This Sunday, the 3rd of December marks the start of the season of Advent. It is indeed the first Sunday of Advent. The time when we start preparing our hearts for celebrating the coming of Jesus. It is a time of joyful anticipation, however it can become a time of stress and dread for many […]
I do love blog posts with a song lyric title don’t I?..This one is taken from John Paul Young’s song ‘Love is in the air‘ as used in the film ‘Strictly Ballroom‘. I am titling this ‘love is in the air‘ because this week, two of our amazing volunteers at Llandudno Youth for Christ are […]
Last Monday night we had a great training evening with our ‘Monthly Meet‘ training event (every 3rd Monday in the month, Llandudno Youth for Christ run a totally free training evening for youth workers, teachers, parents & pastors). We looked at how to manage difficult behaviour in our youth groups. It was a highly informative […]
Way back in the 1960’s, a scientist at the stationary company 3M, Dr Spencer Silver was working on developing a super strength adhesive. However, he instead accidentally created a ‘low-tack’ reusable and pressure sensitive adhesive. This happened in 1968 and despite it being a breakthrough in glue technology, the good Dr couldn’t think of the right […]
Last Sunday night at ‘Redefine‘ we played a new game called ‘2 Rooms and a Boom‘. It’s a really fun game to play. I’ll let this video explain the basics of how to play. We played three rounds of the game; twice the blue team won and the president’s life was saved and one time […]
My wife and I are currently in the process of selling our home. We used to live in Mochdre and have moved to Llandudno Junction. Whilst thinking about this, I thought of the scripture where it says that “From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he […]
Last night at Redefine we had a fun time watching a firework display and lighting sparklers in the cold and crips air of early winter. We then went inside to warm up as we continued our series ‘Jesus is..’ This week we looked at Jesus is – human. The humanity of Jesus. “Since the children […]
“I’m lost in wonder, I’m lost in love, I’m lost in praise forevermore. Because of Jesus’ unfailing love, I am forgiven, I am restored.” So goes the chorus of Martyn Layzell’s worship song ‘Lost in Wonder‘, which is also the title of this blog post. The dictionary definition of ‘wonder‘ is either a feeling of amazement and admirations, […]
The very first words that we read that God speaks in the Bible are, ‘Let there be light‘ – ויאמר אלהים יהי אור ויהי אור׃ – Genesis 1:3. Amidst all of the darkness, emptiness and formlessness of creation God speaks light, and there was light; and it was good. Whenever we see darkness in Bible, we must remember that with God there […]
Last night at ‘Redefine‘, as explained in last week’s blog post, we started our teaching series looking at the person of Jesus: ‘Jesus is…‘ It was a fun night, with a great talk by our director Mr Tim Gough, as he looked at so many people around the world and throughout history have been influenced […]