Quite a full on day today, but excellent nonetheless.

Met Sam Parker for breakfast in London – he’s just moved from Soul Survivor Watford to be the new worship pastor at Christ Church London. What a diamond bloke. I guess we have similar roles in our separate churches, but I can see already I’ve got a lot to learn from this guy – I look forward to connecting out more in the future.

Today mainly consisted of a Newday Review team meeting all day in London with the Newday team; Joel Virgo, Stef Liston, Stu Gibbs, Stephen Dawson, Adrian Holloway, Nicholus Ferguson and Phill Grey. The team meets 4  times a year, and I’ve had the huge privilege of joining these meeting in recent months. One of the major characteristics of all these team meetings is we always spend the first hour or so in prayer and worship together.

I’ve heard people say they care about different issues, or that they’re passionate about a whole number of things, but I heard my dad say once

You know what people really care about by what they pray.

I tell ya, worshipping and praying with the Newday team for an hour was one of the privileges of my year. Hearing these men pour out their hearts for this generation, for the youth of this country, for the glory of Christ in our land; hearing their passionate yearnings for God to move in power and change a nation… I was moved, inspired, challenged and grateful. Grateful that God has blessed us with such godly, humble men who will lay down their lives to see God’s kingdom come in our lives. These guys are the real deal. Wow. Absolute heroes of the faith. They’ve seen something of Jesus and His purposes that I’m hungry to see also

Got back tonight and went out to see The Xcerts live in Brighton. Free gig which is always nice! Not bad gig. They’re a three piece with a big sound, lots of energy and an American accent.

Newday tent photo courtesy of Steve Rowland Photography.