Here’s an interesting thought - the Devil is real. To many that will seem laughable. Surely, he’s only a character in horror movies, or a...

When you are a child your life is normal – it’s everyone else’s that is strange. But I soon learnt that some things about my family were...

On Wednesday evening, we (Grace Church Wakefield) hosted our first LIFE event called “Is there Deliverance from Disappointment?”. It was...

After days of tragic and sometimes terrifying news from Ukraine, at last a good headline: the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and...

But weren't you brought up Christian? Many people assume that your religion is something you are brought up with, that it's not so much a...

This Sunday Slow Cooker Sunday returns. The last was 1st March 2020! SCS is simple - dinner together following the church service served,...

Over the New Year period my family and I spent a week on the Isle of Wight, where I grew up. It sometimes surprises people up here in...

Most people know that the Christmas story is about a baby being born. That, in itself, is wonderful - children are a real blessing and...

December is sometimes a bitter-sweet month when the festive fun jars with tragic events we see in the news and experience in our own...

Are you a cult? As I write, ‘cults’ are again in the news. Cults control and manipulate their members. While they very often use the term...

What makes a great church? A church might try to encourage you to belong to it by telling you it is a 'great church'. But I often want to...

Joanne was recently baptised at Grace Church Wakefield. Someone is baptised when they personally trust in the Lord Jesus Christ for their...

We have previously highlighted 24th October 2021 as the date we would remove the majority of our Covid-19 restrictions for Sunday...

We commonly find that when we try to explain Christianity to our neighbours and friends in Wakefield they think we are suggesting that...

I won’t lie, I have always kind of liked church. As a child, I went to Roman Catholic church a lot with my school or with my parents. I...

We set aside 10% of all the ‘offerings’ received by GCW to support outside causes. We were recently glad to have been able to send gifts...

A message from Ian Goodson (Pastor, GCW) Being a Christian is amazing. True peace with God, real forgiveness, the power to change,...

Acting responsibly From Monday 19th July legal restrictions relating to Covid-19 are due to be lifted. However, the government clearly...

Ian Goodson says our instinctive response to pray in a crisis shows that many people are 'closet believers' in some sort of God....

It's something I've always done … I’ve always gone to church. And I am now so thankful that my parents dragged me along church meetings...