Being grateful doesn't come naturally? And it seems impossibly far away when we're living through a time of loss. How can we give thanks in those times? Jam talks to David Gibson, Minister of Trinity Church Aberdeen (IPC), and author of Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End. Jam also talks to Girma Bishaw, co-founder of the Gratitude Initiative.

You can have a look at Keswick's publications and further resources here.

This podcast is from Keswick ministries. You can also find a link to the other podcast, Kes Talks, here.

This podcast was presented and produced by James Cary

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Find out more: 2025 Convention: Transformed - Keswick Ministries

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How can we be grateful and be full of thankfulness when life can be so busy, frustrating, stressful, painful and difficult? That's the question we're asking in Season 4 of the podcast. New format. New Music. Grateful is the theme of this year's Keswick Convention so we talk to talks to James Robson, Ministry Director of the Keswick Convention about why that theme was chosen. Jam also talks to Girma Bishaw, co-founder of the Gratitude Initiative.

You can have a look at Keswick's publications and further resources here.

This podcast is from Keswick ministries. You can also find a link to the other podcast, Kes Talks, here.

This podcast was presented and produced by James Cary

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The Keswick Convention is free to attend, and will be running between 12th July and 1st August 2025.

Find out more: 2025 Convention: Transformed - Keswick Ministries

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Talking to James Cary this week are Adrian and Celia Reynolds. Adrian serves as associate national director for FIEC and also as a leader at Christchurch Harborough where Celia works part time as the women’s worker at church as well as in the home.

They have have been married for 30 years,  have three daughters, and three grandchildren and have written several books on marriage and sexual intimacy and are running a couple of seminars during Week 3 of this year’s convention on Faithfulness in the Home: Faithful in marriage.

You can have a look at Keswick's publications and further resources here.

This podcast is from Keswick ministries. You can also find a link to their other podcast, Kes Talks, here.

This podcast was presented and produced by James Cary

The theme tune is Tiny Things by Yvonne Lyon 

Register and book for the Keswick Convention 2021 here.

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The Keswick Convention is free to attend, and will be running between 12th July and 1st August 2025.

Find out more: 2025 Convention: Transformed - Keswick Ministries

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Sharon, a medical doctor and someone who has walked a difficult road with a variety of severe and enduring mental health struggles shares how she has leaned on the Lord through her journey. She shares her love of psalm 13, the how and why of her new book 'Wrestling with my thoughts' as well as the struggle to see herself as more than a diagnosis... and what we as church family can do to help those in similiar situations.

Sharon Hastings is absolutely passionate about helping anyone who suffers from 'severe and enduring mental illness' (SEMI): schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder. She wants the church to know all about these illnesses: how they devastate ordinary people and how they need to be treated.

'Wrestling with my thoughts'
You can read more from Sharon by picking up her new book 'Wrestling with my thoughts' from IVP here: or here (https://www.10ofthose.com/uk/products/25885/wrestling-with-my-thoughts)

...and you can come along in person to week 1 of the Keswick Convention to hear more from Sharon.

Helpful links:

Sharon's facebook page for the book is here:
https://www.facebook.com/WrestlingWithMyThoughtsSharonHastings

Web resources with downloadable leaflets and information on a range of mental illnesses:

Mind - ‘The mental health charity'
Rethink Mental Illness
‘A better life for everyone affected by mental illness.’
The Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK)
Advice from a medical perspective.
Online advice from a Christian viewpoint
Biblical Counselling UK
Mind and Soul Foundation - ‘To equip, educate and encourage.’

Think Twice - ‘To increase awareness and decrease stigma so that people are as able to be open about their mental health condition as they are about having the flu.’


In an emergency, If you or someone else is at serious risk, call 999 or attend your nearest A&E. If the situation is less urgent, see your GP or contact your local out-of-hours service. In England and Wales, phone 111. For immediate emotional support Premier Lifeline: this National Christian Helpline provides confidential emotional and spiritual support from a Christian perspective. Call 0300 111 0101 between 9 am and midnight. The Samaritans provide twenty-four-hour telephone (116 123) and email ([email protected]) helplines.

You can have a look at Keswick's publications and further resources here.
This podcast is from Keswick ministries. You can also find a link to their other podcast, Kes Talks, here.
This podcast was presented and produced by Rachel Redeemed.
The theme tune is Tiny Things by Yvonne Lyon
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Find out more: 2025 Convention: Transformed - Keswick Ministries

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James talks to David and Maura Baldwin 2:19, an SIM ministry designed to help UK churches reach out to their local multi-cultural communities through English lessons. Dave also teaches at Oak Hill Bible school in North London.

You can have a look at Keswick's publications and further resources here.

This podcast is from Keswick ministries. You can also find a link to their other podcast, Kes Talks, here.

This podcast was presented and produced by James Cary

The theme tune is Tiny Things by Yvonne Lyon 

Register and book for the Keswick Convention 2021 here.

Support the show

The Keswick Convention is free to attend, and will be running between 12th July and 1st August 2025.

Find out more: 2025 Convention: Transformed - Keswick Ministries

Visit the Keswick Ministries website for talks, resource and events.

Rachel Redeemed talks to Rachel Jones, author and senior editor at The Good Book Company. In this episode of the Keswick Convention Podcast, we hear some of Rachel's story as to how she came to realise her need of Jesus as a child and how that can encourage us in the seemingly every day of the Christian life.   You can hear more from Rachel in week two at the Keswick Convention with two sessions on prayer and a further two based on her book 'Is This It?'

