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Biblica and Hodder have teamed up to launch a partnership that will help fund Biblica’s Bible translation efforts around the world. The Give to Translate campaign will encourage readers of the NIV across the UK to consider making a financial contribution to help fund new Bible translations and revisions around the world. This is in...

The ructions in the Royal Family in January, widely reported (whether a fact or guess work) remind us that while they are ‘royal’ they are also a ‘family’. God sets the lonely in families, the Bible says. But He also sets the awkward, the odd and the rebellious in them. Families are not associations of...

Families are divided in two kinds of people: givers and takers.  Blessed is the family with at least one ‘giver’, that someone of a cheerful, generous nature who does not panic when you ask them for help.  These kindly saints are on hand when you need them, not fleeing with the cry “But I have...

Church Magazine Bloomers A senior moment Colourful writing Mini Pastoral care And then…. Prayers Smart money Posh pooch Lullaby Wet Family car ** Editor:  We have included some of these in previous years, but they are so much fun that if you haven’t yet seen them, you really should…. Church Magazine Bloomers You know what...

“The eye of the storm is on us,” said a Barnabas Fund contact after three Christian teachers, all in their 20s, were murdered in an attack by Al Shabaab jihadists on a primary school compound in Kenya on 13th January. Another teacher was shot twice in the leg, and a fifth managed to escape when...

Never mind living, soon it will be too expensive to die!  The cost of funerals has reached record highs, with families now spending an average of £9,493 on a funeral.   That is an increase of more than three per cent in just the past year.  Only if you are really strict, and shop around, can...

The London Marathon will be run next month (April). Here is some good news for anyone training for it: running a marathon for the first time can reverse key markers of your ageing by up to four years. Research at University College London and Barts Health NHS Trust found that people who trained for six...

This beautiful event (Luke 1:26-38) took place in Nazareth, when Mary is already betrothed to Joseph. The Archangel Gabriel comes to Mary, greets her as highly favoured, tells her not to be afraid, that she will bear a son Jesus, and that her elderly cousin Elizabeth is already pregnant (with John the Baptist). The church...

Do you ever worry that your past failings mean that God will not accept you now?    Some of us have done many things which we regret – things that have caused us, or others, great pain.  We’ve given our children short shrift, we’ve betrayed our marriage partners, we’ve been dishonest at work, we’ve been ruthlessly...

Stone-throwing Prayer for help and healing Saul and David The Table Hunger for God ** Stone-throwing (John 8:1-11) A familiar scene … Crowds of people with strong views, clamouring, demanding their way, intolerant of others who made different mistakes, different choices. A raucous, intimidating, egocentric baying for action. A familiar scene… Where is the love?...

The long list of television programmes concerned with renovating, moving home, and celebrity homes shows how interested we are in other people’s homes, and how they live. The style and furnishings of the buildings vary considerably, and you can find out a great deal about the person by looking at what they have on display...

When I was nearly three, I knocked a bucket of tadpoles all over the patio. Those unfortunate creatures must have been collected to educate my brother and I on where frogs came from, but a toddler can’t just stand by and watch. Can I see up close? Or maybe I was ‘helpfully’ moving it to...