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The decline of biblical literacy
It was Saturday night and my youngest daughter’s cry of anguish had me dashing downstairs from my study to see what disaster had befallen her. I found Elizabeth, who was about nine at the time, remonstrating [...]
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 [...]
Family worship
‘Religion was established first in families, and there the devil seeks to crush it… The family is the training ground of Church and State; and if children are not well instructed there, both will fail. Families [...]
Can we really believe the Old Testament?
Do you believe that Jonah was swallowed by a great fish? Do you believe that Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were cast into a furnace and came out alive and unhurt? Was Daniel actually thrown into the [...]
A radical idea?
It’s a radical idea, isn’t it – getting Christians to read the Bible? Perhaps you’ve seen the statistics of how few Christians read the Bible at all between one Sunday and the next. Yet people grow [...]
The centrality of scripture
‘What pastures are to the beast, the nest for the birds, the stream for fish, the scriptures are for believing souls.’ So wrote Luther in his own inimitable way. Christianity is a religion of The Book. [...]
A lineage of grace
A Lineage of Grace is a series of five novels about Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary; five women whose lives and backgrounds made them unlikely choices to feature in the family line of Jesus Christ. [...]
Bala Evangelical Church
Whilst the Evangelical Movement of Wales (EMW) began officially in 1955, its seeds took root in 1948, with both Bala and Dolgellau featuring prominently in its early development. God did a new work. In 1958 a [...]
The King James Bible
For the 350th anniversary of the Authorised Version (AV), the Evangelical Alliance organised a National Bible Rally at the Albert Hall in London on 24 October 1961. A scientist, a school teacher and an archaeologist took [...]
Is the Bible unreliable?
A friend of mine who runs a youth group in a rough area told me that he often finds that one of his eight-year-old kids knows absolutely nothing about the Bible … and yet feels quite [...]
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