Hello 2022, how are you? Well, time will tell on that one. My apologies for beginning the year of blog posts with such unfashionable rhyming. As usual at this time of year, I run through the books I've read (or finished) in the past twelve months. Unusually, however, I actually cracked my #yearlyreadinggoal and read …
If you knew how long I’d been looking at the computer screen and trying to work out where to start, you’d probably think it was because I didn’t know very much about Jim and Elisabeth. In actual fact, I’ve read a fair bit about them. Looking on my bookshelf I can see five of Elisabeth’s …
Gladys Aylward, otherwise known as ‘The Little Woman’, had a film made about her life called The inn of the sixth happiness (staring Ingrid Bergman). I went to watch it once but then discovered that it went for almost three hours. That was the end of that. You can watch the trailer here though, which …
“Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.” What is it with missionaries and quotes? Or maybe it’s more of a reflection on my memory than anything else. (I’m probably not alone in that). The above sentence is the William Carey quote. I’m sure he said a bunch of other great stuff, but …
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