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Identity: the ultimate excavation project

Identity: the ultimate excavation project

Emily Lucas
Emily Lucas

'Innovators, inventors, trailblazers' - these are names which bear gravitas, instil hope, and foster expectation.

They are words encouraging the expectation of a hard work ethic; names promising to satisfy that longing to contribute, to make a difference, to uncover and add something new to the world. These are the occupations of those who have risen, made progress, attempted and achieved the miraculous. These are the descriptions of those often perceived as the greatest and best.

Is it fair to share our suffering with others?

Is it fair to share our suffering with others?

Emily Lucas
Emily Lucas

How often do we hear these words spoken by those in pain, suffering and anguish?

'I’m sorry, it’s unfair to burden you with this…'

Christian, is it time to discover holy happiness?

Christian, is it time to discover holy happiness?

Emily Lucas
Emily Lucas

'Where can you always find happiness?' When caffeine fails to awaken my senses, my daughter’s questions tend to do the job.

My mind began scanning its dusty archives of Platonic philosophy, and mused on the potential flaw in the question: Can one use such an absolute adverb, ‘always’ in association with an experience that is, at best, surely subjective? Can happiness always be found? Can it ever be found?

Should you decide with your head or your heart?

Should you decide with your head or your heart?

Emily Lucas
Emily Lucas

Cereal or toast? Walk to work or drive? Home-educate or mainstream school? And yes Conservative, Labour, or Lib Dem? From the moment we wake, our days are filled with endless choices. Some we make with barely a passing thought, while others can leave us wrestling with self-doubt and fear over failure and regret.

Life is a composition of these individual, every-day, every-moment decisions. Choice is powerful. It can give control, a sense of autonomy and it can handover responsibility, burden and consequence. We seek to be people who both give and make wise, right choices. So how do we do so?

First for Reformation women

Emily Lucas
Emily Lucas

The Reformation Fellowship has hosted its first Theological Conference for Women, with over 150 joining on Zoom from around the world, including the Philippines and America. ‘The Fear of the Lord’ conference opened with a seminar by Union’s President and Professor of Theology, Mike Reeves.

Many women are used to speaking of a desire to walk in fear of the Lord, of using the phraseology and seeking to live this life of wisdom. However, to speak of fear in association with God can also breed wrongful association, particularly as we live in a culture, as Reeves describes, that is ‘allergic to fear’. Reeves gave a rich, refreshing recapturing of the true sense of what it means to have and live in fear of the Lord. Drawing on his recently published Rejoice and Tremble, Reeves passionately and eloquently refreshed the hearts of the saints attending with the truth that the fear of God, true saintly fear of God, is the Bible’s great balm for today’s fears and anxieties.

‘Unstoppable’ at this year’s Bible By The Beach

‘Unstoppable’ at this year’s Bible By The Beach

Emily Lucas
Emily Lucas

What is every Christian’s prayer?

Surely it is for the message of Christ to spread to every corner of the world and transform lives.