We thought recently on the blog about praying in difficult situations when we don’t seem to have the words. The Psalms can help us to cry out to God in lament and prayer. Clare has crafted this prayer below based on Psalm 42, to help us pray for people in turmoil. Lord, Would _______ know […]

I know the Lord’s prayer. Really well. I’ve taught it, recited it, written articles about it and even sung it. So studying it in Focus felt like treading a well-worn path. And then our Focus Group received devastating news, and suddenly the Lord’s Prayer which we had been studying became precious to me in a […]

Over the last 7 months our world has been witness to a heartbreaking situation in the Middle East, and from here in London, however separate we may feel, we have watched the immense suffering of those made in God’s image in Gaza. With onslaughts of information and political debate, it can be hard to know […]

I arrived in London in November, started going to Globe soon afterwards, but hovered at the edges for a time. I felt dry spiritually, which perpetuated the hovering, and meant the Globe Equip series on Prayer when it came was a real gift, like God was throwing the door wide open. This was the first […]

What do Athens and London have in common? Don’t worry, this isn’t the start of a bad joke. This term in our focus groups, we’ve been looking at Acts 17, in a series called Strange Ideas. Across these studies, so much was revealed to us about the dangers of ignorance and the joy of knowing […]