Jan 21st 2014 -
Next week I’m going to Uganda to visit an AIDs charity for ten days. I’m not that nervous, perhaps not as nervous as I should be. Three years ago I co-led a trip to Cambodia where 13 of us served a local charity for ten days. We saw heartbreaking things, many of the students we took were challenged to their core...
Jan 17th 2014 -
This month I was going to write about New Year’s resolutions and share lots of my thoughts on how we could live in a way that is in step with the great commandments… then I realised that I have no ideas, thoughts or words that are anywhere near as good as Jesus’ mandate that we see in Isaiah 61 and...
Jan 15th 2014 -
Don’t tell anyone, but I know a division of undercover missionaries. You won’t notice them. They just look like regular people. They are incognito. Hidden. Disguised as students. Living amongst the masses in the university realm. Hardly anyone knows that they are agents of a different Kingdom. Their primary occupation is to care about and gradually guide the people around them to...
Jan 14th 2014 -
My friends and I have decided not to let 2014 happen to us. Rather than living in reaction to the ups and downs life throws at us, we are heading into the new year on the front foot. We are putting stakes in the ground now, for what we want to see happen in 2014, regardless of what might be...
Jan 7th 2014 -
As the Christmas break draws to a close here are ten questions for students before heading back into the fray! The first term was a foundations term. First years find their feet, middle years settle into a routine, final years look towards exams and the next step. Wherever you’re at, your last term would have been a turning point. Its the same...
Dec 12th 2013 -
Keep your trees, stockings, fat bearded men and turkeys... parties are the way forward my friends, and also one of the most appropriate responses to Christmas we can have. I went to a Great Gatsby themed Christmas party thrown by the students in a local church in Bath last week, to end the term in style for their community and their...
Dec 3rd 2013 -
When I tell people I have a list of challenging personal questions about my faith and lifestyle that a friend asks me regularly, the responses vary from ‘that’s cult-y’ to ‘what a good idea’. Honestly, I’ve swung back and forth in my opinion of discipleship questions over the years. Last Monday morning, though, as I read Matthew 23, it reminded me...
