What were you doing last Friday? Well, if you’re someone who made a physical New Year's resolution, statistics from Strava suggest that was the day you first broke it; the first day your running shoes stayed in the porch untouched, and the day the gym began to go quiet. What’s more, research suggests that by the 19th January, 92% of people with resolutions will have already quit them. It can be easy to feel guilty about that. We once again have “failed”. We “haven’t tried hard enough”. We...

If you’re anything like me, in this busy season of ministry, I can get so caught up in the “doing”, I scarcely take time to pause. I can end up spending all the time talking about the awe and wonder of that first Christmas, and not truly basking in it myself. So today, no especially deep thoughts, but an invitation to join me in prayer. Won't you join me as we approach with wonder and worship, and ask the Lord to be at work in us, as well as through us, in this busy season. Everlasting...

Picture the scene. We’ve just moved into our Midlands office, located on the second floor of a former town hall; it's now a church. While...