About: Andy Froud

Next Saturday, 11th September I will be walking the Yorkshire Three Peaks with some friends to raise funds for the Sunflower Children’s Hospice in South Africa. Please take a moment to read about their work here http://www.sunflowerhospicetrust.org.uk/ and donate here https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/SunflowerThreePeaks. Andy…

Luke 19.11-27 ‘I am not throwing away my shot!’ is one of the refrains of “Hamilton”. It has multiple resonances in the musical: the shots that Alexander Hamilton drinks with his young revolutionary friends, the duellist’s challenge to take one shot but above all, the fact that all of us have one shot at life…

“I can’t wait till this is over with and we can get back to normal”. How many times have you heard that said or read that in the last few weeks? We yearn for a return to normality after the inconvenience, the boredom and the suffering of this current crisis. It will take some time…

even in Christ’s lonely and isolated death on the Cross Jesus reaches out with love and care to those around Him

“Seeing someone have his socks literally cut from his flesh is an image that he stayed with me for over 20 years.”

A week, as Harold Wilson famously remarked, is a long time in politics. A week can be a very long time in anyone’s life, of course. I don’t know if any of you, watching old TV programmes, feel it seems a long time ago. Look at those full streets and those people in restaurants and…

“Unlike our Instagram generation God looks beyond appearance to the character within.”

A true story of an amazing gift

Building a church for the future

I had a great lunchtime chat with Lewis from Ribble FM and Val Cooper who has come up with a novel waying of fundraising for our building project: Val thought to herself, what am I best at doing and what do I enjoy most? Working and meeting folk. So she has signed herself up for…