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AWARD WINNERS TO BE REVEALED
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THERE may be joy for Les Misérables, a runaway win for Argo, or Life of Pi could prove to be a calculated success at the British Academy Film Awards tomorrow (Sunday 10 February).
Along with Zero Dark Thirty and Lincoln, those are the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) nominations in the Best Film category this year. The question for the audience at the Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden – and the millions watching on BBC One – is which film will win and which will be left reeling when they fail to pick up the iconic bronze mask.
The decision on what flick will make the final cut was made by the 6,500 Bafta film industry members who voted for their favourite movie. For the winning
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THE NHS and creative agency Kore are urging churches to help increase the number of blood and organ donors in the UK.
The Flesh and Blood campaign aims to highlight the need for more donors and encourage donation as a way of personal giving within congregations. Visitors to the campaign’s website are urged to sign up to give blood, join the organ donor register, make a date to give blood and agree to raise awareness of the issue.
Medical director of National Health Service Blood and Transplant Lorna Williamson says: ‘All major faith groups support donation in the spirit of giving and we’re excited to explore this in more detail by working within the Christian Church. By raising awareness
among its members and community about the daily need for blood transfusions and organ transplants across the NHS, we hope to banish myths, educate people and encourage blood and organ donation.’
The campaign – which is being run in association with several denominations, including The Salvation Army – marks the first time the NHS has worked alongside the Church on a national initiative of this kind.
For more information visit fleshandblood.org
CHURCH leaders have written to MPs and MEPs urging all political parties to address the issue of tax injustice.
To mark the end of Poverty and Homelessness Action Week, church leaders in West Yorkshire wrote letters to their MPs and MEPs, demanding political action be taken against tax-dodging. The 14 signatories – who wrote from churches which provide night shel-ters and food kitchens for homeless people – point-ed out that tax avoidance keeps some people poor while others get richer.
The Bishop of Pontefract, the Right Rev Tony Robinson, said: ‘Tax avoidance denies help to the poorest and most vul-nerable people both here in the UK and in developing countries. This is morally unacceptable.’
The letters also pushed for tax avoidance loop-holes to be closed, and for measures to be intro-duced which would require tax havens to share information automatically with other countries about money flowing through them.
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CHURCHES TACKLE TAX INJUSTICE CHRISTIAN Solidarity Worldwide has reported that a
convert to Christianity with dual United States and Iranian nationality has been sentenced to eight years in prison for ‘actions against the national security of Iran’.
According to the organisation, the charges against Mr Saeed Abedinigalangashi concern the planting of house churches which authorities believe ‘intend to undermine national security’.
Mr Abedinigalangashi became a Christian in 2000 and was arrested in September 2012 while visiting family in Iran.
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FORMER Emmerdale star Tom Lister is to cycle across Europe to raise money for Hope for Justice, an anti-human trafficking charity.
The actor – who is a Christian – will cycle 2,500km, covering six European countries, over 20 days as part of the Zoe Challenge. The challenge is named after one of the first girls to be rescued by the charity.
Tom says: ‘It’s devastating to know this kind of abuse is happening around us. We’ve all got a part to play in ending it. For me, as a man of faith, that means going all out for a charity I’m passionate about and jumping on my bike to raise money for their frontline work.’
The Zoe Challenge is scheduled to begin in May.
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For the four films which do not win, though, all is not lost. All the Bafta hopefuls have also been nominated for the Best Film Oscar at the Academy Awards in a fortnight’s time.
That will mean another walk down the red carpet – this time in Hollywood itself – for the producers, actors and crew, all of them hoping that success for their film is in the can.
But some will leave both award ceremonies disappointed, as other movies receive the accolades they had hoped for. Despite their best efforts, their fellow professionals will have overlooked them in favour of someone else.
None of us wants to be over-looked. Whatever we may do, if we have done our best, we appreciate it when other people acknowledge our efforts.
We may hope for recog-nition in our workplace, or when we have made an extra effort to be good to our friends and families. And it hurts if what we have done is not appreciated or – worse still – is criticised.
When that happens we can easily become discouraged and want to give up – but help is at hand.
Millions of people have received support and encour-
film-makers, receiving the award means the quality of their work has been recognised by experts.
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None of us wants to be overlooked
agement from God. He can give us hope and strength, even when it seems no one else is supporting us.
