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What does it look like to show love to our nation, day by day? The reckless love of the Gospel Showing reckless love often doesn’t appear ‘reckless’, because love is focussed on others, not the hoopla surrounding yourself. I believe that reckless love often means looking to very deliberately do the Christlike things that the […]

What’s a spiritually inspiring gathering someone could hold in their living room? Or of course, during these times, over Zoom? Five Agapé UK staff members, past and present, share their ideas… You can quite easily adapt the below ideas, for gatherings over Zoom.  I have loved hosting Christianity Explored (an informal course about what it means

By Melissa Crutchfield Over the course of our lives, each person’s identity is being formed and shaped through individual experiences, relationships, culture, media, and the world around us. We are constantly seeking to define who we are in any way that we can. David Benner, a psychologist and author of the book, The Gift of

By Sue Smith His eyes were wide like saucers. “What did you do? What WAS that?” I had to admit, I didn’t really know what had happened, as I looked at my hands, which seemed to be looking as ordinary as usual. Seconds before I had laid those hands on this guy and prayed for

By Lesley Cheesman I had often wondered why people struggle to forgive – particularly those they love. It had been for me a simple matter of shrugging off any hurt caused by another person and telling them that it’s okay. No matter.  That was until the day I was deeply wounded by someone. Someone I

By David Blower This article was first published in the Winter 2012 edition of MOVE Magazine. There is a story that goes around Agapé UK circles about someone who travelled throughout the United States interviewing the leaders of various evangelical organisations. The people he interviewed talked with enthusiasm about their ministries, their missions and their

By Chris Sneller This article first appeared in the Summer 2011 edition of MOVE Magazine. The temptations were elegant in their simplicity and appeal. They had to be. Satan levelled a precise attack at his prey. He knew the builder from Galilee would be hungry and thirsty after forty days without food and water. The

By Lesley Cheesman This article first appeared in the Summer 2011 edition of MOVE Magazine. Jesus’ last words on earth were carefully chosen. They needed to be. His action plan for changing the whole world needed to be clearly understood by his disciples. Reaching their generation and every subsequent generation depended on it.     Jesus’ disciples