Niki Hardy

• How to hear God's voice when you're desperate for an answer

  I prayed and prayed for God to make it super abundantly clear. This was big and we needed to be one hundred per cent sure.

• I've lived with cancer: I know God can handle it when we scream at him

  I've learned screaming at God is never bad. He's big enough to handle it and I'm sure he'd rather I turned to him than anyone or anything else.

• When Christmas is just plain hard: 5 ways to help you cope

  Christmas is often more messy and broken than merry and bright.

• Angry with God? 3 simple steps to deal with your rage

  My anger wasn't red hot and raging. More of a smouldering slow burn, built up over time, corroding my heart and soul, straining our relationship.

• My love-hate relationship with praying scripture

  Although I admired women who could spout off scripture mid-prayer and knew praying God's word back to him was powerful, I also found them slightly pretentious.

• 7 ways to recapture your spiritual get up and go

  Does tiredness turn you into a spiritual sloth?

• Assumptions Christians make about God when life falls apart

  Still groggy from the anaesthesia, I was ushered into a small, lifeless room where I was given the news. They'd found a large tumour that was either cancer or lymphoma.