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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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The distracted pray-er
Prayers for the otherwise engaged…. I don’t know about you, but I used to dread sermons on personal prayer. I mean not as the listener, but as the author of the sermon. You see I can’t preach a sermon that I don’t believe in, nor can I preach a sermon until I am convicted by…
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