In 1999 I stood by the Millennium wheel in London at 23:59 with my girlfriend and the masses around us; I stood, ready for the world to end. The Millennium bug was just seconds away and I was poised to watch it all come tumbling down. What happened was at 12:01am, like many others, I […]
Happy New Year. Let me retell a story, perhaps one of my favourites found in Mark 2. Huge crowds had gathered around Jesus, so many people that there just wasn’t any space left as Jesus was teaching truth and healing the sick. The house he was in must have been heaving, with people filling every […]
A year ago today, if I had asked you what you thought 2020 would be like you would have probably listed loads of things that didn’t include a global pandemic. We ended up with lockdown, a hit on global markets, widespread closures of the high street as we know it and church buildings across the […]
Especially for our Chinese brothers, here is Nathan’s New Year blog that should have published on the 1st January. 新年快乐 A quick search on the internet reveals that only about 8% of people who make New Year’s resolutions actually manage to keep them and hit their goals. Now, we know that after about 6 weeks […]
Happy New Year and welcome to 2019 from all of the team. 2019 is a special time for us here at CVM and during the year you will be hearing lots from us, why? Well, it’s an important birthday! CVM has existed for 30 years and we are pleased to say that all year we […]
Have you ever noticed the flurry of books and self-help guides to transform you into ‘the man’ that will rise to the top in this world? There are loads. At the start of the year this stuff is all the more visible. How to earn more, how to excel in business, how to be a […]
New Year. Another one. 2018. Already. Any hopes? Dreams? Challenges? Resolutions? Plans? Of course we have no idea what lies ahead, we can make plans, we can prepare for stuff but no-one actually knows for sure whether any of it will actually happen .. I am not sure how far ahead you all make plans, […]
New Year. Another one. 2017. Already. Any hopes? Dreams? Challenges? Resolutions? Plans? Of course we have no idea what lies ahead, we can make plans we can prepare for stuff but no-one actually knows for sure whether any of it will actually happen .. I am not sure how far ahead you all make plans, […]
New Year, new beginnings! It is not uncommon that some time between 35 and 55 there comes a point when the search for success gives way to the search for significance. Whether climbing the corporate ladder has proved exhausting, fruitless, pointless or successful and rewarding; or the rung you were standing on has been cut […]
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