Archive for 'Christian Living'
What do we tell the kids about Santa?
When it comes to cultural issues like Santa, Christians have three options: 1) we can reject it, 2) we can receive it, or 3) we can redeem it. Since Santa is so pervasive in our culture, it [...]
Life after university
Leaving university and going into the real world, or indeed heading back home, can be a daunting and exciting prospect. Three recent graduates share their experiences: New challenges Six years ago I graduated from university, where [...]
Our love for one another
‘This is My commandment, that you love another as I have loved you’ (John 15:12). I wonder whether you’ve ever asked yourselves, ‘Why did our Lord call this commandment His commandment?’ This was His commandment in [...]
God’s forgiveness and ours
One of our children once said of me to her brother, ‘He’s getting just like granddad!’ She had noticed that I was showing the marks of getting older – so I was not altogether pleased. Generally [...]
So you have no children?
It was a cold, dark November evening. We had known much excitement in the week and a half after moving to Marlow. Joy, as family and friends joined us at the induction service, was magnified by [...]
Me! A member?
‘Membership’ can be a funny concept. You can be a member of a golf club, or a swimming club; you can be a member of a political party, or a professional body; you can belong to [...]
Sisters, servants, fellow-workers
If you ever go to the cinema, do you watch to the end? If you are like me, you watch the final scene and when the theme music rises and credits start to roll that is [...]
Why should I go to church?
Are you personally committed to following Jesus Christ? And are you personally committed to a specific congregation? If your answer to the first question is ‘yes’, then your answer to the second question ought to be [...]
What are you really looking forward to?
Richard Baxter, the famous English Puritan, spent much of his life enduring great physical pain. It made him more aware of the brevity of life and the certainty of death. From the age of thirty-five he [...]
Ministering to the afflicted
When Job was afflicted, his friends loved him to the extent that they got alongside him and sat with him for a week in silence and then wrestled with him over the issues raised by his [...]
Reaching rural Wales
Great to read this. I've been doing a similar thing, going around rura
A little known quarryman in Wales
Thank you for your wonderful article. I happened onto the movie, "Bey
So you have no children?
Thank you so much for writing this article. It is very comforting. It'
The great harvest
I live and worship in Yeadon, in a church born out of the revival. It
Feminine Threads
I was interested in the above review of Diana Severance's book. Althou