I get to do this everyday!

One of my favourite things to do as a Christian is to get time alone with God. For some reason, I don’t think a lot of people who “love Jesus”, love spending much alone time with Him. There’s probably a lot a play with this, and there are times I lose sight of the great …

A reason for Journaling

Here's a warning, you know how people talk about having a love-hate relationship with things? Like Marmite, work, exercise or [[something humorous], well that's not the case for me with Journaling (apparently a new verb to the English language!).. No, Journaling has had a love-like relationship with me for many years. I started when I …

The White Flag: Called and Equipped to do much.

One of the significant activities God has been leading me into over the last 5 months is the process of 'stepping out of ministry'. This has been an interesting time and I've learnt a lot. I wanted to share a bit of that journey and what it's all been like. Since October 2017, I have …

Heroes of the Faith

And it's Monday again, and it's a bank holiday at that, so I've had another good long weekend. Feels like I'm getting a lot of time off work at the moment - which isn't a bad thing. But I forced myself to write this on Monday evening again, trying to build a regular habit of …

Role Maps

Holidays usually seem to be a great time to refocus and evaluate what I'm doing at the moment. Am halfway through "What's Best Next", which is an interesting book which looks at how the Gospel impacts our view of productivity. He pulls together knowledge from a wide reading of "self-help" books and combines them together …

Simple conversation amongst zombies!

I am really impressed with people who are confident and able to make natural everyday conversations with strangers. Aside from it opening up great opportunities for sharing faith, and hopefully the gospel, it just seems so good human wise. Too often I look around the bus and see everyone sitting in isolated bubbles ignoring one …

The Substitute for Habit

A couple of weeks ago, it was my birthday, and I e-mailed my brother about an idea I had. I want to write a book by the end of this year. Or at least have a half-decent first draft of one. I worked out it would take about 3,000 words a week. I asked him …

Perseverance in exercise

My first, and probably last post of October...my blogging effort has been pretty pants lately. Part of it has been the busyness of my work, part of it has been finding structure, another is different priorities and the remainder is bulk laziness. So its with great hypocrisy that I write this post entitled: Perseverance. I've …