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Are we following Jesus at all? Last week I helped run an event for twenty-somethings in Ireland and we had Pete Portal sharing with us and something he said caught my attention.  He said ‘Following Jesus will always take us to people on the margins of society, and if it doesn’t we need to ask ourselves are we following Jesus at all? Now for me...

November rolls round, fireworks spark off everywhere, bonfires gather and warm us and Christmas lights start to appear. Celebration is in the air. But what are we celebrating? What do we actually have to celebrate? As you remember, remember this 5th November, and throughout this season of wintery celebrations: what are you celebrating? We are invited by our extravagant God, and even instructed...

You walk out of the cinema after seeing the new James Bond, and Daniel Craig is standing there waiting and says, 'Come and talk to me about what you thought about the film'. Wow. I think many of our response would be to immediately say yes and talk with Daniel Craig right?! I don't think we'd respond with 'maybe later Dan, i'm a...

Ivy Fallowfield in Manchester meets next to a large hall of residence and counts a number of students amongst its members. Luke Smith caught up with Anthony Delaney, Leader of Ivy Churches; Nick Duffy, Team Leader at Ivy Fallowfield; and Olli Davis, Ivy’s Student Worker. Tell us a bit about your student work Olli: We meet students where they’re at. We run...

“On the seventh day God finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work.” I’m pretty rubbish at resting.  Sometimes it’s because I really love the work that I do. I love connecting with people and making things happen and being a part of what God is doing. Or in my less than healthy times it’s because I think that...

I’m a little bit worried we might throw the baby out with the bath water. Well, not the baby, more the fully grown parent-aged adult out with the bath water… An equally disturbing image. Weird phrase all round come to think about it. But that’s beside the point. As a 26 year old female in church leadership I am smack bang...

Josh, a student from Derby shares some thoughts with us about his starting uni adventure.   How did you find a church at uni?  I used Student Linkup to look at the churches in Derby but I already had one in mind. They put me in contact with a student worker straight away from that church.  How did the first few weeks at uni...