One Bible writer puts it like this: ‘Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint’ (Isaiah 40:31 New International Version).
God’s offer is available to everyone. If our past disap-pointments have been caused by our own bad decisions, wrong-doing or shortcomings, God will forgive us and help us start again if we ask him to.
We can hand over to him the times when we have felt disap-pointed and rejected. Then, by following him, God will give us new hope for the future and strength to carry on.
We do not have to feel dis-couraged. By sending Jesus to save the world, God has focused his love on us.
LIMELIGHT: Actors Russell Crowe (above, ‘Les Misérables’) Suraj Sharma (top left, ‘Life of Pi’), Daniel Day-Lewis (top right, ‘Lincoln’) get red-carpet treatment at their respective film premieres
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HE hopes his new television series
will be the key to help peo-ple enjoy music from across the centuries – Bach as well as the Beatles, medieval chant as well as modern chart music.
‘My view is that there’s nothing particularly difficult about music or composers,’ says the writer and pre-senter of Howard Goodall’s Story of Music, ‘but some people find the terminology that surrounds music off-putting. I want to explain why things sound the way they sound, so that people can enjoy music more and get to know more of it.’
Howard takes advantage of a major opportunity offered by the medium of television.
‘Whenever a new technique, idea or sound comes along in the story,’ he says, ‘I don’t just give it a name, I explain what it is and demonstrate how it sounds.’
Looking back in time, Howard sees that music has often been tied up with religion.
‘We know that religious ritual was accompanied by music in ancient Egypt, because of pictures from those times – but we don’t know what the music would have sounded like.
‘We know that Solomon set up a choir to sing chant in the Temple in Jerusalem, although again we don’t know how it sounded.’
What is known, however, is that through the centuries, ideas about rhythm and harmony were pioneered in church music.
Although ignoring many labels such as ‘baroque’ or ‘Romantic’, Howard does make use of the tags of ‘sacred’ and ‘secular’ to refer to two kinds of music – though he explains that they do not represent entirely sepa-rate worlds. He says that ‘most compos-ers whose names we know before 1650 are people who worked for the Church or in churches because that was the way of making a living.
‘But composers might take a secular folk tune and turn it into a hymn. And then later on, the hymn tune would find
HOWARD GOODALL tells Philip Halcrow why there is something miraculous about music
Howard demonstrates the development of music in his TV series
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itself back in a piece of secular music.‘That process has gone on to this day.
Paul Simon’s “American Tune” from 1970 is a pop song based on a Bach cho-rale, “O Sacred Head Sore Wounded” – a hymn that had started out as a popular folk song before Martin Luther import-ed it into the chorale book.
‘It’s very hard to make music stay in a pigeonhole. A great tune is not going to sit still.’
During our conversation, Howard repeats the name of
Bach often. He speaks of the compos-er’s ability to wrap up singable hymn tunes in complex arrangements that evoked ‘a sense of the miraculous and inexpress-ible’. Bach’s works were ‘an attempt to edge towards some understanding of the mystery that he believed in’.
Howard him-self has written music with a reli-gious tone – not only the theme tune to the TV sit-com The Vicar of Dibley, which is sung by choirs as a straight rework-ing of Psalm 23, but also Eternal Light: A Requiem and arrangements of carols. Can there be something inherently divine about music?
‘I think the best word to describe what it’s like to be a composer is “gift”,’ he says. ‘When I look at a painting, a poem or a text, I don’t have to look at it for very long before the music for it is in my head, fully formed.
‘When I set about writing an ora-
torio to celebrate the 400th anniver-sary of the King James Bible, I typed out ten sections of text from Genesis to Revelation. I simply looked at the words on the page and the music for them came into my head as if it were on a CD.
‘If you have that gift, it’s quite hard not to think that there’s something pretty extraordinary about it. It may be a coming together of chemicals, history and my background and genes. I don’t know, and I’m not sure I’ll ever know. But it is miraculous – that’s the word I would use – to be on the receiving end of it.
‘So I find writing sacred music, which is also trying to grapple with a mystery and miracles, a natural fit.
‘Bach believed every note he wrote was to do with God. While there may not be many people today as passionate
about that as Bach, I think a lot of com-posers of all faiths and none would say there’s something slightly miraculous about the whole process. And it does imply that there’s something else other than us. There may be a scientific explanation for that – I don’t know and I don’t really want to analyse it too much.
