Little Grey Mouse hoped to become a famous detective.  One day, hundreds of people arrived in the  town where he lived, and the biggest brightest star ever, shone in the sky.  Here was a mystery which needed solving, and Little Grey Mouse was the mouse for the job!

Little Grey Mouse Detective

Over two thousand years ago, there lived a mouse called Little Grey Mouse.  He had always dreamed of becoming a famous detective, but in those days, hardly anyone had heard of him.  Then one day, something happened which changed his life forever.  After that day, he hoped that one day, everyone, both mice and men, might know about it too.

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Constance and Lily, two women who could not have been more different if they’d tried. They were strangers brought together, who found they had more in common than either realised. Both were single; both lived lonely, fearful lives; both had placed their trust in the wrong people. Yet for both of them, that chance meeting would change their lives.

Redemption

“Jesus loves you,” Constance whispered as she shakily offered a tract to a lean man in a business suit. He brushed past her almost knocking her off balance in the process. Constance swallowed hard. “Jesus loves you,” she whispered again to a young mother who was negotiating a twin pushchair around the busy shoppers. Even the babies ignored her.

Constance glanced back at the rest of her church group dotted along the street, several of whom were engaged in conversation with shoppers. They seemed to be faring better than her. How she hated this!

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Despite living in an old run-down caravan and dressing shabbily, Smiley was always smiling – hence his nickname. He never seemed to have any worries either. People often wondered why he always carried a plastic shopping bag with him wherever he went, and what it contained. So how did Smiley strengthen my faith?

Smiley’s Secret

Everyone in the village had heard of Smiley. He was always shabbily dressed and down-at-heel, but, give him his due, he was always clean shaven. They had given him the nick-name, ‘Smiley’, because despite his apparently poor circumstances, he was always smiling.

Smiley lived in an old caravan with his dog, Poppet, seemingly without a worry in the world. “Why should I worry about anything?” he would say. “My best friend will protect me.”

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When the main character finally reaches the end of himself, he has a life-changing encounter with Jesus, who gives his life fresh meaning and purpose.

The Carpenter

Morose and miserable. Dismal and discontented. All wrapped up in self-pity and tied with a bow of bitterness.

Not quite the outlook you would expect from a former successful businessman, but that’s what happens when life throws you a curveball. I’d had everything a man could want: wealth, a beautiful house, a loving family. I hadn’t counted on old age robbing me of everything, including my self-respect. Having lost all enjoyment of life, gloom and misery had become my faithful companions. I’d given up living a long time ago. And to make it worse, nobody cared.

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Robin Redbreast’s great, great, great, however many greats…Grandad, had been in Bethlehem that very first Christmas. Robin Redbreast enjoyed sharing the story his family had passed down to him about the birth of baby Jesus. And he had to make sure that Simon Scarecrow knew how very special Christmas was, too.

The First Christmas According to Robin Redbreast

Simon Scarecrow awoke to the sound of church bells ringing out loudly.  He yawned, stretched his arms out even wider, and then shook the snow from off his rather tatty straw hat.

“Just when I had decided to have a sleep-in, or perhaps I should say a sleep-out.” He sighed.

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Another version of the second coming of Christ, in the same genre as Jerome K Jerome, The Passing of the Third Floor Back. As one reader said it makes the hair stand upon the back of his neck.

The Man in the White Cotton Gloves

Nobody saw him without them—he always wore white cotton gloves.

He came to our town the day after the vicar travelled to London for a brain operation. He arrived unexpectedly and unannounced at the Church House, wearing a pair of shabby flannels, a well-worn coat with leather elbows, and carrying a battered, much-travelled suitcase and the thing that puzzled us most, he wore white cotton gloves.

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An entertaining story about a man who meets a very personal God in a way that he would never have expected!  His Creator comes down to his level and gives him a fresh lease on life.

The Voyage

“Picture it.  The vacation of a lifetime where you are completely surrounded by a magnificent expanse of liquid turquoise-blue, the wind in your hair and the sun on your face.  Come and experience it on board The Majestic, the perfect get-away for those who feel trapped in the frenetic metropolis of life.”

The travel brochure sure had painted an idyllic picture, one that I had been burning with anticipation to experience for some time now.  It was time to face facts:  I needed this trip more than anybody.  Besides, no-one in their right mind could refuse such an offer.  And now here I was, scarcely able to believe that the day had finally arrived.

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