Jan 12th 2012 -
Would you shake Jesus and shout in his face ‘don’t you care that I’m going to die?’ On the day the disciples and Jesus hit a massive storm the disciples didn’t even ask Jesus for help. (In Mark) When storms start to flood their boat, they just wake him up from his nap and have a go at him for not...
Jan 11th 2012 -
I was standing in front of about 25 students at Surrey University, when one lad raised a cautious hand… I’d just finished a talk on how the church and the faith of Christianity figures with all the suffering in the world. I threw it open to the tables of students munching sandwiches during this lunchtime session, asking if there were any...
Jan 10th 2012 -
“It is a while since a belly-laughed like that!” A good mate of mine came round for dinner the other night. We talked about old times, when I had curtains and he had a penchant for corduroy. By the end of the evening, I was exhausted with a serious case of laughing-fatigue. And whilst it was tiring on the stomach and...
Jan 5th 2012 -
I think we’ve found the allegedly “missing generation”. For those of you who don’t know, the 18s-30s age group are known as “the missing generation” of the UK’s churches. Across this country, the student-age are very thin on the ground when you check out demographics on a Sunday or membership lists. After the days of youth groups end, exams dominate, Uni...
Jan 4th 2012 -
Day 1 It's not that often you can look back a year and realise that everything has changed since then. That will be where you school leavers will be at a year from now. Everything will change. Between now and then, dinner time, where they live, who they live with, their friends, their eating habits, their passions will be different. They will be different....
Dec 22nd 2011 -
Fusion @ Function @ Spring Harvest Tuesday 10 - Sunday 15 April 2012 It's about sharing life, honest conversation, authentic worship and living differently. It is designed for 18-30s and it is going to be a blast! The theme is Church Actually - a passion that us and God have in common In Church Actually we want to bring two vital questions to the exploration of the...
Dec 21st 2011 -
O Come O Come Emmanuel has got to be the Christmas song. It has so much of that longing, that need and that helpless yearning which is the most enticing and most lost part of Christmas. The Israelites were waiting for a saviour, they had been waiting for a long time. They were desperate for him, and were aware he was...
