Tag: Manchester
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Even Manchester’s Mayor Wants a Job in London
You are drawn to success. We all want comfort, success, glory, prestige. And temporal kingdoms offer that. Throughout history there have been “great cities,” climbing to the sky, offering a tower to commune with greatness: Babel, Nineveh, Babylon, Rome. And, of course, here in the UK—London. Andy Burnham once said: “[politics] has been too London-centric…
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Optimal Inefficiency
All the pressure is on to be efficient. Hit the tickets on time. Get on top of AI. Don’t fall behind. We’ve all heard that things can be either fast or good or cheap, but not two at once. Modern Manchester wants all three from you at the same time. But not only is embracing…
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God’s Not Waiting to Vent
God is not frustrated with you, waiting to vent. He doesn’t have mountains of pent up anger and frustration. If you come to him, he doesn’t need to unload on you before you can both be square. Other people in your life are like that. And—at least to some extent—you are like that. Human beings…
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I Don’t Feel Good Enough
Everything around you, and inside you, is screaming that you have to measure up. You need to meet a certain standard. You need to achieve something. They are all wrong. Those voices either crush you because you fail, or turn you into a proud, self-righteous person. Neither leads anywhere good. So, those voices aren’t just…
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Man City. God’s Goodness. Your Body.
Why would a Christian pastor start a football club? Whether it was the regular smell of blood and mud, or the festered boredom of mass unemployment, I don’t know. But in 1880 something moved the Reverend Arthur Connell, and a small group of volunteers in his church, to start St. Mark’s football club. East Manchester…
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Stop Trying Harder
All the voices around you tell you to deliver, excel, perform. The voices in your head say the same. Two widespread, fundamental misunderstandings of what church is feed these voices. The first is that church is just another platform, another facet, where you can perform and shine. Either to compensate for failure in another part…