Ibiza revisited

I think I’d quite like to write a travel blog. The snag is that I don’t really travel, in fact, I’ve never left Europe. So since I’m just back from Ibiza, I should blog about it, and make the most of it.
Ibiza is synonymous with revelry, drunkenness, drugs and sex. What better place to go [...]

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Standards of Success

“Did you see anyone’s life really changed in Ibiza?”
I was asked the above question tonight, and I started fumbling around, trying to recall if anyone I met was visibly closer to trusting Jesus thanks to my time in Ibiza. I mentioned a few people in stalling: a family we helped move house, a girl who [...]

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Blaze of Glory

Before I left Ibiza, I told Ben about how I couldn’t possibly tell my church about everything that I did in Ibiza. They’d be fine with some of it, but worshipping in the clubs, dancing with drug users, giving workers condoms and Messages with “Jesus Loves Porn Stars” on the front would all be more [...]

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Dave

I have protected Dave’s real identity, for reasons you will discover.

The West End of San Antonio, Ibiza, has the highest density of clubs and bars per square mile of anywhere in Europe. I wasn’t finding this particular evening on the West End in very fruitful; I saw a couple of guys I could have approached, [...]

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Ibiza Stories

Donald Miller writes about how Christianity is more than a bunch of guidelines in a book, or a list of requirements to be safe from God’s wrath. He claims that the Bible is His-story, a book full of parables, poems, love letters and word pictures.
So if God uses a huge book to get [...]

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Summer Mission

Since this summer is, effectively, my last free summer to serve God on camps and missions, I decided to go big. Oh yes. Not just Livewire this year, oh no, although I did do Livewire again. I actually stretched to a CSSM, and I’m waiting on next weekend to roll around so I can head [...]

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