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September 2022

September 08, 2022

Queen Elizabeth’s Rainbows – Did Heaven itself commemorate her death?

Queen Elizabeth will be remembered as the UK's longest serving and probably greatest ever monarch...

September 08, 2022

Dream small – take little steps to help others

What really matters is not the big stuff, but the little things. As we heard...

September 07, 2022

Dream small and achieve big in life, your career, your business, or ministry

People are often encouraged to "dream big dreams", but whilst there is a place for...

August 2022

August 14, 2022

God doesn’t use anybody, so don’t let the Church do so

The phrase "use me God" or "he or she is being used by God" has...

August 07, 2022

Grace and the hope that does not disappoint us

Re Today I listened to Terry Virgo preaching at Emmanuel Church in Brighton on grace...

July 2022

July 09, 2022

Safe Haven – when God leads you to a new peaceful place. Colchester here I come.

After a turbulent five years in many areas of my life, God has been suddenly...

June 2022

June 12, 2022

Compassion fatigue, Saviour complex & Benevolent detachment

How to share one another's burdens without carrying them Some call it compassion fatigue. ...

May 2022

May 31, 2022

Connect with Adrian on Facebook

I’m trying to reboot my blogging a bit as mental energy allows. Some personal matters...

May 25, 2022

Dawkins vs Collins – amicable and engaging meeting of two great minds

Whatever your faith background I strongly recommend you put aside some time to listen to...

May 19, 2022

The final compassionate word on Will Smith vs Chris Rock

I have resisted the urge to jump into the furore over what happened between Will...

May 14, 2022

Delays, detours, disappointments, despair, and divine guidance. Today’s article is brought to you by the letter D!

Recent events in my own life have shown me once again that God's ways are...

May 01, 2022

When you feel you can’t go on, and life is too hard to deal with.

For decades Joni Eareckson Tada has been sharing the hope of Jesus from her wheelchair....

April 2022

April 28, 2022

Five years of living with blood cancer uncertainty: No longer desolate. The battle between hope and reality

Another year has passed. Today is the anniversary, not of my actual diagnosis with blood...

April 14, 2022

The Rejection of an Underclass – Time for Christians to act

There is an often forgotten marginalised group of people of whom I am a member....

March 2022

March 09, 2022

Offering practical help to the Ukrainians. We need to DO something.

I received a disturbing email this morning. A well known Christian ministry, which I shall...

March 06, 2022

Who are the meek who will inherit the Earth? Psalm 37

I was recently reading Psalm 37 and saw something I had not seen before. Jesus...

March 01, 2022

Why we need to be careful about invoking God’s name to justify war

When our own country says it has sent a special force to bring freedom to...

February 2022

February 23, 2022

Why should Christians obey Jesus?

The idea of obeying someone, anyone, doesn't sit kindly with us Westerners these days. Most...

February 16, 2022

I’m back. The Wisdom of knowing when to speak and when to shut up

Well this has been the longest blogging break I’ve taken since 2003 when I started...

August 2021

August 05, 2021

Strength in Weakness

Anyone who has a chronic illness and Christian friends is likely to have heard the...

May 2021

May 20, 2021

Four year on from a cancer diagnosis: battling for hope, dealing with the reality of emotions, and looking better than I feel!

There is no point me retelling the story of what happened in the nineteen days...

May 03, 2021

How you can save someone’s life today. Individuals count to Jesus. Nathaniel Nabena needs a miracle

When we think of the needs of the whole world we can be paralysed....

April 2021

April 20, 2021

GUILTY- Even US police can no longer crush someone’s neck and get away with it. Black lives do matter.

I know that my view is going to be unpopular with some of my white...

April 02, 2021

A big sinner saved by big grace. Good Friday reflection

I am a big sinner saved by even bigger grace. Declared righteous once for all...

January 2021

January 22, 2021

UK Spring Harvest cancels 2021 event – Online conference planned

Today one of the UK's largest Christian events have announced that they are the latest...

January 16, 2021

Are COVID-19 vaccines made from aborted babies? What is HEK293?

No babies were aborted in order to make COVID-19 vaccines. But a human cell line...

January 10, 2021

COVID19 infection, antibodies and vaccination – video explanation

Right now 1 in 30 Londoners are infective for COVID19 and the NHS here is...

January 03, 2021

Calming your mind in an age of Covid19

This is the challenge to all of us when so many think we are self...

December 2020

December 19, 2020

Jesus Wants Us to Pray

Jesus taught us how to pray. It is vital his instructions about prayer are also...

December 09, 2020

Pray for Workers

In this time of lockdowns and social distancing it is too easy for us as...