300 Attacked With Love

300 Attacked With Love

Valentines Day is one of our favourite times of year at Ignite Church. Each year we put together an outreach that we call the Love Attack. It basically consists of a mug that is wrapped in cellophane with some gifts inside: hot chocolate, moisturiser, hand soap and a...

To Make The King Stand

It was my first World Cup. Well, maybe not the first I had been alive for, but the first that I had taken interest in. It was 2002 and the England football team had made it to the quarter-finals and were facing the mighty Brazil. My wife and I were in a local pub...
Break Here To Multiply

Break Here To Multiply

Aged eighteen I weighted about twelve stone and my waist was thirty inches around. I remember going to the local strong man gym, where Bill Pittuck used to train and probably still does. If you’ve ever been interested in the strongman competitions you’ll...
Planting Churches Like An Anabaptist

Planting Churches Like An Anabaptist

We’ve been pioneering in Lincoln for nearly five years, and we’ve had to learn a whole load of new stuff along the way. The conception of our first Church plant was based around learning how the first British Pentecostals did it, and why they were so...

Compassion when things go wrong

According to the dictionary the word ‘compassion’ describes the act of ‘witnessing suffering and desiring to alleviate it’. Compassion, when flowing from a healthy heart, is what drives us to meet the needs of those who have nothing to give us in return. It’s what...