‘But I love writ-ing sacred music. When a choir per-forms a new piece of mine in a church or a cathedral, it’s very different from
if that first performance is in a concert hall. Something special takes place. I don’t know how to describe it, but it is a miraculous thing.’
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Bach believed every note he wrote was to do with God. I think a lot of composers would say there’s something slightly miraculous about the whole process
The next episode of Howard Goodall’s Story of Music is scheduled to be broadcast on BBC Two today (Saturday 9 February)
DAILY TELEGRAPH reporter Joe Shute joined an 87-year-old Street Pastor from Lancashire as she patrolled the streets on one of her shifts. He concluded that Mary Pickles’s sympathy and distribution of jelly babies to ‘raucous’ people ‘work wonders’.
Mr Shute reported on some of the scenes he witnessed with the Street Pastor team. He added: ‘[Mary] says her work as a Street Pastor has made her “unshockable”, but she and her fellow pas-tors refuse to judge as they walk the streets. Nor do they ever discuss religion unless asked.’
According to the article, Mary – known as ‘Mother Teresa of Burnley’ – has been a Street Pastor since 2009. Between 11 pm and 3 am, she and a team of volunteers patrol the town centre, handing out flip-flops to women who can’t
walk in their heels, order-ing taxis home for vulnera-ble people and stepping in to dissolve any fights.
The Street Pastor ini-tiative started in London ten years ago and today runs in more than 200 locations.
THE Guardian reported on a church in Sussex which has produced a CD containing 30 minutes of recorded silence.
According to the paper, the recording from St Peter’s Church, East Blatchington ‘sold out of its first pressing’, and orders have been arriving from places as far away as Ghana.
Congregation member Ronald Byng suggested that the CD was proving a success because ‘in this day and age, everybody seems to live busier, noisier lives – people sometimes like to sit down and just have a bit of peace and quiet for a little while’.
The Rev Canon Dr Andrew Mayes also spoke in favour of the album, adding that the church building ‘is an 800-year-old sacred space with a wonderful quality of silence’.
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FOR some people, a housing crisis is when the rise in value of their West Country holiday cottage hasn’t kept pace with inflation. For homebuyers on a TV property show, it is having to choose between the sun-kissed villa in Spain and the rose cottage in the Lakes. However, the real housing crisis is when the bottom rung of the property ladder becomes increasingly elusive.
According to Shelter, a generation is being caught in the ‘rent trap’. The housing charity’s Rent Trap report reveals that rents in England are rising by some £300 a year. With average wages remaining static, many people are left unable to save enough for a deposit on a first-time property. The report also notes that one in seven local authority rents rose by more than £500 in a year and that six areas saw annual rent rises of more than £1,500. As a result, 58 per cent of renters are unable to save anything at all.
FiascoSince the banking fiasco, first-time
mortgages have been harder to come by and borrowers are required to find larger deposits. The London Evening Standard reports that ‘the average [deposit] for first-time buyers [is] predicted to top £100,000 by 2020’.
If that proves to be so, the emotional, physical and financial security of affordable housing will be denied to thousands of young people.
The social rented sector is just as bleak. In April, the ‘bedroom tax’ will kick in for those on housing benefit. Any claimant of working age who is thought to be underoccupying a property may be charged for the ‘spare’ space.
There is an element of justice here. Where a single person occupies a family house, then – with families suffering in B&B accommodation – that person should be downsized.
But while the Government wants to trim the £23 billion housing benefit budget, there is a national shortage of – and an eight-year waiting list for – smaller properties.
And that’s a national disgrace.
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SPOOKS actor David Oyelowo says his Christian faith influences the roles he chooses to play.
The star – who is due to appear in the new Channel 4 drama Complicit later this year – admits that he tends to ‘stay away from anything that I deem to be a celebration of the dark side’.
David goes on to say: ‘I by no means feel like everything I do has to be Christo-centric … but from a moral compass point of view, there are pieces that I feel are not edifying to the human spirit that I will therefore stay away from.
‘At other times, I may be indecisive about doing a role, and prayer, for me, helps me in those decisions.’
THE Rev Richard Coles explores the idea of sin and atonement across time and the world in Radio 3’s Sunday Feature: The Idea of Sin tomorrow (10 February 5.45 pm).
