059 Seven Ways God Might Be Speaking To You
In Scripture we find God speaking through peals of thunder, pillars of cloud, flaming bushes, even donkeys. He used prophets, angels, the beauty of creation, the coming of Jesus. God is surely a communicating God. But in the 21st century, how might we expect him to speak to us personally about our everyday, modern, Western
058 How to Hear God’s Voice – Three Keys
Life's full of big questions. Should I marry? If so, who? Take that job? Buy that house? Is this the career for me? Which church is the right one? And which city should I settle in? If we believe there's a God who cares and wants to guide our big decisions, we need to know
Need Some Inspiration? Here’s 6 Stories to Brighten Your Day
Children living on a rubbish dump in Paraguay turn trash into music… A mute girl learns to speak… A violent, paraplegic and emotionally scarred lady learns that she’s deeply loved… An antique-lover receives a vintage sewing machine from heaven… If you need some encouragement today, these 6 stories are a great place to start.
Focus Your Life for the New Year with These Three Questions
If you’re anything like me, you've probably been in a reflective mood as the New Year begins, contemplating all you’d like to achieve in 2016. I've spent the last few weeks pondering not just my goals for the year ahead, but re-thinking my life mission and what I'd like to achieve in my time on
The 5 Best Books I Read This Year (and 27 More)
Here is a list of the books I read in 2015, both fiction and non-fiction. I've included some highly recommended titles, many others worth your time, and a few reads I found disappointing. Have you read any of these books too? What did you think of them? And what are you reading now that others
We are More Than Our Greatest Success or Worst Failure
Frank Sinatra will forever be remembered for the song My Way, even though he hated it. The same thing happens to celebrities and politicians all the time as one song, controversy or policy failure becomes lodged in public memory. But there is more to them than that. And there is more to you than others
The Risk Worth Taking (by Christina Hubbard)
In this touching guest post, US writer Christina Hubbard shares her risky experiment of bringing estranged family members together for Christmas at her home. "What I feared was our history of back-handed hurtful comments," she writes. "As I made preparations, I questioned if opening my home and my heart to this family of strangers would
057 The Resilient Life [Keynote Talk]
It's easy to feel insignificant in a world that values power and popularity. It's easy to feel weak in a world with so much violence. In this keynote talk I share the stories of a KKK leader, a black preacher, a seventh-century farmhand, and one of my own humiliating moments (ouch!) to suggest that Jesus'
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The famous words of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount have been quoted by presidents, chanted by activists, pondered by theologians, and shouted by rock stars. But if they’re to manifest a resilient life, they must be lived. This study guide to my new book Resilient has been designed to help you go deeper into Jesus’
Redeeming Generation X
Cynical, nihilist, commitment-phobic, dispassionate. Perhaps no age-group in history has had more negative labels attached to it than Generation X: that often ignored 'middle child' generation between the Baby Boomers and Millennials. As a Gen-Xer myself, I want to shout "We're better than you think!" But as I share in this BBC Pause for Thought