A Great Day in Aberystwyth

In complete contrast to the ridiculous idea of having a donkey in a service of worship we were treated to the unadulterated Gospel at Alfred Place Baptist Church yesterday. Here Christ and His cross were at the centre, not donkeys, drums, entertainment and all manner of man-centred trivia. It was great to be in Aber [...]

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2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,800 times in 2010. That’s about 4 full [...]

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Happy New Year

Having missed the opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Christmas it would be remiss of me to miss wishing you all a very Blessed New Year. So here it is: Happy New Year.

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Scary Blast from the Past

For my birthday this year I was sent this picture.  It was taken when a Christian for just a very short time (a couple of months maybe) when about 25.  The girls in the church decided to have a bit of fun with my hair! My daughter scanned the picture for me and gave it [...]

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The Love of God

In the ministry of our Pastor today (see previous post) he gives an account of some words found on the cell wall of an asylum.  The words found were these: Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made, Were every stalk on earth a quill, And every man a [...]

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Jesus’ Birth and Your New Birth

We are privileged to attend a church where the Word of God is faithfully preached each week.  The Lord Jesus Christ is lifted up in the ministry.  Sadly, for many churchgoers this is not always the case.  If you were wondering what Christmas is about then listen to the sermon from this morning.  Pastor Watts [...]

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Who Made God? – A brief review

‘Who Made God? Searching for a Theory of Everything’ (EP Books, Darlington, 2009.) is a new book by Professor Edgar Andrews BSc. PhD, DSc, FInstP, FIMMM, CEng, CPhys, retired head (and founder) of the Department of Materials Science at the University of London. As it says on the tin, the book seeks to answer the [...]

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Welcome to the World – Sarah Elizabeth Iliff

This morning (1/11/2009) at 4:04 our daughter-in-law gave birth to our first grandchild – Sarah Elizabeth Iliff, daughter to Chris & Katy. Mother and child are doing well – though Mum is very tired.  In fact they are both out of hospital and are at home. We are absolutely delighted Sarah weighed in at Seven [...]

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Super Gross!!

Super gross, and I’m not talking about the 144,000 but something I found in the kitchen on Saturday morning.  We have a container for cooking salt (for all culinary purposes) and as I would be doing some alterations in the kitchen I needed to move a load of stuff and this included the salt keeper. [...]

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Pilgrim’s Progress – Mason’s Notes (2)

Here’s another instalment form Mason’s Notes.  I placed the extract from Pilgrim’s Progress in italics and the relevant word in bold followed by Mason’s Notes. I think you get the idea.  The picture on the left is a scan (not scam!) of the notes.  The picture on the right is from a couple of pages [...]

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How to Read a Book

Ken Samples has delivered (I assume) the third of his Academy Lecture Series “Learning Skills 101: Learning How to Learn” using Mortimer J Adler’s book ‘How to Read a Book’ and the chapters on logic from his own book ‘A World of Difference’.  He plans to give a total of 8 lectures.  If the first [...]

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Of the Making of Books…

On Saturday we spent the day in Hay-on-Wye.  Like many, I had heard of this famous town of ‘Bookshops’ but never been.  The day itself couldn’t have been better – a beautiful sunny day, a pleasant journey with my wife and another couple, and, the (maybe the last) opportunity to wear shorts, sandals and a [...]

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Pilgrim’s Progress – Mason’s Notes (1)

This will be the first of several posts from Mason’s Notes.  Quotations from Pilgrim’s Progress can be found at Christian Classics Ethereal Library. ‘As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den*, *Bedford jail, in which the author was imprisoned for conscience’ sake.’ Mason’s Note [...]

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Meet The Puritans

Danny Hyde (Pastor of Oceanside United Reformed Church) and three other contributors have a new blog called Meet the Puritans.  In their own words: This website is a collaborative effort. You can read about the contributors in the Author Profiles page at the top left of the home page. The purpose of this website is to [...]

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Pilgrim’s Progress – Mason’s Notes

We had friends round last night for a meal together and afterwards we chatted briefly about John Bunyan and ‘Pilgrims Progress’.  I remembered an edition I have of this book with ‘Mason’s notes’.  A previous work-mate bought me this edition (a small hardback copy) from a second hand book shop for 20 pence.  I used [...]

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