I hadn’t been a Christian very long when I discovered surely one of the most revolutionary verses in the Bible. ‘Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.’ (Eph 5:19-20...

In my family, I am well known for hyperbole: deliberate exaggeration for effect. "I've told you that a thousand times!" I say regularly. As a literary device, hyperbole (all three syllables of it: it's a lovely word!) and its opposite, litotes, are often effective in...

I love watching little children. They worship God so enthusiastically; they approach life so positively; they have a gleam and a sparkle in their eyes that shines more brilliantly than the finest diamond. It doesn’t matter how mundane the thing seems to us, they have...