Dave Hop

Last week at Scargill House Phil, the director and head honcho there, was speaking about Jesus’s script – the guidance for his life. It comes from Luke 4 and Isaiah …

This week at Scargill House in Yorkshire I showed the following video: YouTube video If you play this, Google may set cookies and process data according to their privacy policy. …

‘A person is no fool who gives what they can’t keep to get what they cannot lose.’ Jim Elliot I finally got the hang of Deal or No Deal. After years of …

It seems to me a sad and frustrating fact these days that lots of comedians have become the new atheist preachers. What’s the secret of good comedy? …..timing. Er no actually. …

I’m currently struggling to rediscover the answer to The Who’s question at the moment. I’m in the process of watching a documentary about John Peel on Youtube, and have recently …

Not wishing in any way whatsoever to put any kind of downer on the new royal birth – indeed our house is currently full of the wonder and chaos of …

Dumb Ways to Die is a song which seems kind of extreme, but follow it through to the end and you discover it is actually communicating something helpful about life. …

Just the other night I had to stay up late in order to go and collect my daughter when she returned from a school trip to London. As I was …

Recently I have been reading the introduction to Jack Kerouac’s book On The Road which supposedly defined the ‘Beat Generation’. Kerouac tried for years to find his voice, and made many …

How d’you make Lady Gaga cry? Poke her face. A man goes to the doctor and says, ‘I feel like Tom Jones.’ Doctor: ‘It’s not unusual.’ How does Bob Marley like …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaBVLhcHcc0 On Saturday I went to see the new version of The Great Gatsby – and had a thumping good time. I thought it was a real rollercoaster of a movie, …

Just watched a movie from 2010 – The Company Men – about three guys who lose their jobs at a large company when the recession bites and the firm is forced …

Every month I attend a Film & Faith group not far from where we live. So far we have watched everything from Machine Gun Preacher to Tales from the Madhouse (monologues from …

Two heavenly bureaucrats walk on and meet for a meeting. 2 has a handful of papers. 1. So let’s get down to business. 2. Well there’s just one item on …

One of them will never see Jesus again. One of them will forever hang about on the edge of the crowd. One of them will become a close friend. One …

I was just listening to an interview with Mary Berry on the radio, she of that extremely low fat programme, The Great British Bake Off. In the interview Clare Balding asked …

When Jesus passed through the town of Jericho (in Luke 19) and came out the other side he encountered a little guy up a tree. He called out to him …

Imagine if next time you bought a copy of The Big Issue the seller said, ‘Thanks for giving to God.’ You might do a double take. But suppose she or he then …

One day a Galilean peasant, on the rise in the popularity stakes, sat down with his mates and quietly kicked off a revolution. He started to talk about prayer, which …

Just reading Ken Bailey’s book last night, Jesus Through Mid-Eastern Eyes, I got a whole new take on the invitation Peter gets to follow Jesus. For a long time I just …