Those who engage regularly with my socials will be well aware how I like to use football (soccer) as a metaphorical method of exploring life’s bigger issues and topics. Taking inspiration from my idol, Jesus Christ, I basically tell modern-day parables, using one of the subjects that most unites the world in passion, emotion and … Continue reading An Injury Time Winner →

You no doubt know I’m a passionate member of a local church, which is itself part of the global church, or ‘Body of Christ’. A church is not a building nor an institution, but rather a community of individual people who regularly meet together to support one another to follow the way of Jesus, while … Continue reading Salt and Light →

I realised something about myself while in prison that took me by complete surprise. I really like to know what the time is. For a few days on the wing of the jail that became my home for many months, every cell lost access to its television. To be honest this didn’t bother me much … Continue reading Time, Space and The Trinity →

You might wonder why I talk about football so much in combination with Christianity. Here’s why… I am certain that if you walked into almost any church up and down the UK on any given Sunday morning and talked to a random selection of ten of the blokes there about football and about Jesus, you’d … Continue reading What the beautiful game can teach the Church →

I’ve been privileged to visit a wide variety of different places on earth. Each of those places – without exception – has a very special place in my heart. Everywhere has beauty and goodness in it, even if some are more difficult to see. There are a few places I truly adore, though – places … Continue reading An East Anglian Sky →

I’m a gospel missionary. My battle is against any culture in the world that isn’t gospel. My battle is against culture, never against people. People only behave in poor ways because they are immersed in toxic culture. Toxic behaviours simply cannot sustainably survive in a society where the prevalent culture is gospel. And children, if … Continue reading Culture wars →