Archive for 'February,2012'

Book reviews: Personal Bible reading

Book reviews: Personal Bible reading

1.       Short study guides from the Good Book Company, series edited by Tim Chester. £3 each. Women of Faith – volumes on the Old and New Testaments Introducing Jesus: Life-changing Encounters from the Gospel of John [...]

Book reviews: Family Worship

Book reviews: Family Worship

1.       Books about family worship Lead Your Family in Worship by Francois Carr. Day One. £5 Teach Your Family the Truth by Brian Stone. Day One. £5 Teach Your Children to Pray by Denise George. Christian [...]

Finally alive

Finally alive

My parents were Christians and I went to church with them when I was a child. I always said that I believed in God, but didn’t question too deeply about what that meant to me. At [...]

1859

1859

1859 is the year when revival, which began in America in 1857, spread to the British Isles. That, however, was more climax than ‘turning point’. (A brief account may be found in The church that Christ [...]

The art of balancing

The art of balancing

Issues facing young women today I undertook a small scale survey among some of my female friends in their twenties and early thirties to find out what they felt were the top three key issues facing [...]