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Fighting the Monday feeling

Martin Cole | 24 Dec 2012

Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies.
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,
your justice like the great deep.
O Lord, you preserve both man and beast.
How priceless is your unfailing love!
Both high and low among men
find refuge in the shadow of your wings.
They feast on the abundance of your house;
you give them drink from your river of delights.
For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.

Continue your love to those who know you,
your righteousness to the upright in heart.

Psalm 36 v 5-10

   

Fighting the Monday Feeling

10% off Daily Reading Notes

Helen Thorne | 21 Dec 2012

Personal Bible reading is a great way to grow in knowledge, fall deeper in love with the Lord and get equipped for service. So why not start the new year as you mean to go on - with a structured daily Bible reading plan in place?

From now until January 1st, all our blog readers can order copies of XTB,Table Talk, Discover, Engage and Explore with a 10% discount. Simply enter the code dailyreading10 when you get to the checkout and enjoy opening up the Bible in 2013.

   

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Festive Opening Hours

Helen Thorne | 21 Dec 2012

For your information, here are our opening hours over the Christmas period:

UK office:
December 24th: office closed
December 25th: office closed
December 26th: office closed
December 27th-28th: office open as usual

US office:
December 24th: office closed
December 25th: office closed
December 26th-28th: office open as usual

Please feel free to continue to order via email or via the websites while the offices are closed - we'll look forward to processing your order as soon as we're able on our return.

   

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When Christmas is hard

Helen Thorne | 21 Dec 2012

"It's the most wonderful time of the year". Or so the 1960's crooner, Andy Williams would have us believe. And his tune - along with many others sharing the same sentiment - are being piped at us endlessly as we shop, commute and potter round the house. Wherever we turn, we are confronted with cheery melodies, tinsel and trimmings, party invitations and the expectation of some presents to remember.

Of course, there's some truth in the sentiment that it's a wonderful time of year. Remembering the moment when God took on human flesh to save us from our sins is undoubtedly awesome, profoundly life-changing. But that doesn't necessarily make Christmas fun. And, personally, I don't find it hard to think of people who are, quite frankly, dreading it:... continue reading

Countdown to doomsday

Tim Thornborough | 20 Dec 2012

Had to write this post today, because, if the Mayans are to be believed, I will not have the chance tomorrow, because the world will have ended.

The latest flurry of activity from global doomsayers centres on a particular reading of ancient Mayan calendar systems, which finishes its 5,125 year cycle on Friday December 21st, although modern descendants of the Mayans on the Yukatan Peninsula in Central America are simply saying that when this cycle ends, another one will begin - so what's the fuss about.... continue reading

10% off Daily Reading Notes

Helen Thorne | 20 Dec 2012

Personal Bible reading is a great way to grow in knowledge, fall deeper in love with the Lord and get equipped for service. So why not start the new year as you mean to go on - with a structured daily Bible reading plan in place?

From now until January 1st, all our blog readers can order copies of XTB,Table Talk, Discover, Engage and Explore with a 10% discount. Simply enter the code dailyreading10 when you get to the checkout and enjoy opening up the Bible in 2013.

   

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Christianity In The News

Helen Thorne | 20 Dec 2012

Christian US parents to sue over school yoga classes

Bridging the gap between Judaism and Christianity

First gay Bible produced

New Archbishop will miss the north east




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Christianity in the News

All about angels

Helen Thorne | 20 Dec 2012

They’re everywhere at the moment. There are the small children – usually girls – swathed in white sheets and gold tinsel all poised to enter stage left and address the tea-towel clad shepherds and associated stuffed sheep with “tidings of great joy”. There are the cards we’re sending and receiving. There may even be one on the top of your tree. But what exactly are angels? And what do they do when they’re not announcing the birth of our Saviour? Here, this Christmas time, is a quick Q&A about our angelic neighbours:

How many are there?

Lots! They are described as being “innumerable” (Hebrews 12:22) and numbering “thousands and thousands” (Revelation 5:11). Heaven is thronging with angelic beings.... continue reading

And breathe...

Helen Thorne | 19 Dec 2012

I've just written my to-do list. It's festive. But it's long. And, if I'm honest, I'm not quite sure how I'm going to manage to deliver all the cards and presents at the same time as taking part in various services, cooking large quantities of food, holding down my job, going to parties and maintaining some kind of residual sanity. Far from reflecting on a "silent night", I feel more as if I'm living in a whirlwind of activity which threatens to suck me into oblivion.

Which is why I'm very grateful to have stumbled across the post-it note I wrote for myself last Christmas (sandwiched in the middle of the amorphous mass of tinsel that lurks in the decorations box). There's only one word on it. And that word is this:

PRIORITIES... continue reading

On to a Good Thing

Phil Grout | 18 Dec 2012

The On to a Good Thing Christmas Special!

1. Mini-movies for Christmas

Sydney Anglicans share three mini-movies for Christmas.

2. 20 Christmas videos for church services

A collection of Christmas videos from Communicate Jesus.

3. Bethlehemian Rhapsody

A parody telling the Christmas story in a unique way.

4. Scandal, Shame, and Shock at Christmas

Excerpt from Christmas Uncut at The Gospel Coalition.

5. Did You Know?

Free mp3 and sheet music from Emu Music.

6. Christmas Flash Mob

A flash mob performance by Journey of Faith.

7. The Christmas Chord

Our video of the week, a video performed by Dai Woolridge.

8. And finally…

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas from the Good Book Blog team!




Next week, a round-up of the highlights from 2012!


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