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Reliable as Sunrise, Soothing as the Rain (Hosea Part 5)
That’s what it feels like when Hosea turns up, she muses. He is like the spring rain, pattering down on the dry, winter soil, making the trees shiver in anticipation. There’s something special about his presence. He’s not mean or bitter or angry. He is constant and gentle. He’s soothing. He cools her heat. When…
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Clean in, Dirty Out (Hosea Part 4)
It means that when a broken and hurting person is treated nicely, when someone “speaks into their heart,” all sorts of rubbish and detritis comes out.
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Speak To Her Heart (Hosea Part 3)
“Speak to her heart, Hosea,” God says. And Hosea pulls a face. “Her heart? What the hell are you talking about?”
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The Lonely Fool (Hosea Part 2)
Two things are crystal clear. First, Hosea is hurt and angry because his wife is creeping on him. Second, he is NOT going to give up on her.
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Why “Hosea”? (Hosea Part 1)
I imagine that Hosea went to one such club, as horny as any other young man in his early twenties. God spoke in his ear. “Alright, buddy. We’re here to get you a wife.”
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Holding On – Teaching Notes
Holding On would be ideal as a Year 7 text. AC9E7LA05 understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas How to build a compound sentence from simple sentences. How to build a complex sentence from simple sentences. How to go the other way The EFFECT of sentence length AC9E7LA06 understand…
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Manessa’s Story – First glimpses of a sequel
Holding On has an intriguing supporting character called Manessa. When I first started writing, I didn’t really care about her. She was just the ‘mouth breathing troll’ with red hair and very sharp pencils who sat next to Ant, but the further I got into the story, the more I realised Manessa was an important…
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Holding On – Query Letter
Turns out that a query letter is very hard to write. I spent some time at https://queryshark.blogspot.com/and came up with this: Dear XXX I’m seeking representation for Holding On, a 56,000 middle readers reality miniplot drama. What Ant Barnett needs most of all is for the door to his dad’s heart flung open so he…
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Holding On – First Four Chapters
Prologue Cassette Tapes This story happened when haircuts were a different shape and walls were a different colour and computers made funny noises when they connected to the internet. People listened to music with CD players and, to be honest, they were pretty cool. A CD was a plastic disc a little smaller than your…
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Some Interesting Greek Words from Luke 1 and 2.
This short post is just a record of some of the interesting words that are coming out of my Greek reading of the Gospel of Luke. I decided a few weeks ago that I was done with the English, and I was going to fight my way though in the Greek Geneai – Kin I…
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