In this first of three programmes, the former Communards singer analyses what
is meant by sin and its origins. He travels to Italy to discuss some of the
world’s most graphic illustrations of the consequences of sin, taking in Florence’s Baptistery and Giotto’s Last
Judgment painting in Padua.
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cost of damage caused by wintry weather, premiums could go up in the event of a claim.
Inside the home there can also be problems. There’s nothing worse than living in a freezing house with no hot water while you wait for a problem to be fixed.
All this can be avoided by preparing your home for the
wintry weather.As a general rule, cold-
storage tanks, including central heating expansion tanks, and all water pipes, including overflows, should be insulated.
Do not insulate the loft floor under the water tank, as heat coming up from the area below should help prevent the
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Frozen water pipes: top tips
Lifestyle
Make sure you know where the water mains valve and header tank are and that you can turn them on and off in case a pipe bursts or freezes.
Check that any pipes or tanks in lofts and any unheated areas are properly insulated.
If you are going to be away from home overnight or for a few days, keep the central heating on at a low temperature.
If you think your pipes are frozen, turn off the water at the mains valve and the header tank to cut down the amount of water that could escape if a pipe bursts.
Thaw a frozen pipe gently, with a low steady heat such as a hot-water bottle or hair-dryer and not a naked flame. Have something ready to catch water in case the pipe bursts.
Keep the telephone number of a plumber readily available in case of emergencies.
Check that your home and contents insurance policy covers not just the pipes, but also any damage to furniture or flooring caused by burst water pipes.
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tank from freezing. The recommended
thickness of tank and pipe insulation is at least 75mm, and can be obtained at any good DIY store.
If a frozen pipe bursts, the first thing to do is switch off the stopcocks supplying water to the home.
Most homes have two stopcocks. The main one, which supplies drinking water from the rising main, is usually found in the kitchen, beside or under the sink.
The stopcock for the storage tank, which feeds the
hot-water tank and bath, is usually found in the bathroom or near the hot-water tank.
You should also make sure that you switch off the central heating to reduce water flow.
Open all taps to drain the system as soon as you can, to ensure as little damage as possible.
If possible, collect all water coming from the burst in containers.
Turn electricity off at the mains if any sockets or appliances have been affected by water coming from the burst pipe.
ACCORDING to insurers, around a third of all insurance claims relate to the effects of cold or bad weather. These include storm damage, falling trees, floods and burst pipes. Winter is the busiest time of the year for claims and while an insurance company may well pay out for the
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KEVIN WASHBURN and Penny Lyon have had their fair share
of success. But Kevin, former owner of a large computing business, and Penny, once a marketing director of a design company, are now embarked on different ventures. Six years ago, they opened their home and mouths to intro-duce something different to the area around Painswick, Gloucestershire – a gospel choir.
‘I am really excited about get-ting people singing,’ smiles Penny. ‘In my younger days, I remember seeing the London Community Gospel Choir. I was so inspired by what they did.
‘Rural church-life can be limited. We had a lovely curate at our church who was very dynamic, but the music was a struggle. The organist didn’t play anything that remotely resembled a modern worship song.
‘I became conscious there were lots of people around me who loved sing-ing and were very musical but didn’t have an outlet, so I eventually asked our curate how she would feel if we had a go at starting a gospel choir. She said go for it. So we put an ad in the church newsletter, which read: Think Whoopi Goldberg, think purple cassocks and you have got something towards the right idea.’
When Penny and Kevin decided they were going to invite potential choir members to their home, 25 peo-ple showed up. The choir grew and more people began to join. Today, the Beacon Gospel Choir has more than 40 members.
‘After a while, I thought: “OK, we’re getting quite good now. I wonder if we ought to start audi-tioning,’ says Penny.
‘But I remember God dealing with me on that when I went to church one night and a friend came to me ask-ing for advice. Her daughter was very
hurt after being kicked out of the school choir, and she asked me what I thought she should do. Kevin and I then made a commitment that no matter how badly people thought they sang, we would give the time to help them.
‘I’ll always ask the audience: “How many people here think
they can’t sing?” There will always be people putting their hands up. I tell them that if they can speak, they can sing – it is as simple as that. It takes practice but it can be done.’
