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• the apprentice, calling

  ‘Spirituality that is solely focused on the inner life becomes dead and lifeless.’ So said Steve Chalke, in a stunning evening  with input from Cathy Burton & others, hosted at Oasis HQ as part of The Apprentice Tour Launch. It was a spirited, stimulating and soul-searching night. All were sign-posted to an active-spirituality, a hands-on discipleship and a renewed commitment to indulgence or distraction by obtuse greek!! I felt stretched in my heart and commitment to follow Jesus best I [...]

• self, pain & lewis

  ‘All this flashy rhetoric about loving you. I never had a selfless thought since I was born. I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through; I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn. Peace, reassurance, pleasure, are the goals I seek, I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin: I talk of love – a scholar’s parrot may talk Greek – But, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin. Only that now you have taught me (but [...]

• lent 18

    So often as Christians we are locked into a ‘judgement cycle’.  Our primary default position is that we judge others. This leaning toward judging is the direct result of the outworking of original sin in our lives. Our desire to be like God by eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil has given us a predisposition to divide the world between what we judge to be good and what we judge to be  well less than good!!  An [...]

• lent 2

  One of my commitments this lent is to trace God’s ways in these forty days. So often we get stuck in the eternal-conundrum with our God-life! He loves me; He loves me not!? We don’t need to be wobbled one bit about God’s love – yet we are. He is constant, faithful and true. He is unconditional, unswerving and always eternally loving in His heart toward you and me…. He simply cannot and will not change!! So I’m going to [...]

• lent 1

  Following Jesus calls for all of us. He engages our emotions. In Luke 6.13-16 Jesus names the disciples and the list includes Judas ‘who became a traitor’. Today, name again your desire to follow Christ. Following Jesus is active; name the ways in which you sometimes betray your best desire.

• more this lent

  Lent is the 40 weekday period between Ash Wednesday and Easter Day. It invites a time of humility, repentance, and soul searching as we draw closer to the passion of Christ. But having said that, I often feel really apathetic about how vogue it is to give something up during Lent. And particularly when it’s usually something like chocolate!! I don’t knock those who give stuff up; more to the point I commend you but I want to know why. Does [...]