All articles by Jeff Lucas – Page 2
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Regular ColumnistsThe pressure to impress
I was eagerly looking forward to my annual school reunion. Inevitably, we’d pass the hours reminiscing about the classes we’d loved and loathed, the girls we’d fancied, the pranks we’d played. Our gaggle of teachers had included a few rather odd characters. There was the chemistry ...
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Regular ColumnistsOur church has banned cheesy Christian signs. There's a better way...
Source: Flickr / au_tiger01 Recently we decided to add a digital notice board to the outside of our church building. Some might feel this is an extravagance, and many churches would not have the resources (or desire) to spend money on signage, but a road study revealed ...
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Regular ColumnistsMum’s dementia
Looking back, it wasn’t the greatest idea. The care home had warned me that my mother was just days from dying. Agitation was robbing her of sleep and so I decided I would sit with her through the night. Mum was at the end of a ...
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Regular ColumnistsJeff Lucas: ‘A night intruder tried to break into my house’
Night intruders are usually experts in stealth. They silently tiptoe through the shadows, eager to break and enter without detection. But when an uninvited visitor recently stopped by our home at 3am, he loudly announced his arrival. I woke up with an adrenaline-fuelled start. Why on earth ...
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Regular ColumnistsThe Cwtch
It is one of my earliest childhood memories. I am probably not more than two or three and there is music playing on the radio. Suddenly my dad picks me up, gently wraps his arms around me, and begins to slowly dance with me. I can still ...
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Regular ColumnistsJeff Lucas: Breaking the silence about depression in the Church
My landing on Planet Church in 1975 was not without turbulence. Those Christian people seemed very strange. But I am so grateful for the local church that welcomed me in as a brand-new Christian. I became a believer after attending a service of baptism by full ...
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Regular ColumnistsI wasn’t well behaved at Trooping the Colour, but now I’m so grateful for the Queen’s steadfast example
Jeff Lucas shares a story from his childhood, when he attempted to interrupt the Queen’s official birthday celebrations
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Regular ColumnistsDoes Jesus want me on his team?
There were just ten seconds left in the game, a dreary nil-nil draw. Sensing that victory was still possible, the crowd tensed as my friend John carefully placed the football to take the corner. The crowd hushed and I realised that I was unmarked, at least ...
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Regular Columnists‘I can do all things through Christ’ doesn’t mean what you think it does
Jeff Lucas takes another look at Philippians 4:13
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Regular ColumnistsBulls, rear ends and seeing the world from God’s perspective
Jeff Lucas had to quietly control the urge to weep when his farmer friend asked him to help castrate a bull. Here’s what it taught him about perspective.
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OpinionWhen it comes to moral failure, Christians must avoid ungodly glee
The corridors of Westminster, and some of our churches, may seem reminiscent of a soap opera. But when Christians are tempted to gloat, we must take a look at our motives, says Jeff Lucas
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Regular ColumnistsThe ‘fool for Christ’ prophetic word that changed my life (thanks, Gerald Coates)
Once in a great while, we bump into one-of-a kind people. Their brilliance, kindness, way of thinking and turn of phrase turns our own heads and hearts. We want to be around them. Formerly a leader of the Pioneer network, and a significant voice for many decades ...
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Regular ColumnistsJeff Lucas: Lessons from my psychedelic shirt
There was something about me that was screamingly obvious, but I hadn’t noticed it myself.
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Regular ColumnistsHelp! My laptop is infested with demons
My laptop was recently infested with demons. I’m not sure what heinous sins it committed to be inhabited by such dark forces, but it was surely the technological equivalent of the Gadarene demoniac. In that biblical story, Jesus commanded the devils to transfer themselves into pigs, which ...
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Regular ColumnistsJeff Lucas on the day his house nearly burned down
Source: Kristian Kirk Mailand / Alamy Stock Photo A couple of weeks ago, two nice chaps stopped by our home and promptly set fire to it. Which was rude. They hadn’t planned to commit arson – their agenda was to cut the grass. All was going well ...
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Regular Columnists‘Have it your way’ just about works at breakfast time, but it’s a terrible way of running a church
Want to confuse Jeff Lucas? Just offer him six different options for how he’d like his eggs done
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Regular ColumnistsWhy it’s dangerous for Christians to fit in
”Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.” (Romans 12:2)