You can read more from Rachel by picking up any of her books from The Good Book Company website: https://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/authors/rachel-jones

...or listen in on audible to A Brief Theology of Periods (Yes Really) ( https://www.audible.co.uk/author/Rachel-Jones/B07P3HXRLJ ) or Finding More ( https://www.audible.co.uk/search?searchNarrator=Rachel+Redeemed ).

You can have a look at Keswick's publications and further resources here.

This podcast is from Keswick ministries. You can also find a link to their other podcast, Kes Talks, here.

This podcast was presented and produced by Rachel Redeemed.

The theme tune is Tiny Things by Yvonne Lyon 

If you would like to Support the show, you now know where to go! (https://keswickministries.org/donate)

Register for Keswick 2021 here.

Support the show (https://keswickministries.org/donate)

Support the show

The Keswick Convention is free to attend, and will be running between 12th July and 1st August 2025.

Find out more: 2025 Convention: Transformed - Keswick Ministries

Visit the Keswick Ministries website for talks, resource and events.

Rachel Redeemed talks to Inonge Siluka, blogger, youth and women's worker while working full-time for a cancer charity as a financial advisor!  In this episode of the Keswick Convention Podcast, we hear some of Inonge's story, her faith journey, and her journey to the UK and explore her experience with church family through tricky times. Inonge shares some of her thoughts on how the hope she has in Jesus makes a difference to her every day - and indeed some thoughts on why and how we can cherish Christ in this season.  You can hear more from Inonge in week three in a session for women and girls on what it means to live a faithful life.

You can hear more from Inonge on her blog Overflow Chat here - http://www.overflowchat.com/

This maybe one to send on to women you know who are keen for evangelism but up for thinking things through by reading another women's perspective...

You can also jump in to follow Inonge on Twitter here (https://twitter.com/zambianscot)

You can have a look at Keswick's publications and further resources here.

This podcast is from Keswick ministries. You can also find a link to their other podcast, Kes Talks, here.

This podcast was presented and produced by Rachel Redeemed.

The theme tune is Tiny Things by Yvonne Lyon 

If you would like to Support the show, you now know where to go! (https://keswickministries.org/donate)

Support the show

The Keswick Convention is free to attend, and will be running between 12th July and 1st August 2025.

Find out more: 2025 Convention: Transformed - Keswick Ministries

Visit the Keswick Ministries website for talks, resource and events.

Rev Tom Putt is the vicar of St John the Baptist in Burford, and Youth leader at the Keswick Convention. He talks to James Cary about how to stay encouraged, and how parents really are the key to raising a new generation of Christians.

You can have a look at Keswick's publications and further resources here.

This podcast is from Keswick ministries. You can also find a link to their other podcast, Kes Talks, here.

This podcast was presented and produced by James Cary

The theme tune is Tiny Things by Yvonne Lyon 

Support the show

The Keswick Convention is free to attend, and will be running between 12th July and 1st August 2025.

Find out more: 2025 Convention: Transformed - Keswick Ministries

Visit the Keswick Ministries website for talks, resource and events.

James talks to Rico Tice, Senior Minister for Evangelism at All Souls, Langham Place in London, and the man behind and often in front of Christianity Explored  a husband and father of three.

Email [email protected] for more information on the Prayer meeting on Zoom and get the prayer calendar here.

Faithful Leaders by Rico Tice

Honest Evangelism by Rico Tice

Talking Jesus research can be found here.

Gav Calver episode of the podcast here.

You can have a look at Keswick's publications and further resources here.

This podcast is from Keswick ministries. You can also find a link to their other podcast, Kes Talks, here.

This podcast was presented and produced by James Cary

The theme tune is Tiny Things by Yvonne Lyon 

If you would like to Support the show, you now know where to go! (https://keswickministries.org/donate)

Support the show

The Keswick Convention is free to attend, and will be running between 12th July and 1st August 2025.

Find out more: 2025 Convention: Transformed - Keswick Ministries

Visit the Keswick Ministries website for talks, resource and events.

Rachel Redeemed talks to College Director  Dr Dan Strange,  Lecturer in Culture, Religion and Public Theology at Oak Hill Theological College. In this episode of the Keswick Convention Podcast, we hear some of Dan's story as to how he came to faith and what has been encouraging him in this season. He also shares on connecting faith to culture as well as the hope we have in Jesus and what difference that makes in the season we are in. Dan also shares some advice on supporting your church leadership, whatever that looks like for your church family and what it means to 'preach unto them Jesus'.

You can find out more from Oak Hill Theological College here:

https://www.oakhill.ac.uk

Crosslands Seminary here:

https://www.crosslands.training

You can jump in on Twitter here to hear more from Dan:

https://twitter.com/drdanstrange

You can have a look at Keswick's publications and further resources here.

This podcast is from Keswick ministries. You can also find a link to their other podcast, Kes Talks, here.

This podcast was presented and produced by Rachel Redeemed.

The theme tune is Tiny Things by Yvonne Lyon 

If you would like to Support the show, you now know where to go! (https://keswickministries.org/donate)

Support the show

The Keswick Convention is free to attend, and will be running between 12th July and 1st August 2025.

Find out more: 2025 Convention: Transformed - Keswick Ministries

Visit the Keswick Ministries website for talks, resource and events.