52 – 26 … and 26 to go

Are we prepared to believe that extreme poverty can end in our lifetime?

Are we prepared to believe that in 2035 we are going to be throwing the biggest party the world has ever seen?

Are we prepared to believe that 26 can become zero?

If so what are WE going to do about?

Missing Generation

Thoughts from Home Group:

We aren’t cute faced babies or silver haired ladies,

We can’t be won over with Sunday school crafts or flower arranging,

Our world is advancing faster than you can imagine.

If we want it we can have it with out having to wait.

The internet is in our pockets

The world is on our doorstep

The future’s in our hands

Or so they keep telling us!

A letter from Mary

Thirteen years old and pregnant.. sound like a Jeremy Kyle episode? In fact it’s the story of a mother, who brought the most precious child into this world. A child who became a man, a child who was already a saviour, a Lord who left an indellible mark in the hearts of creation…

Here’s Mary’s Story

The Natwivity!

As advent arrives and Christmas approaches the navitiy is sweeping twitter….

www.natwivity.com

is the twitter nativity…doing what it says on the tin, the nativity story over 25 days in 140 character burst, with thoughts from everyone from Mary to the Shepherds, Herod to the Wisemen it’s a great way to remember what happened in the build up to Christmas.

Life through my Viewfinder

Ever wondered what it would be like to be inside somebody elses head just for a few hours, to see what they see, hear what they hear, feel what they feel?

Everyones different, it’s one of the things that makes Creation so fantastic! If we were all the same things would get pretty dull pretty quickly, there’d be no new advances in science, technology or the arts. Ok so everyone thinking seeing hearing and feeling the same may lead to there being no arguments, no anger, no wars but that’s not how God created us!

You can say what you like…but we’ve already won!

This past fortnight has been a bit of a rollercoaster to be honest, and as usual I didn’t deal with the lows particuarly well…in fact in most cases I didn’t deal with them at all.

The big issue lately is that my heads been so full of worries about university work, talk preperations, friends who are ill, people who need me, that even though I myself have been physically fine and as mentally ok as I ever am, I’ve felt like I’ve been drowning.

I love the fact that people talk to me about their worries and problems but it does limit the number of people I feel I can offload to and over the past weeks my already short list became even shorter.Maybe that’s why I feel more comfortable talking about this stuff on here rather than to my friends…or maybe it’s just because I have a sneaking suspicion that noone out there in cyberland actually reads what I write!

Radical Faith in a Familiar Place

As Peter watches a figure walks towards him across the waters of Lake Galilee, as the man draws nearer Peter begins to wonder what the heck is going on. I mean he’d grown up on the shores of Lake Galilee he knows that the only reason anyone would get out of a boat in the middle of the lake during a storm was to commit suicide or to try and rescue a drowning friend, and surely if that was the case they’d be sinking, fighting the waves, crying for help. But this guy, this guy’s just walking calmly across the surface, not even an inch of rising damp in his robe! In all his experinces people don’t walk on water…they just don’t!

Update

This weekend has been one of milestones, my 21st birthday also brought about day 50 in my ’365 Awesome Days’ cahllenge and today we reached day 21 of the ‘Bible in One Year’, so I thought now would be a prime time to give you guys an update on how its all going.

In the works…

Hey!

My next couple of blog posts are still in the works, as I’m hoping to adapt a couple of talks I’m writing and so in the mean time here are a few of video’s which are forming the basis of them.

The Bible in a Year

365 days, 6000 people, 1 challenge…to read the Bible in a year! Yet another year long challenge, another one which might not seem that difficult, another one which is harder than it seems. There are three things which I find really tough about this challenge…