So in the last few days in my Poverty In The UK blog post series I’ve given you information about why there is poverty and I’ve given you some recent statistics of current poverty levels in the UK, but what now? First and foremost we must pray! That may seem a strange thing to start [...]
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Poverty In The UK #4
Posted: May 11, 2012 in pray, family, love, music, life, religion, Health, friendship, work, blogging, prayer, politics, children, homeless, news, Food, poverty, UKTags: God, matt redman, poverty, United States, David Cameron, Poverty in the United Kingdom, Fuel poverty, Facts and Statistics, United State, Labour, Frank Field, Tony Blair
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Poverty In The UK #2
Posted: May 9, 2012 in blogging, children, family, Food, Health, homeless, life, news, politics, poverty, UK, workTags: Debt, Financial services, poverty, recession, Tax credit, unemployment
Yesterday in the first part of my Poverty In The UK series of blog posts, I gave you the shocking news that there are millions of people living in the UK, as supposedly large economy, who are living in poverty. Today I want to have a look at some of the factors that cause poverty… [...]
Poverty In The UK #1
Posted: May 8, 2012 in children, family, Food, Health, life, news, politics, poverty, UKTags: David Cameron, Development, Facts and Statistics, Fuel poverty, Organisations, poverty, Poverty in the United Kingdom, Standard of living
The UK is the world’s six largest economy, yet 1 in 5 of the UK population live below our official poverty line, meaning that they experience life as a daily struggle. So what exactly is poverty? Most agree that poverty must be understood in relation to typical living standards in society: Individuals, families and groups in [...]
They Don’t Know
Posted: April 26, 2012 in bible, friendship, life, love, music, news, religionTags: Christ, Christianity, God, hillsong, Jesu, Jesus Christ, NLT, Oswald J. Smith, Religion & Spirituality, Second Coming of Christ
We talk of the second coming; but half the world has never heard of the first by Oswald J. Smith Does the above statement concern you? It certainly concerns me! There are so many people out there in this world who have never heard of Jesus…but we can change, we can spread God‘s message of [...]
Some Random Thoughts #3
Posted: April 14, 2012 in books, film, Food, language, life, motoring, news, television, Travel, weather, workTags: Arts, Comedy film, Experimental, Filmmaking, Movie, queue, Television, Traffic light, Trailer
Why do feet smell and noses run? Why do film trailers allows include all the funny bits of comedy films, so that when you watch the film it’s a complete disappointment? Why are the house keys never where you think you left them! When you lose the bookmark from your book, why does it always [...]
The Most Important Event
Posted: April 4, 2012 in cross, Easter, friendship, life, love, music, news, prayer, religionTags: calvary, Christ, Christian, Christianity, crucifixion, Easter, Hank Hanegraaff, Jesus, John, Resurrection of Jesus, stuart townend
John 11:25 (NLT) Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life.[a] Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. Maybe I’ve read it somewhere, or someone has told me, but I seem to think I’ve heard that the resurrection of Jesus has been investigated and examined more times that many other [...]
My Aims 2012 – March Review
Posted: March 31, 2012 in bible, blogging, depression, family, friendship, Health, heart, holiday, housework, life, love, music, news, prayer, religion, sport, tennis, Travel, weather, workTags: course, Eating, February, Finding, God, Health, January, new year, Quiet Time, training, Weight loss
At the start of this year, I shared with you my aims for this year (Welcome to 2012) – not my new year resolutions, but what I aim to achieve this year. Then at the end of both January and February, I gave you a monthly update on how I was doing. So now it’s time [...]
Some Random Thoughts #2
Posted: March 17, 2012 in animals, family, Food, housework, life, news, pets, weatherTags: Butter, cat, Clothing, Cooking, Dairy, home, Humor, ironing, memory, Randomness, Recreation, shopping
When you lay clothes down on the bed for two minutes while you do something else, why does the cat always find them and lie on them? Why do we always think the grass always greener on the other side? When you have a power cut, why is it that the torch you see every [...]
Don’t Judge Me
Posted: March 8, 2012 in blogging, friendship, Health, heart, language, life, love, news, religion, workTags: Business and Economy, colleague, conversation, debate, Decision making, God, judge, lead, look, Personalities, Printing, Relevance, Religion and Spirituality, training
Yesterday I asked Do You Really Know Me?, and then highlighted that we can often know people for many years, but in reality not really know anything about them. When we look at someone, we all (often subconsciously) judge them or put a label on them. Based on how little we often know about people we’ve [...]
My Aims 2012 – February Review
Posted: February 29, 2012 in bible, blogging, family, Food, friendship, Health, holiday, life, love, news, pray, prayer, religion, sport, tennis, TravelTags: bible, Bit, Christianity, Classroom, Eating, exercise, God, Health, holiday, January, new year, New Year Resolution, Quiet Time, Weight loss
At the start of this year, I shared with you my aims for this year (Welcome to 2012) – not my new year resolutions, but what I aim to achieve this year. Then at the End of January I gave you an update on how I was doing, so now that February is just about over, [...]