Penny tends to head up the vocal
training while Kevin ‘waves his arms around’ to conduct the choir. Kevin also takes on more of a technical role with the music in the couple’s record-ing studio.
The choir attracts people from all walks of life and of all ages. It has also become a support for those who take part.
‘The choir has helped my relation-ship with God,’ says Penny. ‘When I first started it up, I think I was motivated by selfishness. I wanted to find an outlet to worship God the way I wanted to.
‘But then I began to realise what the choir could do for other people. I love the way singing together in a group brings healing to people. The choir has helped one woman get her confi-dence back after her husband had left her. Another had grown up being told she couldn’t sing. Now she’s singing in the choir and experiencing a new lease of life. Being able to give someone a new opportunity, whatever their age, is thrilling.’
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I tell people that if they can speak, they can sing. It is as simple as that. It takes practice but it can be done
making an impact on its audiences.‘Our choir has a way of worshipping
where people can meet God in a more exciting way,’ Penny explains. ‘We were singing at one service where there was a blind man, who had been taken to church by his wife. The following day, he was sitting in his office and suddenly thought that his desk was untidy. He sat there thinking: “I really need to clean my desk.” It was then he realised that he could see. His wife came home from shopping. He met her at the front door and told her: “You look lovely today.” The man had met God and the choir was blessed to have been a small part of it. It was absolutely amazing.
‘The best thing about running this choir is that you are in a dusty old church that has not seen much excite-ment for hundreds of years, and sudden-ly there are people standing in the pews, dancing, worshipping God and raising the roof. It is fantastic.’
Kevin says the choir has made him focus more on his purpose in life. He used to work in computing and helped bring the internet to the UK. In 2000, he sold his business and built a recording studio at home.
‘It was good for me when music recording became computerised,’ he says, ‘because a studio is now just a bunch of computers rather than a huge mixing desk. I started playing guitar when I was 15 years old, so I’ve been into music for a long time.’
As well as writing music and running the choir, Kevin and
Penny look after 85 acres of land. They offer their home to people for away days and plan to open their studio as a place where Christian musicians can record.
‘We realise God has favoured us with living in this amazing area,’ says Penny. ‘But actually he plans for every-body to be surrounded by his creation. He didn’t plan for anyone to live in hor-rific places.’
‘When I think of the Garden of Eden I picture Heaven to be just like it.’
Penny’s thoughts on Heaven are what brought about the song ‘The Garden’, a song from the couple’s debut album of the same title. Together, the duo go by the name of Out of the Ashes.
Kevin explains how their double act started.
‘We were away in France and I had my guitar with me,’ he says. ‘I came up with some music and then Penny put lyrics to it.
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God turns the ashes of the tough times into gold
After a while, we had a portfolio of songs. We thought we would like to publish some of them. We got talking to someone from Resound Media and he said he’d like to record us.
‘Our name, Out of the Ashes, comes from our experiences,’ says Penny. ‘God turns the ashes of the
tough times into gold.‘There’s one song on our album
called “Life Goes On”. Last summer, I suffered a miscarriage. I felt that God had given me a huge gift shortly fol-lowed by a “What was that? Why waste the emotional energy?”
‘I was angry, really hurt and con-fused. I remember going for a bath and just sitting and praying. Then God gave me a picture in my mind of the disciples, who followed Christ and really got to know him, and saw the miracles he performed. When he was being crucified they were probably waiting for a miracle that would get him off the cross. That didn’t happen.
‘How bereft and lost they must have felt! God related this to me and said that just as the disciples didn’t see the bigger picture, I also couldn’t. But he told me to trust him.’
The couple’s album The Garden was released last November. It is a mix of soul, jazz, African spirituals and bluegrass. All the songs have a biblical theme.
With two musical ventures under their
belt, Penny and Kevin don’t intend on stopping any time soon. The Beacon Gospel Choir is looking to do gigs fur-ther afield. As Out of the Ashes, Penny and Kevin plan on doing coffee-shop gigs around the country and raising scratch choirs.
‘The idea is to send some backing tracks in advance, so small groups and choirs can rehearse. Then we can all meet up for an afternoon workshop and put on a gospel concert in the evening,’ says Penny.
‘What would really be great is if some of those choirs continue singing after we have gone. We’d support them by giving them further material. We just want to get people singing.’
