On a day when men were counted, God became the Son of Man; That His name in every census Would be entered, was His plan. God, the Lord of all Creation, Humble takes a creature’s place, He whose form no man has witnessed, Has today a human face. When there shone the Star of David [...]

THE CHIPPED CROSS Ron was a paratrooper in the Second World War. When his battalion camped in a French abbey, a member of that community gave him a metal cross to wear. On March 24, 1945, Ron woke up late. As he rushed for reveille, he thrust the cross into the breast pocket of his [...]

Mary Jones was born into a poor Welsh family, in December, 1784. Her father was a weaver by trade. Her parent were Methodists, and Mary herself accepted Jesus Christ as her personal Saviour at the age of eight. The family lived at the foot of a mountain in North Wales. Mary learned to read in [...]

THE HEAVENLY VISITOR. If Jesus came to your house to spend a day or two, If He came unexpectedly, I wonder what you’d do? Oh yes I know you’d give your nicest room to such an honoured guest. And all the food you’d serve Him would be your very best. And you would keep assuring [...]

HARVEST HYMN  by John Betjeman We spray the fields and scatter The poison on the ground So that no wild flowers Upon our farm be found. We like whatever helps us To line our purse with pence; The twenty-four hour broiler house And neat electric fence. All concrete sheds around us And Jaguars in the [...]

Turning A Stumbling Block Into A Stepping Stone Fanny Crosby the hymwriter was born in New York in 1820. At six weeks old she was blinded when hot poultice were put on her eyes by an unqualified doctor. In 1858 she married Alexander Van Alstyne, a blind music teacher. Fanny’s hymns won immediate popularity. Within [...]

It was battered and scarred and the autioneer thought it scarcely worth his wihile To waste much time on the old violin, but he held it up with a smile. “What am I bidbing, good folks” he cried, “Who’ll start the bidding for me?” “A dollar, a dollar, now two, only two? Who’ll make it [...]

“What shall I do then with Jesus Christ?” says Pilate the judge to the crowd. “What shall I do with this innocent Man?” Their answer came quickly and loud: “Away with Him, crucify, crucify Him, we want Him to hang on the tree. We want to crucify Jesus the Christ, and then let Barrabas go [...]

We are the paint that was left on the palette, After the painter had found the true shade; We are the pieces knocked off by the mallet, Till the form hid in stone was displayed. We are the words that the poet discarded, Seeking the one word to finish his line; We are the people [...]

This Is My Story – What Is Life All About? I was born in Liverpool. Expelled from school at 14, I started work on an ice crean van, and then on Liverpool market stalls. I always wanted to sing and got the opportunity on Stars in Their Eyes performing as Phil Collins. Despite having achieved [...]

A – Admit you are a sinner. B – Believe in Jesus and become a child of God by receiving Jesus Christ C – Confess to others that Jesus is your Lord and Saviour. Let’s pray this prayer together: Dear God, I confess that You are holy and just. I confess my sinfulness to You; [...]

THERE’S A WORK FOR JESUS READY AT YOUR HAND There’s a King and a Captain high, and He’s coming by and by, And He’ll find me hoeing cotton when He comes. You can hear His legions charging in the regions of the sky, And He’ll find me hoeing cotton when He comes. There’s a Man [...]

Bill Wilson — The comeback kid, goes To Florida every Christmas and sits all night in the same spot where his mother left him. She told me to wait, and that’s exactly what I did – for three days. All I could do was try to be brave and choke back the tears. Mum never [...]

When Jesus came to Golgotha, they hanged Him on a tree They drove great nails through hands and feet, and made a Calvary. They crowned Him with a crown of thorns, red were His wounds and deep. For those were crude and cruel days, and human flesh was cheap. When Jesus came to Norwich, they [...]

What kind of love is this that gave itself for me? I am the guilty one, yet I go free; What kind of love is this, a love I’ve never known; I didn’t even know His name, what kind of love is this? What kind of love is this that died in agony? He Who [...]