‘No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty.’ So said C S Lewis and this is no truer than for the imaginative works that he wrote himself. Often I return to the ...
Read More »The Joy Of Keeping Christmas
1 John 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. “Bah! Humbug!” scowled Scrooge, the central character in A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens described the infamous Scrooge as a tight-fisted, squeezing, wrenching, grasping, covetous old sinner! A cold-hearted man ...
Read More »Daring To Discipline
1 Samuel 2:29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honorest thy sons above me to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people? Eli, high priest to the people of Israel. Father ...
Read More »The Christmas Star
Twinkle, twinkle, Christmas star, How I wonder what you are. Up upon the tree at night, Like a diamond shining bright. Twinkle, twinkle, Christmas star, How I wonder what you are. Armed with glue, gold glitter, scissors, cardboard star templates and paddle pop sticks, I plonked myself in a cushiony ...
Read More »Going Above And Beyond
Proverbs 3:27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. For those of us who didn’t know it, this week people all over the world celebrate World Teacher’s Day. They are those remarkable men and women ...
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