“If you don’t do what God has told you to do, then He’ll find someone else to do it – you’ll have missed what He has for you”. It’s one of the first things that I remember being told as a new Christian. It was the week of one of the many summer camps...
Should we Burn Dirty Fuel?
This post is a kind of response to a video that caught my attention on Youtube – Hank Green is a well-known figure in the YouTube community, and in this video he was sharing his thoughts on motivation, and where we get our...
Lean In.
One of my favourite parts of the Christmas period this year, was a morning that I spent lazing on a friends’ sofa, with a blanket and a cup of tea and my Bible, while the rest of the house still slept. It was that odd time between Christmas and New Year, when we were...
Five Minutes With: the Director of a Bible College (Robin Barden from Ridley Hall, Cambridge)
We’ve spent the last few weeks talking lots about the Ridley Lay Ministry course at Ridley Hall in Cambridge: we were invited to partner with Ridley to share our thoughts about the course, and to chat about my experience of studying there. While these are sponsored posts, I jumped at the opportunity: my experience...
Stop Paddling – It’s Time to Jump Up.
I will admit that I know next to nothing about surfing, and most of my knowledge comes from bad Australian soaps that I watched as a child – but I’m pretty sure that the process goes something like this: you paddle until your arms hurt, and you’re in deep enough water that you will...