Blog: Students

Student stories: Rebekah Binns and Emily Norwood The Eden Network is a group of missionaries who set up teams in the poorest 10% of areas in the UK, to become part of the community and let the Good News be known by sharing their lives with their neighbours and friends. Just like Jesus, they choose to ‘move into the neighbourhood’ (John 1:14,...

For a few years now I’ve had a secret thought, theory, suspicion perhaps, that revival won’t be what we might expect. I’m not sure it'll look like stadiums full of crowds all focused on a stage and being led from the front. I’m not sure it'll be loud voices and polished messages and christian celebrities. I’m not sure revival will come in the shape of the summer conferences we...

I don’t know about you, but I absolutely love it when people say "Thank you!" When I’m driving in my car and I let someone go before me, and they raise they’re hand to say Thank You- It puts a smile on my face. When I hold the door for someone, help someone move house, or support a student with...

If you were a parent, what would be the highlight of your week? Would it be your greatest joy to see your child eat all their greens, or to treat them to a hot chocolate and spend time with them doing their favourite things?  Would conversations be a highlight when they’re talking with long clever words or when they are excitedly recounting story after story about their day and their...

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." Matthew 7: 7-8. It's a worrying moment when you ask for something in the name of Jesus, taking his words as...

I guess when it comes to the Christian calendar, our defining moments, our stake-in-the-ground, remember-and-celebrate-this events can lose some of their impact and power because we visit them annually. We can be at risk of actually being less creative, less inspired and less passionate about sharing our story, the story of God, in our most crucial moments. Think Christmas services...

'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.' Genesis 1 v 1 The first verse in The Bible is probably one of the most well known. It has been used to argue for and against different points of view regarding creation. Sometimes we...