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  • 6 Highlights from Alpha

    6 Highlights from Alpha

    Every Tuesday for the last two and a half months or so, I have been going along to an Alpha course at my local church. We followed the Alpha Youth Series where every week we would watch a short video and pause at different points to talk through questions in…

  • Gardening 101: Going for Growth

    Gardening 101: Going for Growth

    Last year, I started chopping up a shrub in the garden that I thought had died. It sounded rattly and didn’t look that appealing. It turns out that this is what it normally looks like in the winter. Oops. It was not dead, although I was giving it the opportunity…

  • 4 Ways of Dealing with Disappointment

    4 Ways of Dealing with Disappointment

    Writing this post is a little bit of therapy because I am still dealing with disappointment. It is not past tense ‘dealt’ with disappointment. It is a very present tense ordeal of ‘dealing’. Last week saw a big blow to a writing project I had spent a lot of time…

  • 5 Things to Pray for Your Kids by Melissa B. Kruger – BOOK REVIEW

    5 Things to Pray for Your Kids by Melissa B. Kruger – BOOK REVIEW

    This is my first book review relating to faith and children which I am excited about! I know the importance of prayer in my own life and now I have the blessing to be able to pray over my own son. As a new mum, it can be overwhelming at…

  • More > Truth by Kristi Mair – BOOK REVIEW

    More > Truth by Kristi Mair – BOOK REVIEW

    After reading ‘More > Distinct’ by Calvin T. Samuel and ‘More > Direction’ by Ayo and Ruth Afolabi, I was looking forward to the next instalment of the ‘More >’ series by IVP. These short books are ideal for those who are busy but want to engage with the Bible…

  • Billy Graham and Bunsen burners

    Billy Graham and Bunsen burners

    It’s been one year ago today since Billy Graham went to be with Jesus. I remember the day well – the sense of loss, the impact that it had on the church and the world, and the countless stories of how his ministry reached millions. I wanted to write something…

  • God’s Biker by Sean Stillman – BOOK REVIEW

    God’s Biker by Sean Stillman – BOOK REVIEW

    If you want to be taken on a journey across continents, with people from all backgrounds and stories that intertwine in incredible ways, then read this. It’s a powerful book of how God is at work in the margins of society and uses ordinary and often unlikely people in extraordinary…

  • More > Distinct by Calvin Samuel – BOOK REVIEW – 6 Thoughts on Holiness

    More > Distinct by Calvin Samuel – BOOK REVIEW – 6 Thoughts on Holiness

    The More > series published by IVP are books for busy people who want to carve out more time with God. The word ‘holy’ can conjure up negative stereotypes like ‘holier than thou’ or it is something that is simply impossible to achieve. Calvin Samuel’s More > Distinct addresses this is…

  • 5 of my cancer posts for World Cancer Day 2019

    5 of my cancer posts for World Cancer Day 2019

    It’s been almost a decade since I was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma. A lot has happened in that time. The fact that I can reflect about the experience and have been in remission for this long is something I am very thankful for. Life is precious. Someone very close to…