Most of us don’t need much convincing that prayer is an amazing thing. We have been given unbelievable access to God. We have full permission to pour out our worship, thanksgiving, requests, questions and confessions to the Father who cares and can change things. Yet despite this, prayer also seems to be something that a […]

For a long time, I thought that my scientific beliefs were incompatible with any kind of religion. Raised as an atheist with a passion for science, I was certain that if something could not be seen down the end of a microscope, it did not exist. I studied biology at university, where we were taught […]

The book falls to the floor as she drops to her knees, palms open and exhale ‘Yes Lord’.  This was the posture I found myself adopting, either physically or in my heart, as I read Simon Guillebaud’s book Sacrifice. If the thought of sacrifice causes your palms to sweat a bit, you are not alone. […]

Over the summer we have spent our Sundays thinking about fruitfulness, and how we can try to live more fruitful lives for God across a number of circumstances in our lives. All of us will experience suffering in different ways throughout our lives. I think there are a lot of specific ways that living through […]

This is part 2 of a 2 part series reflecting on the evangelistic implications of our latest series of focus studies. Last time I put forward that the Goal of the cross was to rescue a people for God, that the proclamation of the Gospel should create a community, and therefore if we miss that […]