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Hey fam!

Today I said ‘I love you’ to two people who were neither my husband nor my family. Now, just to clear up any confusion, I did also tell my husband this morning that I love him!  But right now my focus is on those other two. You see, I am not given to affectation.  I … Continue reading »

Crazy, hilarious, joy-filled churches

How do I know that I know the gospel?  I know it by the joy it gives me. I read this a couple of weeks ago in Mike Mason’s extended reflection on joy, Champagne for the Soul.  We had just celebrated our sixth anniversary as a church and it had been a Sunday of great … Continue reading »

A snippet of joy

I’ve felt quite negative this week. It’s just one of those things for me.  With a background of depression in my early twenties, I have something of a predisposition towards it, I guess.  In fact, the last six months have been more of a fight than usual on that front and yet, in a way, … Continue reading »

Spiritual community – part 2

Continuing my thought from the weekend… Haley Barton also says this: It is much easier to talk about community, and even try to create community for others, than it is to actually live it at the leadership level. OK, so how many of us know that’s been true of us? I try to