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God Doesn’t Ask You to Stop Being You
One of the things I’ve noticed and felt personally over the years is that Christians can sometimes accidentally give the impression that following Jesus means becoming exactly like everyone else. Aspiring to some kind of pre-set personality as though life will be better once we attain it! And in doing so losing something of yourself! No…
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What Prophecy Does and Doesn’t Promise
Recently I’ve been thinking about prophecy. Not in the dramatic sense that often comes to mind when we hear the word, but in the quieter moments when someone speaks something over your life and years later you realise that what they said actually happened. By God’s grace, I’ve experienced that a number of times in…
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Not the Whole Story
As I walk through my local town, I often notice the buskers. You know the scenario. Someone sitting on a folding stool or the floor with a guitar case open on the pavement, singing into a microphone and hoping people might stop long enough to throw in a few coins. Some are brilliant. Some are…
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How a Man Who Lost His Horse Helped Me
Over the last three years, I have lived through more uncertainty than I ever imagined possible. Everything familiar and stable in my life has been gradually stripped away. In July 2023, my husband left me for a work colleague to pursue a different lifestyle. In July 2025, the charity where I worked closed, and overnight…
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Do you remember what you were doing when you were 5?
I have absolutely no clue. I struggle to remember what I did yesterday, let alone when I was five. But my mum remembers exactly what I was doing! One day, when I was happily attending primary school, the local Anglican vicar, Rev Hugh Pollock, came in to take a school assembly – as vicars do!…
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Are we trusting God for the wrong thing?
When I was younger and my faith was in its infancy – I used to hear people talk all the time about “trusting God.” And if I’m honest, my version of trusting God was often actually: trusting God for things to be OK………but OK in my head meant the problem got solved, the pain stopped,…
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4 minutes can change your day
Each morning and evening for just over a month last year I got in my car and played the worship song at full volume “I’m so blessed” for the 4 minute car journey to and from work (I’ve got arthritis and it’s up a steep hill). I ritually did it every day and made a point…
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It’s not the end of the story….
The day I dropped out from university, studying History and German due to mental health issues…….is not the end of the story The day when I couldn’t face going out, because I was crippled by agoraphobia…….is not the end of the story The day when my major achievement for the day was buying one pint…
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California Baptist University
This last week I had the privilege of visiting California Baptist University (CBU) and having lunch with the President, Dr Ron Ellis. Dr Ellis has had a remarkable career at CBU taking the student numbers from 800 students to 10,000 in his presidency. Speaking with Dr Ellis over lunch it was fascinating to hear how…
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Ministry and administration
Last week, I had the privilege of taking a lecture on the topic of ministry and administration at Spurgeon’s College. The audience was a room full of third year ministerial students, who are only months away from graduating and being ordained. There was, to be fair, a general look of despondence when I introduced the…
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