Christmas
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Christina Rossetti’s ‘snow on snow’
I’m sure that this Christmas we shall all enjoy singing Christina Rossetti’s fine verse: In the bleak mid‐winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid‐winter, Long ago. But is...
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Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing
I am sure that this Christmas, as at every Christmas, we shall enjoy singing ‘O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant’. Modern hymnbooks, including Complete Mission Praise, use a 1986 modernisation so that the first line reads ‘O...
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Christmas with Billy Graham
I should love to have been a fly on the wall when, in 1955, Rev John Stott, Rector of All Souls Church, next to the BBC in Langham Place, London, arranged a meeting between Billy Graham and C.S. Lewis, then a...
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The power of love
What were you doing on Saturday 19 May this year? I think it’s quite likely that you were one of apparently two billion people throughout the world who watched on TV the wedding of Harry and Meghan in St...
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