Many of you will probably remember English lessons at school and having the meaning of 'simile' and 'metaphor' drilled into you. A simile is a figure of speech when you say something is like... or as... something else. (eg "For hope grew round me, like the twining...

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In order to understand what is meant by 'success' in Christian terms, however, we need to have a Biblical definition of success, an understanding of who can succeed and some idea of how to be successful, for the world's understanding of success is very different to...