Proverbs and sayings

The first 18 years of my life I lived in the same street with my parents. However, I spent the first five years in a different house. Until ...

Several of my uncles were lorry drivers and bus drivers. They tended torefer to their lorries as wagons, a  northern rather than a Welsh exp...

Calennig, n. A New Year's gift. Also: the practice or custom observed on the morning of New Year's Day, usually by children, of goin...

Izzard (zed) Blizzard (severe snowstorm) Dizzard (foolish person) Gizzard (part of a bird's stomach) Lizard (reptile) Nizzard (someone f...

There was a news article recently about mudlarks. It got me thinking of these various terms. Beachcomber (someone who  walks along a beach l...

Rather than Moses, Aaron or a Levite - all sinners, all men with weaknesses and subject to death - it is God manifest in the flesh who minis...

1. Tied the knot 2. Entered wedlock 3. Entered the marriage bond 4. Entered into marital union 5. Became yoked together 6. Entered the conju...

It is not that Christ ceases to act for his people in heaven. No, their forerunner has passed into the heavens to serve them and do them goo...

Psalm 110 also speaks of the Father making the Son's enemies a footstool for him. This is again a picture. A footstool is a piece of fu...

Obviously we are not to understand God's “right hand” literally. As Augustine points out, that would mean the Father was on Christ's...