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To tie in with our real week of events aimed at clearly explaining the real hope of Jesus Christ to those who don't know him, I've spent the last few months interviewing people from our church family to find out their story.

As I write this, the post-mortems have only just begun. Questions are being asked and angry responses are being offered by everyone. The experts are telling us that they were warning us all along, when in reality they were involved in building up everybody’s expectations. Across the country there is a flat feeling. What am I talking about; the recession? the budget? No, England are out of the World Cup!

Have a watch of these two short videos from St Helen's Church, London about the Christian message of hope at Easter.

“I’ve got some good news for you!” If ever there was a statement to not only cheer us up, but to make us sit up and take notice, it is surely that one. In a world that is so often full of bad news, to hear a sentence like that is particularly encouraging.

Just over a week ago we held our first Ask God night looking at the question "Why do people suffer?"

Just came back from a brilliant day at the Cardiff Men's Convention. The theme was 'Men of Action', looking at how Christians can and should share the good news of Jesus with people around them, as a natural result of Jesus Christ himself living in those who trust him. We don't do witnessing, we are witnesses!

Did you see the story earlier this month about an air traffic controller at JFK Airport who has been suspended for taking his young son to work with him and allowing the boy to clear the planes for departure and speak to other pilots as they flew in and out of one of the world’s busiest airports? Thankfully, the incident passed off without a disaster occurring. 

We live in a world which is always crying out for something new! New technology, new fashions, a new house, new things to spend money on, and new philosophies to give meaning to people’s existence. No sooner have people enjoyed one new experience than they tire of it and move on to something else.

It’s a fact of history: Jesus Christ was killed on a wooden cross. But three days after his body had been buried, he came back to life! Hundreds of people saw him, touched him, and ate food with him. And for 2000 years critics have failed to find another explanation for the millions of people around the world whose lives have been changed by the living Jesus.

I find the British media coverage of Tiger Woods' public confession of his unfaithfulness, and his apology to the world, really interesting. In 'The Guardian', Owen Gibson's straightforward account of events was relegated to page 3, whereas Zoe Williams' 'sketch' version was on the front page. It seems that many Brits just can't understand why Woods did this. Firstly, it insults our notions of being reserved and private about such matters. Secondly, we have so divorced sexual morality from the public sphere that many people are thinking: 'Why did he need to apologise?'