Happy Christmas
Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.
Luke 2 v 11
Happy Christmas everyone!
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Trusting God
As Christians, trusting in God is something we all must do and for the most part we find it relatively easy. Going about our day to day lives, to work and back, etc. it can be very easy to trust God. We pretty much know what is coming when, and whether we can [...]
The Impact of Design
I’ve always been aware of design and the impact it has on people’s perceptions. The more I’ve grown in my design abilities and understanding the more prevalent this notion has become. This past week I have been on a work placement at a design studio in London, and whilst going about my work [...]
Back from Beach Mission
Late on Sunday night I got back from Criccieth and the Beach Mission, which is probably more appropriately entitled as a Holiday Club. I had a great time, really enjoyed it, and mostly importantly really saw God at work.
The two weeks were spent teaching the kids the book of Ephesians, specifically about God’s big [...]
Beach Mission
So I’ve just finished “sync’ing” my iMac and my iBook so my iBook now mirrors my iMac as closely as possible (really made me want .Mac!). Why am I telling you this? Well tomorrow morning I’m heading to a town called Criccieth in north Wales for a two week beach mission.
This is something [...]
Bigger than Mom and Dad
I’ve just come across this quote by Lisa Simpson in my Moleskine. I wrote it down a while ago, I don’t really remember why, or what struck me about it at the time. But when I read it this time I felt compelled to come here and post about it.
The quote:
I’m no theologian, [...]
Designing for God
Design can be a funny thing. It can be the most frustrating, painful process, but it can also be the most rewarding satisfying and challenging process. The last term has been very enjoyable in terms of my design work. It began with the frustration I had been experiencing in my work for [...]
Happy Easter
Just wanted to drop a little Happy Easter. I also want to take this opportunity for the lack of meaningful posts recently, and also for the coming term. It’s my final term at Uni so I’m pretty flat out with work and relaxing tends to be done late at night when I’m not [...]
Nothing. Ever.
It’s interesting how things often crop up in the space of a couple of weeks in the Christian world. Two weeks ago at CU we had one of the guys from my church, Luke, come to speak. He spoke on relationships, first about our one with God, then our friends and then with [...]
More than just symbols
I’ve spent the last couple of days writing, or at least trying to write, stuff for my dissertation. It’s been qutie a hard task, the subject of my dissertation is looking at the use of Christian symbols in advertising and one of the things I’ve been trying to do is look at the key [...]
Giftings
Recently I have been hearing, reading and seeing a lot of stuff about using our gifts for God. It was in a part of our talk at CU on Tuesday, I’ve read posts on blogs about it, and it’s really making me think particularly with the end of Uni approaching fast!
I’m a visual person, [...]
Why I’m stopping “borrowing” CD’s
Towards the end of last term it was my CU’s House Party. We went away for a weekend of fellowship, teaching and just a chance to spend time and get to know one another. During the weekend we studied elements of both 1 and 2 Peter, with four talks across the weekend by [...]
Happy Christmas
Just wanted to say Happy Christmas to everyone, I hope you have a joy filled day and that you remember the true reason for Christmas. It’s not about presents but about remembering and celebrating the birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ!
House Party
I’m going away for the weekend on my Christian Unions House Party. Much fun and probably not a lot of sleep to be had, but all good!
Mission Week: The Follow Up
So it’s been just over a week since Mission Week ended, the Life course has begun and things still seem to be quite encouraging. The Life Course had several people attend with about 5 non-Christians going along, which is encouraging and more than last years Life Course which we ran. Whilst this is [...]
Mission Week
Last week was Mission Week at my CU, I had originally planned to blog about it daily but I was that busy and that tired I was unable to do so. As a result I am going for a bit of a mass post about the events and will then follow it up with [...]
Prayer
It’s one of the most important aspects of being a Christian. It’s that conversation with your Maker, your Saviour. It’s one of the most intimate things. It’s the time you bare yourself to God, where you come before him, talk and listen.
On your own it is incredibly powerful and intimate. As [...]
Encouragement
Last summer when I came back from my first year at Uni I found things very hard in regards to my faith and living it. At Uni I am surrounded by friends from CU, my house mates are now all Christian, my girlfriend is a Christian and we are all together living it out. [...]
Home, with direction!?!
Having got to the end of my 2nd year at uni I now find myself at home for the summer. Its been an interesting last term and even more interesting being back home. The transition from being at uni to being at home is quite strange. Obviously its nice to see parents and friends, but [...]
Searching and Growing
It’s amazing how the seemingly smallest, but actually quite big thing happening to someone else can give your own faith such a huge boost. This term one of my housemates, who shall remain nameless, has been exploring God, his beliefs and doing an Alpha course at the church I and another of my housemates attends. [...]
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