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The responses just kept on coming. Message after message of people around the city and the UK who put their dairies down to do something for the free Banquet we threw on Friday night for the people of York. (You can read the story and watch the video here.) “I can be there straight after my lecture, I’ll text to gather...

Is discipleship really always a personal, inward-looking thing? I’ve been reading a brilliant book about giving (yes I’m cool!) which outlines two different types of financial exchange: The transfer of money to another individual or organisation in order that they give you something back - this is trading.   Giving someone money so that they can, in turn, give something to a third...

Vineyard Churches UK & Ireland and Fusion are pleased to announce a partnership, designed to assist each other in better reaching, connecting and serving University students in the UK & Ireland. Student Linkup is a practical and strategic service for all churches to benefit from, contribute to and be profiled through. Student Linkup encourages the preparation, resourcing and sending of new...

It was dark at the back of the room. Row upon row of heads were in front of me, faces turned towards the light, the sound, the colour. No one noticed me slip into a seat at the end of a row on the balcony, and sink down, pulling my hoodie up over my chin.  Breathe.  I had that sick-excited feeling, as...

While much of the world (within and outside of church walls and for a variety of reasons) weeps over women bishops and with so many saying they are ashamed of their church, I want to tell you a story that will hopefully challenge you to pride in the church rather than embarrassment. It has been believed, via a blog that hit...

If the stuff that is in the Bible isn't true, if it doesn't work today and if Jesus didn't really mean what he said - I'm not interested in any of it. Thanks, but you can keep your rituals and your moral teaching. However, I believe what's in the Bible is true, it does work today and Jesus really meant what...

Imagane you were stopped from pursuing your image of external success, what would happen? I've previously drawn so much comfort, identity and strength from my achievements and future goals. Sometimes those things have shattered, either through my own iniquity or more unnervingly with no obvious rhyme or reason. When the façade has cracked, I've suddenly become less sure of what I was once so certain. Aged...