CVM & New Wine Partnership
Between September and January CVM will be traveling to various places across the UK to host top quality Men’s Days for Churches. Each event will consist of top quality teaching, loud worship and...
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What must be at the heart of all we do?
… if I have faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing … and now these three remain, faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13) Yes faith makes a...
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We All Need An Adventure
Years of working with children, then youth, and now young (and not-so-young) adults has led me to a conclusion: We All Need An Adventure. An adventure of risk, an adventure of faith, an adventure of...
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Why Being in a Band of Brothers Saves Lives
The subject of suicide amongst men hit the press again last week following the release of a report commissioned by The Samaritans titled: Men and Suicide: Why it’s a social issue It says: “Men in their...
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Low Sperm Count Boy (Part 2) – The Sperminator
WARNING: This is a ‘raw’ entry dealing with masturbation, don’t read it if you are likely to be offended. When I was 18 I went on a Christian year out. I don’t remember much of the training but I do...
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Man Sunday
Level Four evangelism – “man-friendly church” was once a far-off, lofty place we only aspired to one day reach. In the meantime, there was a whole stack of work to be shifted in getting Levels One and...
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Low Sperm Count Boy (Part 5) – Catalogue
After the miscarriage we decided to try IVF one more final time. There were more occurrences that could have been taken as ‘signs’ from God. Including almost half the money required arriving on our...
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Extended families
Many older people have to survive all week without a single visitor, let alone a handshake or a hug from someone. Yet some cutting-edge social projects are bucking the trend by deliberately sticking...
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Is He Risen?
Someone said to me the other day, ‘Well, you have to believe in the resurrection because you’re a Christian.’ What he meant, essentially, was that because of the tribe I belong to, there are certain...
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The problem with Dave – Part 1
I’ve been thinking a great deal over the years about the way we communicate the “good news” about Jesus to men. We wonder why we see so few men becoming followers of Jesus but fail to effectively and...
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Proclaiming the Dictionary Incorrect
When I was a lot younger I was convinced that the word chimney had an ‘L’ in it. That’s right I thought the word was pronounced chimley. I’m sure as you say that out loud to yourself you, like me,...
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It is all about Jesus
I have never been that good at setting aside regular time to read the Bible and pray. It’s not that I haven’t tried – I have. I have tried when I wake up, when I go to bed, before I eat and so on....
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Has evangelism been forgotten?
I’ve noticed a trend among Christians that’s starting to make me feel grumpy. It may just be the people or organisations that I ‘follow’, but as I look through my Twitter feed I notice that the vast...
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It is not all about Jesus
It struck me the other day that we sing an awful lot about Jesus being everything, that it’s all about Jesus. And let’s face it they are both excellent sentiments but do they tell the whole story? I...
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God, Family, Friends, Church
Ever seen one of those lists, the one where you list your priorities in order. Often for the Christian they look like this: God Family Friends Church Job But if we were honest they’d probably look like...
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Taking a book to a sword fight…
I am cool. There is no doubt about it. If you doubt it you are about to be proved wrong my friend. Very wrong. You see I own an umbrella. Oh yes. Eating your words now aren’t you? But not just any...
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The Hat & Tattoo Taboo
I am a sinner. This much is obvious to me, and probably to regular perusers of this blog, but now it is also obvious to my church. You see the other day I gave a notice in church. Yes that’s right...
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Lent Well Spent
“Get a house group going this Lent.” was the exhortation from the pulpit at my church eight years ago. I did and the mixed group I started is still running and healthy. Being an expat church group the...
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Church Without Walls
The fastest growing churches are the ones without ’walls’, the New Testament church, the persecuted underground church in China, the Pentecostal church in South America and parts of Africa. They have...
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‘You’re the voice,’ Sharing the Saviour. Part 1
Using films, books, culture and sport as we tell others about Jesus. This is the first part in a series on what it means to share our faith, and therefore what ‘Jesus Saves Racing’ is about at its...
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