot is 14. They are all different. Very individual. Different motivators, different temperaments, but all great fun. I became a Christian when I was 15. When my wife and I had children we were in effect first generation followers…
More children needed in our churches…
The simple reality is left to their own devices all churches grow older, become increasingly inward Child evangelism – communicating Jesus to boys and girls who don’t go to church with their families – is the key to church growth. And how else can those children who don’t have Christian parents hear the gospel? I…
What motivates you?
What compels you? What are you passionate about? What gets you out of bed in the morning? And what keeps you going when it all goes wrong – which from time to time it will! For me it involves revisiting the story that birthed that passion in the first place. Here’s my revisit: It was my final year in…