Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

    I’ve got a question for all of you – why are you up so early? Maybe you’re having your breakfast, maybe you’ve just taken the kids to school, maybe you’re on your way to work, maybe you’re already at work, like Mark hosting the show. Or maybe for some of you, you’ve just got back from a morning gym session. Ok, maybe that’s not so many of you, but I reckon a lot of us do go to the gym, or do some form of exercise at some point in our week, I personally like going running, but admittedly not really at 8am… Well whatever you do, you’ve probably got a goal of some sort. You might be trying to stay fit, to get in shape, or to build up to run a marathon, or to be able to lift heavier and heavier weights. It’s all some sort of training.  And did you know that the Bible says that’s a good thing to do? 1 Timothy 4v8 says “Physical training has some value”. The Bible, God’s word says that it’s good to do a bit of exercise! So if you enjoy a bit of exercise, t...

    Sometimes when people find out that I’m a Christian, they say, “I wish I had your faith”. I think they would quite like to be able to be certain about God and what he’s like, but they just don’t think you can ever be sure. And I get that. There are so many different ideas of God in the world, who’s to say that my opinion is better than anyone else’s? But nevertheless, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to be certain? Take Christianity for example. Imagine if you could go back in time and revisit all the things that Jesus did. Then we could make up our own minds as to whether it’s really true or not. We could be sure. Well until someone builds a time machine, that’s not possible. But we are able to do something that is nearly as good. Right back in the earliest days of Christianity there was a doctor called Luke. He lived in the Roman empire at the very time that Christianity was spreading, just a few years after Jesus’ death. He acted like a reporter after the e...

  Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday today, as it is for pop singer Shakira, footballer Barry Ferguson, Former Korean President Park Guen-Hye! And happy Birthday to our twin daughters who have recently had a birthday. Birthdays are so exciting when you are young. The cake, the cards, the party. Perhaps you can remember a childhood birthday, or a present that you received as a child. I can just remember getting the Playmobil boat, and another time a Technic lego car. Very exciting. When you are young, they are so exciting. 6 ¾ means that you are soon about to be 7, and it feels a lifetime between each birthday. I suppose that as you grow up having a birthday can be a bit of a mixed blessing. Yes, there’s still the sense of your special day, and hopefully you get spoiled by loved ones, but then there’s also the down side that sense that you are getting on.  One of my friends turned 47, and he said that it felt a lot closer to 50 than 45, even though it wasn’t! The Bib...