Tag: calling
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Reflections
I’ve just listened to Rick and Kay Warren being interviewed at the HTB leadership conference. I was hesitant to listen to it. I knew it would hurt. I knew it would poke me in the parts of myself that are still raw and still painful. I was right. It is full of the most profound reflections…
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Trap or Treasure?
Ever since I can remember, I have felt “called” into a specifically “christian” ministry. I toyed with the idea of being a singer and actress for a while, quickly dismissed the idea of teaching primary school children, rejected the idea of nurse because it involved science etc etc. All the ideas I considered were never…
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I love my degree
I love my degree. I feel enormously privileged that I get to study the word of God, every day. That I get to sit with some of the world’s best theological scholars and just have a chat! That I get to be in a place where people care, about me, about my dreams and about…
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Trusting through Change
It’s a strange time. I’m fast approaching the end of my degree. The end of three years which have formed me, challenged me and changed me in unimaginable ways. It’s daunting, because I love LST. I love the people, the atmosphere and the teaching I’ve received and, this evening I bumped into a PhD student…
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This is a story of hope
A short testimony I shared with others when we were asked to share our stories of hope: This is a story of hope… And yet it begins with an almost complete lack of hope. As 2007 dawned, I had pretty much given up on the idea that the year ahead would hold anything to hope…
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Home Church
This summer, I have been doing some work experience with the Minister of my home church, shadowing the funeral process, leading, preaching and co-leading a Holiday Club Group. It has been difficult. It has been challenging. It has been a massive learning curve and extremely rewarding. To serve at the Church at which you became…
Rachael Newham 