Adrian’s Story

Serving Jesus at Work- My Story

June 7, 2011

As we begin the second part in this series based on an edited transcript of a sermon I preached at Jubilee, we must remind ourselves that each of us has a vocation. We have a role, we have a job to do. It doesn’t really matter whether you are a top businessman or whether you [...]

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Adrian’s Story Part Five – Learning to Value Being, Not Doing

June 17, 2009

It’s funny how God often uses odd little coincidences to hammer home something he wants to say to you. I realized, thanks to the posts from my recent sermon, that I hadn’t shared the next installment of my story with you. So I dug out the old version of this post, set about beginning to [...]

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Adrian’s Story Part Five – Learning to Value Being, Not Doing

June 17, 2009

It’s funny how God often uses odd little coincidences to hammer home something he wants to say to you. I realized, thanks to the posts from my recent sermon, that I hadn’t shared the next installment of my story with you. So I dug out the old version of this post, set about beginning to [...]

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Adrian’s Story Part Three – Water Baptism

May 13, 2009

So far I have shared two parts of my story, and today I will continue where I stopped last time. As a young child, one of my favorite verses was the following: Acts 10:47—“Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” My parents found themselves [...]

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Adrian’s Story Part Two – Receiving the Holy Spirit

April 28, 2009

This is continued from part one of my story, which I shared last week. I wonder if my father thought that what had happened the night I said I wanted to become a Christian had been real. I was so young; could I really understand it? Could this short conversation which ended in me praying [...]

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Adrian’s Story Part One – Conversion

April 21, 2009

One of the things about a blog is that it is, by its very nature, a very personal thing. You meet not just a set of ideas, but a person. A few years ago I set about sharing the brief story of my life with you all. In some ways it feels like a strange [...]

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