By Pastor Ellis WhiteSenior Pastor This year, my eldest began Middle School. I recall the transition I made at her age from St Peter’s Catholic Primary School with only 200 students to the Royal Grammar School with 10 times as many students. It was overwhelming. But thankfully, I wasn’t also dealing with a daily bombardment […]
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By Pastor Ellis WhiteSenior Pastor Did you know that lacking social connection is as dangerous as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day? According to a study published in 2017 in American Psychology, the odds of premature mortality are just as affected by a lack of friendship, as they are by smoking a pack of […]
By Pastor Ellis WhiteSenior Pastor “The fire alarm would have gone off on the Day of Pentecost, too!” was one of the many comments I heard after last Sunday. If you weren’t there, you probably heard about it, but just after I stepped up to preach, as I was beginning to read the scripture passage, […]
On March 14 of this year, I declared my independence from the United Kingdom. Well… sort of. I took the Oath of Allegiance of the United States of America and became a U.S. citizen. It included the following words: “I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and […]
I love Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Not only because Carroll and I studied the same degree at the same school, but because I think Alice’s story is a parable for the world in which we now find ourselves. Over the past 50 years, perhaps even over the past 15 years, it feels like […]
When I was aged about 7 or 8, I used to love performing magic tricks on my friends and family. I remember one birthday or Christmas receiving a magic set, with which I practiced, before setting up my own magic show in the living room to perform to my parents. Even today, when I get […]
A special update on the latest Student Ministries news from Pastor Ellis White: I heard from two high school students this week who were telling me how much they love our High School Ministry right now. I’ve heard from parents how impressed they are with the way their children are growing in both our Middle […]
Every year on 11/11 at 11:00 in the morning, my school, The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, would gather in the main quadrangle for a service to remember those who had fought in the First and Second World Wars. Hundreds of us would gather for a moment of silence, and to hear moving words of […]
Have you ever wondered what it takes to spark a spiritual awakening in a nation lost in darkness? Picture an era where indulgence and extravagance ruled the day, where people lived for the moment without a thought for eternity. Perhaps the following quote may describe what you are thinking of: “In cities… parties, fashion shows, […]
When I was about eight years old, I started to realize I couldn’t see the whiteboard at school. The letters were getting blurry, and instead of copying what the teacher wrote, I would copy from the person sitting next to me. A year later, my dad got reading glasses, and when he brought them home, […]