This week I turned twenty-six years old: that makes it ten years since I left school; eight years since I left Basingstoke; seven years since I started university. The past few years have brought s o m u c h growth: I’m becoming more myself every day, and although it’s a painful process at...
The Contentedness Diaries.
Every now and then, I get a verse stuck in my head: it’ll come up time and time again in a certain season – in sermons that I listen to, in conversations that I have with friends, in the videos that I have on as background noise. Those words will become my heartbeat; the...
This is For Somebody.
This blog post was written at about 11:30 at night, sat cross-legged on my bedroom floor with a giant cup of tea and an old Matt Redman album on in the background. It’s going to be one of those blog posts that is straight out of my journal – but I figured that if...
Plan C is Just as Good (I Promise).
“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...
The People that you are Allowed to Delete from Facebook.
Facebook is something that has, annoyingly, played quite a big role in my life. I’ve had an account since I was a teenager, and I’ve managed to collect a pretty big, pretty random selection of friends over the years: from the people that I went to secondary school with, to friends from the various...
The 15 Year Time Machine (Things I Wish I Could Tell My Student Self) – Sarah Green
We’ve got a treat for you today friends. We’re hearing from Sarah: she’s a photographer, a musician, Mum to two beautiful girls, my church big sister, and she’s well and truly on team I Am. A couple of weeks ago, Sarah found some journals that she wrote just as she was becoming an adult...
Joshua: Strong and Very Courageous (Part Two)
It’s almost ironic that my plans for the beginning of this series on Joshua have not worked out quite the way that I thought they would; and that instead, God has come in and changed things up a little bit. The book of Joshua breaks down quite nicely into four “acts”, which we had...
Power in Experience: Why You Don’t Have to go to Uni (but you can if you want to)
Choosing the path that you want to take in life can be so difficult, and if you are between the ages of 16 and 25 and thinking about your options for the next part of your life, that decision can feel like it is loaded with so much pressure. We are often sold the...
Daniel Wickstrom: Intimacy with God.
How do we do life with Jesus? For the three years the disciples had with Jesus, this perfect physical representation of God in human likeness. They had Him to touch, walk with, laugh with, eat with and learn from. He was apart of their everyday life. For me this image represents a lot of...