Faith | Losing My Religion – Part 1

Since I put up my initial post on this series of essays I have had private messages, emails and comments sent to friends within my circle and old church friends asking where I was going with this.
Am I still a Christian? Do I consider the bible relevant? How can I have deprived my children of [...]

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Faith | Losing My Religion. Finding God

I have wanted to write for a while about my own Christian journey from where I have come to where I am going now. Mine has been an interesting one of conflicts, reassurances and even tests of faith to really challenge where I have been. I have been threatening to write a book on this [...]

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Faith | I Don’t Work Saturdays

Mainly because of my upbringing and “keeping the sabbath holy”, going to church and fellowshipping with my family, I don’t work on Saturday’s.
Although I don’t go to church anymore as a member, tending to shun the dogma and cultural layers that many religions have the habit of placing upon a free and opne relationships with [...]

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Christians. Atheists. Stuff.

I know I don’t usually talk about faith on this blog, but I thought I would go off on one here. After all it is a personal development blog and I can write what I like.
Today I facilitated a presentation skills workshop for an education business partnership in London. For those who know me, I [...]

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Thank you God!

To say that we have been through a wilderness experience is an understatement, there have been days in the past where the only words that we could utter were, “Though he slay me me yet will I trust him.” It has been a roller coaster ride and through it both David and I have had [...]

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BookClub: Prayer. Does it Make Any Difference

I am currently reading Prayer: Does it Make Any Difference by Philip Yancey.
Yancey is by far one of my favourite modern Christian writers. His books aren’t afraid to challenge those areas of faith that sometimes as Christians we keep to ourselves or don’t want to discuss in public. “Soul Survivor” my favourite so far [...]

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Enough Already

Today I received a chain email from a friend asking me to sign a petition. It was headed No more Joel Olsteen, TD Jakes, Eddie Long,Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, or Charles Stanley????
The petition “assigned to Frank Dobson” spoke about an organisation wishing to stop all Christian broadcasting on radio and TV. It [...]

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Text of the Day

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the satisfaction for our sins. – John 4:19

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Linking Education and Business

Yesterday I hosted a conference at Merill Lynch in London. Founded by Patrick Philpott an 18 year old entrepreneur, SKILL London was an excellent event to encourage young people about the skills needed for the world of work. Speakers at the event included Katie Ledger, Andy Lopata, Simon Woodruffe of Yo Sushi/ Dragon’s Den and [...]

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Take Five: Where Next God?

So here I sit, just over a quarter of the way through the year. Already it has been an extremely busy year where so much has been achieved. There have been moments of sadness and loss but also an overwhelming sense of joy and peace and of victories. The beginning of this week marked my [...]

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