Z is just the beginning, because with Jesus, the last will be first. Through what God has called me to do with my life, I’ve traced the story of Gen Z for more than the past 10 years. This hasn’t been planned on my part. When I began my time as youth pastor at StContinue reading “Z is just the beginning!”
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This is a Homecoming Year!
As the hours counted down to the New Year, I had an interesting experience – a conversation with a friend that opened a window into the heart of God. It was 31 December 2023, and a friend who’s a church leader told me about a young man who’d recently started attending church, simply because heContinue reading “This is a Homecoming Year!”
Radiant
A couple of years ago I wrote here about a driving passion in my life: that the church would be radiant. Recently, I’ve been overcome by particular gratitude for the church and the incredible church people who have impacted my life. Since I’ve been a believer (and before) I’ve been part of churches. I’ve seenContinue reading “Radiant”
22
On this palindromic date* (22/02/2022) I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the two year mark since the beginning of this blog, and the beginning of these adventures with God. Very soon we will also reach two years since the beginning of our UK lockdowns. I remember seeing the news on the TVContinue reading “22”
The prayer you stopped praying
We all want to belong. As we read in Luke 1: 5-17, Zechariah and Elizabeth had spent their whole lives feeling like they didn’t fit in with the other families. Unable to have children, they faced their disappointment with a passion and focus on God. Zechariah’s name means ‘God remembers’ and here we discover howContinue reading “The prayer you stopped praying”