One of the privileges of my job is time to read and study. And I love to read anyway in the evenings before I go to bed. So, from this month on, I intend to record on this blog the books I read each month, with some lessons and reflections and some recommendations for books...
“So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry...
I love reading old Christian authors and was recently moved, as I read some of John Flavel’s writing. In his “Epistle to the Reader” and introduction to a series of sermons on Revelation, he writes beautifully. In particular, one passage expresses how astonishing it is that, despite atheism, impure living and bitter opposition to goodness,...
Hi, my name is Lindsey. I became a Christian in 2011 during an Alpha course recommended to me by my husband, Hugh. In January 2022 I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer that had spread to my liver. I started palliative chemotherapy treatment in March 2022 and sadly had to give up my job...
While Rachael and I took some time off, over the past two weeks, I picked up Lord of the Rings to read again – I love the movies, but hadn’t read the book since I was a teenager. Near the beginning of The Two Towers, Pippin wonders why on earth Gandalf and Elrond let him...
