This is church

// The music is awful, the sermons don’t teach you anything, the relationships are shallow.

Written by Nathan Jones

Sloth: Couch potato versus workaholic

// The antidote to laziness is not to work harder. It's easy to work a 70-hour-week and then get ill. Anyone...

Written by Tanya Marlow

When sin becomes too familiar

// A man appears on screen. He has just hacked another human being to death in plain sight in south-east London....

Written by Chine McDonald

Wrath: The divine Hulk-smash

// I repress my anger. I bottle it up like an evil genie; compressing it further and further until there’s some...

Written by Martin Saunders

The parenthood of God

// Discipline isn't a word we like to dwell on.

Written by Lucy Olofinjana

Pride: Sometimes we must be boastful

// We need to move away from the need to humble others when truly we must focus on humbling ourselves.

Written by Preston Yancey

Myth 3: ‘Rest is an inefficient use of time’

// Why spend your evenings moulding the sofa to your backside when you could be getting in some overtime for a...

Written by Pete Curran

Flatulence, Irreverence and the Holy Ghost

// We were discussing, at a church youth group for 11 to 12-year-olds recently, who the Holy Spirit was.

Written by Mim Skinner

The husband list

// A husband list while sometimes helpful to pull yourself back in line when about to fall for Mr-so-sexy-but-so-not-right, shouldn't become...

Written by Anonymous

Identity crisis

// Am I being nice enough? Funny enough? Am I acting in a way that is ‘sufficiently cool’?

Written by Joanna Callender

Rob Bell: Heretic, prophet or poet?

// Chine Mbubaegbu interviews the controversial theologian as he tours with his new book aimed at those discovering God outside of...

Written by Chine McDonald

Shoot Christians say

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Written by threads

When church becomes a rota

// We can get caught up with being on so many committees, groups and planning teams that we don’t experience God...

Written by Lizzie Telfer

6 side-effects of salvation

// When you become a Christian, the ratio of hoodies to other types of clothes in your wardrobe will rise dramatically....

Written by Mim Skinner

Myth 2: ‘If I’m not happy at work, I must be in the wrong job and should just quit’

// At university, I was so busy consuming curries and trying to impress girls with my guitar that I never really...

Written by Tom Marshall

Don’t forget to remember

// Ever since a girl in my class at school was on The Big Breakfast I have been a big Chris...

Written by James Silley

Way out

// Pause for a moment and ask yourself: what are you really afraid of?

Written by Alexandra Lilley

Let’s ‘cha cha slide’ for Jesus: The rise of prescriptive worship

// If the whole church that was singing ‘we bow down’ actually bowed down, it would be carnage; we’d have to...

Written by Mim Skinner

What to do with Luis Suarez?

// When Luis Suarez bit an opponent on Sunday, my first reaction was that it was a disgrace and Liverpool should...

Written by Paul Hobson

Five ways to glorify God with technology

// From the garden to the city: the redeeming and corrupting power of technology (John Dyer).

Written by Angeline Liles