Most people who were alive at the time will remember the Boxing Day disaster of 2004. At the same time as we in the western world were enjoying the fuzzy warmth of the Christmas season with family and friends, the infamous South Asian tsunami ripped it’s way along the Indian Ocean and...

NEWSFLASH: ‘The UK is losing its status as a Christian country.’ We no longer live in a ‘post-modern’ world. Today is a ‘post-truth’ world where the worldview is: “there is no absolute truth.” What is truth to you is relative only to you and society has got to applaud and affirm that. As a resul...

Do you have a favourite season? In Ireland we enjoy the variety and colour of changing seasons – the crispy gold and auburn of autumn, the frosty mornings and dark nights of winter, the vibrant colour and new life of spring and the longer and (hopefully) sunny days of summer. Sometimes in Ireland we...

It can be difficult to make a “stand” for something or someone when we feel like we are doing it alone, but as a movement, a body of believers and a church we are never alone. In the story of two sticks we can identify three key elements that may have some relevance and application for us within Elim...

God’s ways and thoughts are far above ours and because of that He is always going to surprise us!  History bears this out. Who could have imagined that the Pharoah, oppressing the Children of Israel and drowning their children in the River Nile, would eventually be defeated because a baby preserved i...

Shortly after the birth of Jesus a wise prophet named Simeon declared to Mary ‘that a sword would pierce through her soul’. He was saying to her that her new baby boy would one day bring deep internal trauma to her soul. In our church we have been thinking about the last words of Jesus on the run up...

If we stop to think of the many places we are denied access to, the countless personalities we will never get to meet, it just makes it all the more astonishing that the creator of the universe, the God of all might and power invites us to personally enter into His presence and spend time with Him....

I recently seen this picture on Facebook of a tree that was so overcome with presents you could barely see the tree.  And quite honestly it really made me stop and think…do people actually think that all this is necessary?  Is this what Christmas has really come to mean?  How many presents do ki...

While on holiday this year Margaret and I decided to spend a day on the beach.  It's not something we always do, I've never really liked the abrasive mix of sand and sun cream!

On the particular beach we visited there is a strong northerly drift. People regularly enter the water to splash around but...

Let me introduce you to my favourite 5 year old. His name is Eli and he is my youngest son. He likes to tell me I’m beautiful and he likes to jump off stuff. He likes to wrestle and hum loudly. But most of all he likes to eat. He is always hungry. So when he was tiny I used to wait until he left the...