When pupils study languages, there are four 'assessment objectives' that are tested, largely because there are four main ways in which we absorb and use language: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Jesus is called 'the Word' (John 1:1 TNIV) and we often...

One of the key prophecies we remember at Christmas-time is found in Isaiah 7:14 TNIV: 'Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.' This is quoted in the birth narratives in Matthew...

It never fails to irritate me that so many Christmas songs have banal lyrics and very little to do with the real meaning of Christmas. (I know, I know, bah humbug and all that, but actually, it's because I love Christmas so much that I get so irritated by the...