Listen to Him

Lent begins this week (Ash Wednesday, 17 February). Lent is a season in the church year when we stop and take stock. A penitential season in...

Lent: transforming our wilderness into a desert

Romans 10.8b-13 ‘The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart’ (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because if you confess with...

Lent Disciple-lines #4: Enact-ion (Keith Hitchman)

Thirty-two years ago I wrote this short piece for an evangelistic publication. Reading it through recently, I was struck by how much of what I...

Lent Disciple-lines #2: Fasting (Annette James)

“You kept right on loving me and I went on a fast, now I am too thin and your love is too vast…” Leonard Cohen Well, I love Leonard Cohen and...

Lent Disciple-lines #1: Prayer ~ The Examen (David Emmott)

Finding God in all things More than four hundred years ago St. Ignatius Loyola proposed what has been called the Daily Examen. Its a technique of...

Lent Disciple-lines #3: Scripture (Chris Topping)

One of our spiritual disciplines for Lent – we have learned a little about prayer, a little about fasting and tonight a little about the Bible. A...

good?

Billy Graham died on Wednesday, aged 99. 'In terms of sheer arithmetic, Billy Graham was the most successful evangelist the world has known, a...

Where the wild things are

1 Peter 3: 18-22, Mark 1: 9-15 – Lent 1We are at the very beginning of Lent - a time of thinking and reflection. I wonder what your aim is for...