It’s been yonks since I last wrote on my previous blog, over at Blogger. But for a number of reasons I’ve made the call to pick it up again, albeit over here at WordPress. Chiefly this decision to step off the bench is because, as I originally intended it, I believe a blog provides the discipline of writing that will help me to develop as a communicator and thinker. Having not done this for a while, I think I’ve missed this, so here goes with v2.0.

I don’t expect the content to change much; the same mix of thoughts, reflections, and reviews of things I’m experiencing, reading & listening to, or just generally engaging with in life & Christian ministry. When I first began That Happy Certainty (based on a quotation from Luther on the joy of the assurance of knowing Christ through His work), I was an undergraduate up at Durham. I then picked up the blog during my spell in London as a ministry associate at a church, and I’m now in Cheltenham working full-time for another church, whilst seconded on a part-time basis to a Christian organisation involved in secular youthwork, so to some extent the context and detail of the things I’m writing about will be different.

We are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing about the God whose world it is and who runs it… Disregard the study of God and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfold, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.

J. I. Packer, Knowing God.