This year has been a year of change for me, not in terms of circumstances or my physical well-being, but in terms of who I am at a fundamental level. Praise be to God that there is nothing that can separate us from His love and He is the one always seeking to draw us…
Let’s start from rock bottom…I am the 0-18’s Pastor; a professional! But I have never made a consistent effort to get me and Lizzy to pray and read the bible together. Appalling, hey, but that is the truth. Any previous attempts over the past 7 years have resulted in the world’s most awkward small group…
Since Christmas I have tried to fast once a week. I say tried, because my experience of fasting has been somewhat mixed. Fundamentally, I have managed to get over the line each time and not eat for the time I set myself, but if l am honest, to say I have engaged in a deeply…
I don’t know about you but my phone has started doing something different. I now get a weekly report which tells me my screen time usage and stats. Oh my! Is all I can say. I didn’t realise quite how many interruptions I was receiving throughout the day so quickly changed notification setting to help me…
There are some situations that I have been praying regularly for, without any discernible change, leaving me feeling disappointed and disheartened. This is frustrating when sometimes I “throw up” a quick prayer that gets answered. I wondered what God might be wanting to teach me and what needed to change. At the beginning of 2019…
It has been said that the way to establish a tradition is to do things twice. As the second time we have committed ourselves to 40 Days of Devotion, maybe it is now a tradition at JCC… only time will tell? The church has been engaging in a season of preparation leading up to Easter…
At the turn of this year, we spent time catching up with good friends. Not once, but twice, I was struck by the fact the husbands told me they had been praying with their wife for the new year ahead. I felt a conviction to get before God with Abi….and pray! What would God say…
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