For more information visit out-of-the-ashes.com or yourchurchevent.com
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QUICK CROSSWORDACROSS: 1 Guard. 5 Table. 8 Oomph. 9 Below.
10 Upset. 11 Dozen. 12 Tied. 15 Redeem. 17 Scour. 18 Menace. 20 Tact. 25 Price. 26 Inset. 27 Needs. 28 Relic. 29 Cease. 30 Hides.
DOWN: 1 Goblet. 2 Allege. 3 Dowdy. 4 Amaze. 5 Thunder. 6 Beside. 7 Esteem. 13 Ire. 14 Ice. 15 Rue. 16 Etc. 17 Sceptre. 18 Maniac. 19 Nausea. 21 Append. 22 Thesis. 23 Silly. 24 Bench.
QUICK QUIZ1 A Tale of Two Cities. 2 A butterfly. 3 Handel.
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1. Madame Defarge appears in which novel by Charles Dickens?
2. What kind of creature is a red admiral?
3. Who composed the oratorio Messiah?
4. What is the medical name for the thigh bone?
5. What is the tallest mountain in Africa?
6. What colour is the flower of the shamrock?
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COMPETITION WINNERSTHE winners of the Christmas Story: The Brick Bible for Kids book competition are K. Bamblett of Tonbridge and J. Gowing of Plymouth.
Brendan Powell Smith created The Brick Bible.
LOVE may be a ‘many-splendoured thing’, but it doesn’t come cheap these days. No sooner is Christmas over than we are hit by the next big commercial event on the calendar – St Valentine’s Day.
Thanks to the saint – thought to be a third-century priest martyred in Rome – 14 February is now firmly associated with the celebration of love. Each year millions of us send cards to mark the special day, as it is difficult to ignore the advertising implications saying that our beloved deserves the best.
According to Shakespeare, ‘the course of true love never did run smooth’. And supporting his point, the Bible’s many stories on the subject include love at first sight, jealous love, thwarted love and love triangles.
Take the story of Jacob and Rachel (Genesis 29). Jacob had to work seven years to win her father’s blessing, and even when the time was up, there were further complications before they eventually married.
Kings aren’t immune to love either. King David fell in love with a stunningly beautiful woman he saw bathing, and wanted her for his own. Unfortunately, Bathsheba was already married to one of his soldiers. That didn’t stop David; he deliberately had her husband sent to the front line of a fierce battle to be killed.
David then brought Bathsheba to his palace as one of his wives. But his actions met with God’s strong disapproval and their love-child died (2 Samuel 11 and 12).
The Bible also sets standards for our relationships. Often read at weddings, one of its most famous passages – sometimes called ‘the love chapter’ – is 1 Corinthians 13.
‘Love’, it says, ‘isn’t always “me first,” doesn’t fly off the handle, doesn’t keep score of the sins of others’ (verse 5 The Message).
For many of us, such a definition
of love leaves plenty of room for improvement. That’s where the Bible’s greatest love story comes in. God loved humankind so much that he sent his Son to die, so we can live in his love through time and eternity.
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In this series, ROSEMARY DAWSON looks at aspects of love found in 1 Corinthians 13:4–8
Love is…COSTLY
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excited. However, my taste in romantic
gestures has changed over the years. I now appreciate an unexpected bunch of flowers or special perfume. It is also nice to receive a Valentine’s card with a little more love and thought put into the presentation.
Everyone needs to be loved and cherished, and to be told they are. And being loved doesn’t have to mean in the romantic sense. Experiencing the love of family or close friends is just as valuable.
But love works two ways. Not
only do we need to receive love, we need to give it. When we show love towards others, we help them to feel special, which in turn is uplifting for us.
The greatest love message of all time is written in the Bible. One single verse demonstrates the extent of God’s powerful
love for our sinful world.
John’s Gospel says: ‘God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
of family or s valuable. ways. Not
g gall time is written in the Bible. Onesingle verse demonstrates theextent of God’s powerful
love for our sinful world.
John’s Gospel says: ‘God so loved the world that he gave his one andonly Son,
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that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life’ (3:16 New International Version).
The message is simple. God’s love for us is unconditional. No ifs or buts. His love is such that when we get things wrong, God is willing to forgive us and help us put things right. His love – if we accept it – makes it possible for us to overcome death and spend eternity with him in Heaven.
