How big is yours? Mine is huge! You may be relieved to discover that I’m talking about vision. I say this without boasting. 

On the most famous street in York, The Shambles, there is a Bread Shop. The bloke who owns it opens at 9am, sells his bread and closes when he runs out, which is usually 11am. He makes enough, to earn enough then he goes home.

“Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.” (Job 2:3)

I went for a walk at the weekend in the cold countryside around where I live. As I was walking the sun was setting and the view looked stunning. It’s one of my favourite things to do, just getting outside and crunching through the icy leaves without any distractions or agendas, just letting myself take it all in.

When I was sixteen, before I committed my life to Jesus, I used to drink a lot of alcohol. On one occasion after returning from a particularly massive session, where I had consumed fifteen pints of beer, I made a very strange decision. 

I was horrified to discover that students in the UK are being given a death sentence. I thought this didn't happen anymore, so to find out that it happens every day was even more terrible.

I received an email today from a friend studying philosophy at University. She was finding it difficult to marry being a Christian and studying in depth theories and worldviews that were opposed to her own. As a philosophy graduate myself, I can identify with this struggle. At times being a Christian and an academic is deeply difficult.