How spiritual are you ? How much do you love God ? In effect, these questions ask the same thing, just using different words. Your spirituality is measured by how much you love God and want to live your life in accord with his teaching. Consider this hymn by Charles Wesley – My God !…
Pride versus Humility by Derek Prince Published by Derek Prince Ministries – UK, 2016 138 pages £5.99 from DPM ISBN 978 1 782 633 525 also available as an ebook or Kindle or cd “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exalted” (Matthew 23 : 12) This is the key…
The Book Thief (dvd) 2013 125 minutes £3 The particular interest in this film is mainly in its setting. Germany in the 1930s and 1940s is where this story takes place, the period which saw the rise of the Nazi party under Adolf Hitler leading to the second World War. A young girl, Liesel, is…
A theory of everything (that matters) : a short guide to Einstein, relativity and the future of faithby Alister McGrath Hodder & Stoughton, 2019 179 pages £11.99 ISBN 978 1 529 377 958also available as an ebook This book has been written to celebrate the centenary of the event that proved Einstein’s theories ofrelativity, to…
Imagine the pride and sense of achievement if you were only one of a dozen people to do something really impressive, something that no-one else had ever done. James Irwin walked on the moon ! How’s that for a lifetime achievement ! All the more surprising is that James always wanted to be in the…
Police Inspector Barry Wright was not just a policeman at Scotland Yard, he was also an ordained priest in the church of England.. The odd thing, looking back to his early life, is that, even as a child, he wanted to be both a policeman and a priest but he didn’t know what to do…
Daniel was the youngest of three children and the shortest at six feet one inch. He came from a baker’s family and, leaving school at 15, joined the family firm selling bread and cakes. He had an inexhaustible love of painting which would eventually lead him into serious trouble. He’d stop and paint or sketch…
Haunted by Christ : modern writers and the struggle for faith by Richard Harries. SPCK, 2019£9.99 228 pages ISBN 978 0 281 079 346 also available as an ebook The former Bishop of Oxford has written here about 20 modern writers, mostly British, in 15chapters. The approach, in particular, is to examine what part Christian…
A thousand tongues : the Wesley hymns as a guide to scriptural teaching by John Lawson. Paternoster, 2007 ISBN 978 1 842 275 504 £12.99 Wesley hymns. Hinde St. Methodist Church, 2018 ISBN 978 0 992 613 204 £18 The volume and extent of Charles Wesley’s hymns reveal only too clearly the breadth, depth…
The Alpha course attracts positive and negative comment. Consider, for example, the story of Simon Dixon, a talented musician who began the piano at the age of 5. Simon’s story is too long to go into all the detail here but a full career in church music, teaching, conducting and concerts filled his life, ‘music…