I have a photo I show whenever I am asked to speak to parents. It is me leading a family devotion. I am sitting in the middle of the sofa with my Bible open. My eldest is curled over one arm of the sofa, her back to me, her bottom directed towards the Bible. My middle child has his face embedded in …
The Wingfeather saga is a saga of four books written by Andrew Peterson. I got book 1 for Christmas, read it, bought book 2 with some Christmas money I was given and am writing this review to earn book 3!
Book 1 is about a family of two brothers, one sister, a mother and a Grandad. They are the Igib…
This is the one question I am always asked whenever I speak on parenting. It’s a good question. I want to know the answer to this question. I suspect I have even asked my own children this question.
There are two ways to answer this question.
1. You can’t improve your child’s behav…
Jesus headed to those at the bottom of the pile. Will our children follow him?
She was six years old, eating lunch at school. At the next table was the class naughty boy, with only a chocolate bar in his lunchbox. She had two thoughts. Firstly, chocolate bars were not allowed in lunchboxes. Secon…
You don’t need me to tell you that this year has been like no other. We have all felt the difficulties of 2020. I doubt we will forget them. We are still living with them.
The relief is that, as Christians, we can live through this season of uncertainty and hardship knowing that there is hope …
During lockdown my mum has found recipes that require the most basic of ingredients and yet produce incredible results. I have no idea how she does it. Over the years our family Bible studies have been a little like that. God took a recently-converted, Biblically-illiterate single mum and some reluc…
Immanuel.
The Bible makes the mega claim that the baby Mary gave birth to, the baby Joseph named ‘Jesus’, is in fact Immanuel – ‘God with us’.
Why is that great?
Jesus is God with us.
It seems a fairly simple statement, but those words are as stuffed with meaning as I …
“She will have a son, and they will name him Immanuel.” This name means “God is with us.” Matthew 1:23 (International Children’s Bible).
The good news of Christmas is that God is with us. In person, taking our form, into our world, hands on and messy, part of the everyd…
We have a little rule in our house. It’s called no eating, nibbling or touching of your food, until we’ve prayed and given thanks to God. It’s not that we think there’s anything particularly unholy about eating before praying. But it’s just one of those rules we have to…
I mean…. What’s not to love? Massive wheels, caterpillar treads, sticking out spouts, trundling through a golden field. Just the very sight makes me burst into “We plough the fields and scatter…” My children prefer to sing “Big, red, combine harvester, big red c…
