About Me

I’ve been privileged over many years to receive good teaching that has instilled joy, peace and stability in my life. These podcasts are about passing the things that have been a blessing to me on to others.

I gave my life to Jesus Christ in September 1979 on the evening of my brother’s funeral. Life changed profoundly from that moment onward. I attended meetings near Newark in Nottinghamshire called Glory meetings, run by a charismatic gentleman called Henri Staples, known country-wide for exhorting the church to a ministry of extravagant praise and worship of the Living God.

Learning of our inheritance in Jesus Christ enhances our lives and equips us for all manner of situations and experiences.

… speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head – Christ –  from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

Ephesians 4:15-16

The meetings were known as Glory Meetings, and it was predominantly a ministry to the church. Its key facets were:

• Restoring joy to God’s people. Henri often gave the analogy of a three legged stool of love joy and peace, saying that of these three, in those days the joy leg was missing.
• A prolific music culture of strident, joyful, emphatic choruses and hymns proclaiming the Glory of God and his majesty.
• Body ministry. Every congregant was expected to give a word of testimony as to what Christ was doing in their life.
• “It’s in you!” Henri would say. The revealed presence of the Glory of God was manifest within the believer. His ministry was to release that which the scriptures – through the prophets – spoke of.

Some, but not all, of those facets have, by and large, been manfested within the church, but as the scripture in Ephesians says, all of the ministries are for the purpose of equipping God’s people.