December 2011
4 posts
A Third of a Ton of Christmas!
I was Ebenezer Scrooge this morning, and it felt fantastic.
Everybody knows the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol”. Even my young children know it, because one of our family traditions is to watch the Muppets version of the story every year during the run-up to Christmas. It charts the conversion of Ebenezer Scrooge from an old miser to a repentant sinner during the short...
Christopher Hitchens Believes in God
Christopher Hitchens believes in God. He didn’t when he died last Friday.
One of the sharpest, wittiest, most intelligent modern British writers, Christopher Hitchens published his best-selling book “God Is Not Great: Why Religion Poisons Everything” in 2007. He spent the last four years of his life promoting his book and its message before cancer of the oesophagus forced him...
Straight to the Heart Series Now Available as...
Great news. The first Kindle and eBook versions of the Straight To The Heart series of devotional commentaries are now out and available to download from Amazon and other good online retailers.
Just in time for Christmas. What could a husband or wife, son or daughter, mum or dad, and boyfriend or girlfriend possibly find a more romantic gift on Christmas morning?!
God Still Remembers What Happened in Colliers Wood
Colliers Wood is normally famous for the wrong reasons.
If you aren’t from the UK then you probably haven’t heard of Colliers Wood at all. If you are, then you probably know it as home to the office block which was voted “Britain’s ugliest building” or as the place where looters set fire to PC World and attacked police cars last summer. You may know it as one of...