What greater love is there than that?
by BARBARA LYNE
DO you remember the first Valentine’s card or gift you ever received? I do. When I was 11 years old I was given a handwritten verse on a scruffy piece of a school exercise book. It read:
My darling dearest ducky, I love you wet or mucky.Come into my armsYou bundle of charmsAnd stick to me like putty!This endearing message was left folded up
in my school desk. I remember being quite
Method:To make the pancakes, place the flour and salt in a bowl
and make a hollow in the centre. Use a whisk to mix in the eggs. Add in the milk and water a little at a time, whisking continually until you are left with a smooth batter.
Heat a frying pan until it is very hot, then lower the temperature to a medium heat. Add the butter and allow to melt. Pour the pancake batter into the pan and fry. When the base is cooked, turn the pancake over to cook the other side. The pancake should turn a light golden colour.
Cover each pancake with greaseproof paper and place on a plate. Put the plate on top of a saucepan containing 250ml boiling water. This
I’M Michael Darracott. I have been an executive chef in several large establishments in charge of cooking for 200-plus people. I have also written a number of books. It gives me great pleasure to offer my recipes in The War Cry.
I invite readers to send in recipe ideas, to be considered for publication here. I would also like to offer help with any cooking-related problems you have. So send in your question and, if it is selected, an answer will be published on this page.
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Ingredients:
For the pancakes
120g plain flour, sifted
Pinch of salt
2 large eggs, beaten
210ml milk, mixed with 80ml water
55g unsalted butter
For the topping
Juice of 1 large lemon
Sugar
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Classic pancakes with sugar and lemon
Ingredients:For the filling450g strawberries 2 medium cooking apples, peeled,
cored and diced60ml waterJuice and zest of ½ lemon3tbsp caster sugarGranulated sugar2tsp cornflour
Strawberry and apple pancakes
Method:Make the pancakes as directed in the
accompanying recipe. Set aside 3 strawberries, then dice the
rest. Place them in a saucepan along with the apple pieces, water, lemon juice and zest and caster sugar. Simmer until softened, then bring to the boil. Add the cornflour and stir until the mixture thickens.
Fill each pancake with the fruit mixture then fold up. Decorate with the reserved strawberries and granulated sugar before serving.
Serves 6
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Tuesday (12 February) is Shrove Tuesday, so why not try these pancake recipes
will keep the pancakes warm while you make the rest of the batch.
To serve, squirt each pancake with lemon juice and sprinkle sugar over the top.
Serves 6
While, generally, tall men are gentle giants by nature (despite childhood taunting of ‘lofty’, ‘beanpole’ and ‘what’s the weath-er like up there?’) there is a sense that they will never enjoy life the way most people do. They may grace a basketball court, but they seldom look good on the dance-floor, and – once they reach the rare altitude of 6ft 6in – never ever get to dance (or hug) cheek to cheek with a woman. No wonder they feel left out!
Thankfully, God does not overlook tall people. Whatever our body shape – whatever limitations or advantages we have to deal with – none of us
outgrows the love of our Creator. Nobody needs to feel left out.
Whatever we have done – what-ever we have had done to us – God is ready to forgive all who put their trust in his Son, Jesus. When we do, we know life in all its fullness. That’s the gospel truth, not a tall story.
IT’S big hugs all round next Monday, because 11 February is Hug a Tall Person Day. The lofty idea is backed by a Facebook campaign. Organisers say that the spe-cial day is ‘for all those tall people [6ft for men; 5ft 10in for women] who feel left out and never get hugs because they’re too tall. We need one day a year when we get hugs no matter what.’
While business often promotes tall people to senior leadership, life can be tough at the top. Being a tall bloke means you can’t easily stand upright on buses or Tube trains. Sitting comfortably is a bonus. Tall people have to squeeze themselves into car, train, plane and theatre seats. Shirts seldom stay tucked in and there’s often a gap between jumper bottom and trouser top. Backache can be a big problem.
Tall people are often asked to reach things off top supermarket shelves by little old ladies. They are pleased to oblige but find that too much of life is arranged below waist-height. They struggle to pick things from the back of the bottom shelves or get the saucepans from under the sink.
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*Nigel Bovey is 6ft 6in tall
of life is arranged below waist-height
