Holding loosely to stuff can revolutionise your life
I was reading this morning about a friend of mine who’s swapped her smart phone for a ‘Nokia brick’. She can catch up with social media and emails on her laptop but when she’s...
Monthly Archive: January 2018
Teach me how to pray
What is prayer? Prayer is the one of the ways human beings communicate with God. Prayer usually involves words, although sometimes words cannot be found. God understands the longing of our hearts too and...
So what does living life the Jesus way look like in practice?
After presenting a glimpse of how it is to live in this new revolutionary kingdom of God in what we now call the Beatitudes (we looked at these yesterday), Jesus goes on to cover...
Get ready for some radical teaching
The first time I heard my husband speak publicly (I didn’t know he was to be my husband at that stage!) was at an event organised by the Christian Union at Warwick University where...
How am I doing compared to you and you and you?
So far this month, we’ve had glimpses of the mind-blowing kingdom that Jesus is inviting us all to be a part of: that new world order where everything is just as it should be....
No pain, no gain
Nothing worth having comes easily. We all know the truth in that, don’t we? No pain, no gain and all that. We have to put the effort in to get something out. Achieving something...
What’s the thing that’s holding you back?
There’s a burning question on everyone’s lips. Jesus is talking about this wonderful kingdom of love and light and justice, where everything is just as it was always intended to be and what everyone...
Like a child
There’s an account which appears in all of the first three of the four gospels. That’s unusual in itself. It’s almost identical in all three books too. It’s all about entering the kingdom of...
We all have a past
We all have a past. We all have stuff that we’re ashamed of. Our past is littered with regrets: words we wished we’d never said, decisions we wished we’d never taken. There are some...
How do I get in to this kingdom?
The kingdom of heaven is near. Jesus When Jesus began speaking out about who he was and why he was here, this was his message. He was announcing a new kingdom, different from any...
