February’s Lesson: Do Not Confuse Your Role With Your Identity

February's Lesson: Do Not Confuse Your Role With Your Identity.   This post is the first in a new series based on the main lessons I’ve learnt in 2020. Keeping up the habit I started in 2018, I write down one lesson that I’ve learnt each day. Then, each month I look back over them …

Margins (Exodus 23)

Margins (Exodus 23). We all need margins. You can't constantly live right on the edge, spending every penny and cramming every minute. Like the blank space around a page, we need a buffer-zone in our lives to keep balance and prevent us from falling off the edge. This idea of 'breathing room' was the focus …

What is Stewardship?

What is Stewardship? What do you think of when you hear the word stewardship? Money? Giving? Work? Air travel? If you’re a Tolkien geek like me you might picture Denethor on his chair in Minas Tirith, ruling over Gondor until the king should come again. A quick Google search shows that the top results relate …

Looking back on 2015

Looking back on 2015. What a year 2015 has been! In terms of big life events it’s right up there with 2005 when I travelled the world and went to university & 2009 when I got married and started studying at Cambridge. Yet in terms of the effect it’s had on daily living it’s been …

Work Before the Fall (Genesis 2)

Some people hate their jobs. A very privileged few love them. I suppose I’m somewhere in-between: someone who enjoys his job a lot of the time, but who heartily dislikes the disappointment, stress and frustration that it throws up from time to time. I reckon quite a few people are in that category, yet an awful lot more are …