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I love this! The Indiana Wesleyan University Chorale were travelling by plane and gave a stunning rendition of “Give Me Jesus”. It’s a great reminder to take our worship outside…

I hope you enjoyed Christmas! Obviously Christmas is not about the gifts, but I wanted to let you know about one of mine. I’ve been searching for a great pair…

Merry Christmas to everyone in my blog community! Thank you for a fantastic year of journeying together. It’s been a great year! We’ve discussed women’s roles in the Church and…

Happy Christmas Eve! Hope you are feeling festive! At this time of year we see lots of images of Father Christmas or Santa Claus. As we know, he was inspired…

I heard a quote recently – “you are your rituals”. It’s a powerful truth. People say that life is what happens while you are making plans – and it’s true….

Check out this fascinating video. Cornell University’s ‘Creative Machines Lab’ have created a ‘ChatBot’. It’s a computer program that mimics human conversation. Their aim is to create something so intelligent…

Thanks for being part of my blog community and walking the journey of life with me. I really value you all and consider you a key part of my life!…

Yes, the picture on the right is me as a little girl…no jokes about my ‘bowl’ haircut!! This post will explore the crazy reality that we are the last generation…

How do you celebrate the run up to Christmas? Do you have an Advent calendar, an Advent candle or some other way of counting down to December 25th? Sometimes on…

Yesterday was the anniversary of the arrest of Rosa Parks. She’s one of my all-time heroes. If you don’t know her incredible story, I’ll tell it in a nutshell. On…

Very soon it will be Christmas!! As we begin the liturgical season of “Advent” we think about Jesus coming to earth as a baby – the long awaited Messiah who arrived…

This is a post from an excellent network called Sophia. Sophia is headed up by Jenny Baker and is a network encouraging and equipping women in ministry. Here is a…

I know all too well that the issue of women preaching or being ordained is a fiery one, with vastly differing views across the global Church! My recent posts on…

Check this out! Many of us spend LOTS of time sitting at desk and/or in front of computers these days. The above stats are something to bear in mind. Our…

Over on my Facebook profile, a huge debate has been happening over the past 3 days! More than 250 comments were left, as the dialogue bounced back and forth between…

Hi everyone. I’ll be blogging some more ‘practical tips’ posts over the next few weeks on this site. Thanks for all your great feedback on my previous ‘practical tips’ posts,…

I do lots of positive ‘how to’ blogs in these ’10 steps’ style. But today I though I’d write you a tongue in cheek list of what not to do!…

Clearly I’m a huge believer in ‘contemporary worship music’ as it’s my job and my calling! But as I’ve sat on songwriting panels and listened to countless albums, one thing…

I love that my blogging community  - you guys – are so eager to ask big questions and explore theology together. So today I want to start a conversation here,…

I’ve been seeing an upswell in the use of the phrase ‘post-evangelical’ recently. One of the places is a new podcast that Don Miller has launched. I love Don’s writings…

Most people are pretty exhausted these days. Running hard and fast, in need of more sleep, more rest and more time to chill! We know God rested in Genesis, on…

On Saturday I spoke at the Worship Central conference at HTB in London. I was invited by Tim Hughes who asked me to speak on Social Media as he knows…

Seeming as many of us have been tweeting about this today, I thought I’d blog about it before I went to sleep. As a worship leader I’ve heard this discussion…

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears….” This well known quote is from Shakespeare’s Julius Ceasar, Act 3 Scene 2. The setting of this famous speech? The Roman forum. Built…

On the window ledge of my home office are two little figurines. They are the popular ‘racing nuns’ you can buy all over the place now. You wind them up and…

I’ve never talked about singleness on my blog because to me, it’s not a label that I wear. If you’ll forgive me a brief rant here (!) I really can’t…

Today I tweeted that I’ll be taking questions from you guys via Facebook, Twitter or email. Ask me anything you like and I’ll use the questions as inspirations for blogging,…

Today there was a conference called #FEM11 happening in London. Some great things were being tweeted about how society really needs to keep working toward the equal treatment of women….

A while ago I experimented with starting a second blog called “CyberSoul”. It looked at a very specific topic – the interaction between technology and spirituality (one of my favourite…

People regularly say to me: “Wow, you spend a lot of time online blogging and using Twitter and Facebook. Do you get enough community in the real world?”. Another recent…