Sometimes when all is well, life has a nasty habit of jumping up and kicking one in a painful part of one's anatomy. The comfort and familiarity of the commonplace gives way to other imperatives and things are never quite the same again. Like a blind man in a dark room, looking for a black hat which is not there, Carnegie Browne began the pointless quest for his lost career. Sidelined in his early forties from his high flying financial services job, he also faces the prospect of divorce and estrangement from his children. Alas it never rains but what it pours and his desperate efforts to...

Jesus himself said that there was no one on earth greater than John the Baptist. Yet, he said, even the least in the Kingdom of God was greater than John This little play brings to life the events of John's birth, life and death.

I hope this small book will help you see how the Cross can be a positive force in you life today. I urge you to read it in conjunction with my other book What The Church Won't Tell You About Healing. Although there may be a little repetition it does go into much greater depth about the healing aspect of the Cross. I have no particular qualifications for writing this book other than being an imperfect follower of Christ and these thoughts and opinions are purely my own and I hope God's. I may have been hard in this book on my own Roman Catholic Church but I feel I have the right to express my...

Sometimes when all is well, life has a nasty habit of jumping up and kicking one in a painful part of one's anatomy. The comfort and familiarity of the commonplace gives way to other imperatives and things are never quite the same again. Like a blind man in a dark room, looking for a black hat which is not there, Carnegie Browne began the pointless quest for his lost career. Sidelined in his early forties from his high flying financial services job, he also faces the prospect of divorce and estrangement from his children. Alas it never rains but what it pours and his desperate efforts to...

All teachers dread "the call," the inevitable visit from Her Majesty's School Inspectorate. Everyone believes in raising school standards but schools have been tested to destruction in recent years. Teachers are becoming disillusioned and instead of helping to raise standards they have taken their eye off the ball in trying to second guess what Ofsted requirements are: Safeguarding, boys' falling standards, girls' falling standards, behaviour; whatever is the flavour of the month. Dave Storey is a bog standard, flawed but decent Year 6 teacher and deputy head fighting to keep his head above...

Welcome boys and girls (and any grown ups) and thank you for choosing to read my book about Bede of Jarrow. Some people call him Saint Bede but more about that later. This a fictional account of his life as a young boy growing up in the kingdom of Northumbria now Tyne and Wear. It is my idea of what could have happened to a young person growing up in a land where very few people could read and write and life was hard. Some of the things I have described could not possibly have happened as the thing I have described had not been invented or discovered. This is known as an anachronism or...

Most people have some degree of faith and many have some indistinct faith in some sort of supernatural life. You just have to think about the number of films and dramas that concern themselves with the supernatural. In this small book I will seek to explore what the revealed Word of God tells us about faith and how it can be a real help in our own personal lives. If you do not belong to a church then I hope this will be an entry point to your faith journey. If you do belong to a church then prepare to be challenged

I always preface these books by stating that I have no particular qualifications for writing them. Whilst true I still feel that I have a worthwhile contribution to make to the debate. Whether we like it or not we will all require God's mercy at some point during our lives or at death as we stand before the throne of God. All the nay sayers and unbelievers will have bend the knee and proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God. It does not say that they will do it willingly but do it they will. Instead of hoping for a merciful judgement after death, read this book and see how you...

I always preface these books by stating that I have no particular qualifications for writing them. Whilst true, I still feel that I have a worthwhile contribution to make to the debate. It is a fine thing to acknowledge your utter worthlessness before the great and almighty God and then be open to His immeasurable and totally unmerited grace. I urge you then to read this book and see how you too can appropriate this grace in your life now.

Prayer is an important part of every Christian's life. The Church has been the custodian of prayer and mediates its implementation to its followers. However I believe its has failed to impart the full power of prayer and has robbed it of its impact in many ways, by rationalisation and compromise with every passing whim of modern life. I hope that this small book will show you how prayer can have a tangible effect on your everyday life. I will try and demonstrate how you can build a personal relationship with God. I preface these small books by saying that I have no particular qualifications...