Jack Bell was born in 1923 in Blackburn, his parents were mill workers at the time but later they owned and ran a grocery store. He attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School and left in 1941 with Higher School Certificate in science subjects. He applied to join the RAF but failed the medical- he never knew...
Roger's series - The word ACTS is frequently used as a way of remembering four essential parts of prayer Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication. When the word “Acts” is used to help us understand parts of prayer, the letter “C” stands for Confession. Tom had just retrieved his football from his dad’s greenhouse and now...
January 2021 Magazine The arrival of a baby brings celebration. What a joy to hold a new-born baby! What promise for the future! What fascination with their development! What sleepless nights! All this and more surrounded the birth the son born to Joseph and Mary who they named Jesus. The arrival of Jesus would have...
The word ACTS is frequently used as a way of remembering four essential parts of prayer Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication. Last month I touched on the idea that prayer is essentially a loving relationship with God so adoration is a good starting point. Evelyn Underhill wrote, “Adoration is caring for God above all else”...
The carol "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" is based a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. During the American Civil War, Longfellow's oldest son, Charles Appleton Longfellow, joined the Union cause as a soldier without his father's blessing. Charles soon got an appointment as a lieutenant but was severely wounded in battle. Coupled with...