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What is fellowship with God?

What is fellowship with God?

Christianity is history, rooted and grounded in solid historical fact. It is not a myth. But knowing God is not just a history lesson. Christianity has powerful and unique teachings or doctrines: God is one, but [...]

Amazing and essential

Amazing and essential

This article is hard-hitting. But please hear me out. Those targeted are preachers and ordinary Christians like ourselves. We are all in this together. And the blame must be shared. Why? Why is there so little [...]

Holiday Bible Club Resources

Holiday Bible Club Resources

If you want a ‘one stop shop’ for your Holiday Bible Club then look no further than these two new manuals prepared by Colin Jones and published by Day One in the Just Add Children series. [...]

12 Hidden Heroes

12 Hidden Heroes

What’s the title and why is it significant? Both books are called 12 Hidden Heroes – one on people from the Old Testament, the other on people from the New. This is significant because whenever heroes [...]

The decline of biblical literacy

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

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

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?

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?

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

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. [...]