For those of you who have followed the saga of our chilli-growing experiences over the past fifteen months or so, you may be wondering how things are going after our summer batch of chillies. The tops of the chilli plants (where all the growing activity has been...

In what must be a record for our church, we not only completed a whole chapter in the Bible study in one week, but a whole book! Admittedly that book was 2 John, which is one of the shortest letters in the New Testament, but even so, there was a real sense of...

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...