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Follow me in this analogy and see if it helps you catch fresh insight into some Bible truth. I find that different ways of explaining things suit different people, so the use of analogy often helps open up a truth to people in a fresh way.
The Galley Slave
Imagine that you are a slave on board [...]

John Wycliffe died on December 31, 1384.
He was born of sturdy Saxon stock in Ipreswell, Yorkshire, England, somewhere around the year 1320 (the date range is from 1320-1330, but 1324 is the date often chosen). It was in an age of spiritual darkness – and 200 years before Luther would shake the church with his [...]

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, on December 30, 1865, and many of the stories for which he later became famous bear the marks of that Indian background.
His father was a teacher of arts and crafts and Rudyard was raised by a maid who taught him Hindustani as his first language. However, at age [...]

I have already opened the contentious topic of modern Christian music for your consideration and in this post I want to start building a basis for thinking through some of the divergent elements to find a means of assessing, understanding and directing what we are dealing with.
Christian Music
I pointed out previously that there are battle [...]

William Ewart Gladstone was born “into an evangelical Liverpool (UK) family” on December 29, 1809, as the son of a prosperous merchant.
Educated at Eton and then Oxford University he was elected to Parliament in 1832. He spent his life in British politics, becoming Prime Minister of England for four terms and Chancellor of the Exchequer [...]

Charles Hodge was born in Philadelphia, USA, on December 28, 1797, as the last of five children, only two of which survived infancy.
Those who adhere to the Reformed tradition have described Hodge as “the leading American theologian of the 19th century”.
When Hodge was six months old his father died, leaving the mother to raise the [...]

Today’s Christians have lost sight of true freedom. They think that the level of survival which they have attained is the scope of their freedom. This is spiritual blindness and holds whole churches back from the freedom that is theirs in Christ.
I have discussed freedom in various ways over recent months, but a recent discussion [...]

Benajah Harvey Carroll was born on December 27, 1843, in Mississippi, USA as one of 12 children.
Even though his father was a Baptist minister, supporting his family as a farmer, young Carroll was “a dedicated infidel”.
He moved with his family to Arkansas in 1848 and Texas in 1858. He entered Baylor University at age [...]

“Why do we call the day after Christmas Day ‘Boxing Day’?” If you’ve never been able to answer that question then this article will be helpful to you.
St Stephen’s Day is observed by some churches on December 26, and that gives rise to the title of Boxing Day – which I’ll explain later.
For the past [...]

My children found a poem I had started five years ago. They were keen for me to tidy it up, so it was complete. So I’ve done that, and here it is….
I Was There. A Poem by Chris Field
It seems I was there, so the pictures declare.
Aloof among the smiles, companion through the miles.
Yet I [...]