the waiting country

but Jesus Christ and him crucified is not simply about the words i speak, that they be of him, for him, to him; but also, for his sake, know...

Yup, here you go .

Cribbed from CT .

An economist writes about writing.

The Holy Spirit uses a man with converting power when the people see in that man not demands of them but desires for them. Raymond C Ortlund...

There are so many ways in which one might learn from the late Alistair Cooke but, whilst reading his piece of the recently-deceased (when th...

New Testament scholar Robert Yarbrough was interviewed about his forthcoming commentary on 1-3 John ( here ). During the interview, he was a...

Is this article sad? Or is it simply inevitable? You decide.

...has got herself a Blue Peter badge. Well done, Iola!

My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there th...

For some time, the volume 'Thirst' by Mary Oliver has been on my Amazon wish list. I don't remember how I first read about these...

She said I was wrong; I thought I was right. So I left her to choose the way.

Can Sundays be fun days if they precede Mondays? I'd rather choose Tuesday as follow-on to Sunday. But what then of Monday? Wednesday ne...

on the Beatitudes from Scot McKnight: The Beatitudes are normally mis understood as a list of virtues. The Beatitudes are not, however, a vi...

I got tagged by Alan Davey to report my best 5 teachers. Here we go: 1. All-time tops would have to be Mr Curwen who taught us Latin in Ysgo...

Unbroken blue skies for the whole week - what an amazing gift from God! Spent time in and around Harlech, Porthmadoc, Beddgelert, Borth Y Ge...

We read Graham Greene's The Power and The Glory for 'A' level English Literature. I just picked it up again today at the librar...

Have it your way, someone said. And you can. Take albums, for instance. No longer do we have to suffer the weaker tracks, the songs that bor...

I think that I can safely say that the Judeo-Christian Bible is a self-help book that has probably enabled more people to make more extensiv...

years passed since your passing; since the moment your life ceased with a final lunge; since the loosed departure into a void not seen and y...