Home but not Alone

Yes we’re off in the morning to what has become our annual camping trip to Scotland for a couple of weeks.  If you weren’t around last year you can search in the archives, we expect the holiday to go along much the same lines as it did last year, with just a few exceptions.

1.  We’re all a year older and wiser.

2.  We’re taking company for the first week though there won’t be any competition, what with them being in a motor home and us in a tent

3.  A certain member of our party is hitting 30 weeks in her pregnancy this week and is hoping the air bed is going to be kind, so very kind to her.

4.  I’ll probably up-date on face-book as I’m just getting way too lazy for this blogging

Wish me well………

I’ve just realised it was the beginning of January since I wrote a substantial post about books.  This is probably because my pregnancy brain hasn’t been reading as much over the last few months and my pregnancy body has kept me from the second hand shops

I noticed over at Kim’s the “What’s on your nightstand?” logo and thought that might be fun.  I also thought it would make me update my reading page.

So here’s what’s on my Nightstand – (is it just a UK thing to call it the bed-side-table?).

Ladies of the Reformation by JH Alexander is my Reading Roundabout book for the month of June – I’ve only just started it as I received it early.

Daily Readings from all 4 Gospels by JC Ryle – compiled by Robert Sheehan is what I’m currently using for my devotions.  I picked this book up about a month ago at a second hand book store for 50p.  A friend had been encouraging me to read Ryle’s  commentaries on the gospels for quite some time and I didn’t feel like going through a whole book in one go.   This morning and evening devotional book has been excellent – it has proved to me that Ryle certainly is worth reading.  This book was an absolute steal as it’s in a totally unused condition.

Our ladies conference was last Saturday and we had the priviledge not only of hearing some very thought provoking messages from Pastor Smith (more on that later) but also of having a bookstall there.  I’d been eyeing Women’s Ministry in the local church up for some time now and knew if it was there I would purchase – I’m only just started this book by Susan Hunt and Ligon Duncan but so far I’m glad I bought it.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss’s Surrender is also on there as the ladies Bible Study group who meet once a month are almost completed studying this book.  Excellent for use in group study this book has opened up the many different aspects of surrendering your life completely to Christ.  A very challenging book which could also be used for private study.

So know you’ve seen and know what’s on my Night Stand – what’s on yours?

that most Christian Bloggers are going to be linking to this video.  

Naomi  has already done so but incase there are any readers here who don’t read Naomi’s blog or the Girl Talk blog, please, please, please take the time to watch this video.

As Carolyn Mahaney says over at the girl Talk blog if you just listen to the first 5 minutes you  will listen to the remainder.

I’m just messing round with the background to get something that suits me.  If you’re looking for the recipe link pages or the reading pages they are on the side bar now instead of at the top