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Continue reading →: When you’re not invited to the party.
Recently, I found myself sitting on the edge of a clique I wasn’t part of. The large group of friends was huddled together, laughing, sharing funny in-jokes, and probably (hopefully) unaware that someone was sitting on the edge, feeling like they weren’t invited to the party. I always used…
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Continue reading →: One Hell of a storm.
It had been a really long day. Dusty, tired, achey, Jesus had walked miles, preached all day and everywhere he went, he was mobbed by people wanting more, more, more, help, healing, hope.…absolutely anything he could give them. I suspect on the Myers Briggs scale, Jesus would have been an…
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Continue reading →: A good guide for spotting bad people.
May those who love us, love us. And those who don’t love us, may God turn their hearts. And if He cannot turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles, so that we may know them by their limping. I first heard this quote in one of my favourite movies,…
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Continue reading →: A dirty old crossIt was a lovely, sunny Sunday afternoon and my dad and I were taking an elderly neighbour’s dog for a walk. We were wandering along one of our favourite haunts – Pickerings Pasture – a long path, bordered on one side by the Mersey river, when we decided to…
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Continue reading →: How to deal with a nightmare.
My friend Wendy Tomin wrote a great blog about Fear recently; the kind of you-know-it’s-irrational-but-that-doesn’t-stop-it sort of fear. The kind of fear that might just have a little bit of truth in it, so therefore if it could happen, it probably will. Or so your brain says. So last night at 4.10am…
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Continue reading →: Make yourself amazing…and other lies on TV.I don’t often watch TV adverts…they mostly annoy me. If you’re anything like me, you’ll use the same tactic; record a programme and start watching 10 minutes later, so you can whizz through the 20+ minutes of sales pitches. Tonight though, I was making dinner and before my hands could…
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Continue reading →: I’m glad I woke up today.I’m in Kenya this week, part of a crew making a documentary for Compassion. This is my sixth or seventh time to an African country and arriving is always a bit of a sensory overload; hot air, shimmery green grass, red clay roads, belching motorbikes, a blaze of market stalls, swanky…
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Continue reading →: Why are we so surprised when Christians mess up?
A website called Ashley Madison was hacked. In case you missed the story, Ashley Madison is a dating and ‘casual encounters’ website for people who are married and want to have an affair. The names and email addresses of many of its members were leaked on the dark web and…
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Continue reading →: Lessons learned from a horrible day.
Last week, I woke up to a beautiful sunny day. The light was shining through the curtains and all seemed right with the world. I did my usual routine; strong coffee/comfy chair/Bible and the reading in my devotional was Psalm 93, kicking off with some verses about God’s mighty voice…
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Continue reading →: Tales from the pub…I was in London for a conference recently. Perhaps it was the news of the Royal baby or the sunniness of Spring, but London seemed to be in a really good mood. There was an air of expectation, lots of good cheer between strangers and as we meandered through Green Park,…
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