This post is really for the pastor, who loves Brussels sprouts so much he even re-wrote a Christmas song in their honour... I do apologise for the Christmas theme some of you may feel inherent in talking about this vegetable. If it's any consolation, I heard a child...

Philip Paul Bliss (1838-1876) was a well known teacher, evangelist and soloist. He wrote many hymns, inlcuding 'I will sing of my Redeemer' and the melody to 'It is well with my soul.' He died at the young age of thirty-eight in a train crash. Of the 160 passengers,...

A friend of mine once remarked wryly that I 'have a song for every occasion.' I don't know about that, but as I was listening to the sermon on the atoning cross last night, I couldn't help thinking about a song (from 1993, as it turns out!) called 'Cross of Gold'....