observations

This morning the Wycliffe office staff had a good time of prayer based around Philippians 1:1-11. As we reflected on Paul thanking God for the Philippian Christians, I asked everyone there to write down the name of some people they thanked God for, on a post-it note. We then stuck the notes on the world [...]

My dog thinks I’m wonderful. When I get home after a day in the office, she greets me as though I had just returned from a long sea voyage, rather than a short drive up the A40. She wags her tail so furiously that the whole dog vibrates: it’s a great welcome after a long [...]

I very much enjoyed this article from my friend Antony Billington of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Many religions begin by telling men and women what they should do; Christianity begins with what God has done. The shorthand word for this is ‘gospel’, referring not to a set of good instructions or a piece [...]

In the summer of 1970, I was in my last year at Commercial Road Junior School in Sunderland. Like this year, it was a World Cup summer and we were convinced that England would go on to triumph just as they did in 1966: and just like every four years since, we were wrong! In [...]

Before the World Cup started, the media was awash with people telling us how wonderful, vibrant, colourful and noisy the competition would be. We were told that South Africa would put on an amazing show unlike anything we had seen before. Well, now the competition has started and the British media (I can’t speak for [...]