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Limping Across the Line
What the Darlington 10K Taught Me About Church Taking my place near High Row for Sunday’s Darlington 10K wasn’t exactly part of my meticulously planned athletic strategy. Truthfully, it was a last-minute impulse decision realising that I was available to run it, also the street we live in is completely blocked off by the road closures, making driving to church impossible. My preparation? Not much. And to make matters worse, I rolled my ankle on one of the very few training ru

Michael Coltman
Aug 43 min read


Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Here are a few facts and figures I have gleaned over the years about the human body. You’re a marvel of creation: 50,000 cells in your body will have died and been replaced by new cells in the time it takes you to read this sentence. Your fingerprints were fully formed three months after conception. Mathematicians have calculated the theoretical probability of two sets of identical fingerprints (and these dear people possibly need to get out more) as 1 in 1,000, 000, 000,

John Lambert
Nov 4, 20253 min read


Why Are Life Groups Important?
The teaching of Jesus, received through the authors of the books of the New Testament, shows us that his church is called to be a loving,...

Tony Colthup
Oct 15, 20243 min read


What Is a Disciple?
Our (then) 4-year-old grandson, Caleb once asked his dad, “Dad, what’s a disciple?” How would you have answered him? In words that a...

John Lambert
May 7, 20243 min read


Why Read the Whole Bible?
Many Christians want to read the whole Bible, but are not sure where to start. Is it even necessary to read it all? Tony Colthup explains.

Tony Colthup
Nov 5, 20213 min read
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