Christians often struggle with prayer because it has become a one-way conversation with the ceiling. It doesn't have to be this way! In this revised and updated edition of the classic bestseller, Peter Lord offers an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to developing a rich prayer life--moving believers from one-way communication to God to two-way communication with God. He answers such questions asCan I hear God's voice today?How can I discern the difference between God's voi...

Peter Lord, considered to be the greatest living scholar on Welsh visual art and culture, surveys the evolution of the visual culture of Wales from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century in this new, single-volume history. Written for everyone with an interest in the art and history of Wales, the volume illustrates some 400 landscapes and portrait paintings, prints and sculptures from artists such as Augustus John, Ceri Richards, Christopher Williams and many more. The author ...

The six sequential essays in this collection provide a narrative of a century and a half of Welsh painting, written with an emphasis on issues of social class and national identity. Through his earlier writing, Peter Lord has contributed to the establishment of an historical tradition of Welsh painting, but because it does not feature in the wider story of Western art history as presently told, the work revealed continues to be perceived as marginal, existing in isolation from ideas and mo...

"When you bless," says Peter Lord, "dramatic, miraculous changes take place."In Bless and Be Blessed, this author and pastor shares how we often neglect to bless others until after death. But it is much more useful to give a good or well-meaning word to our loved ones while they are still alive. Coworkers, children, spouses, and friends all need uplifting messages when they can hear, receive, and be transformed by them.With wisdom, personal anecdotes, and hands-on exercises...

The creators of Chicken Run and the Wallace & Gromit series share the inside story of their Oscar award-winning animation company.Aardman Animations was founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. Joined by animator Nick Park in 1985, Aardman pioneered a quirky, lovable style of stop-motion animation and brought to life a string of unforgettable movies and television shows, including the highest-grossing stop-animated film of all time, Chicken Run...

More From Grinding Halt carries on from where Grinding Halt left off. Nobby and Nigel are now well established in the viallge and it is generally idyllic, but trouble is brewing. Nigel's wife has heard that her ex-husband has inherited a lot of money from an uncle - Nigel usew most of it to buy the railway station - and she turns up demanding her share. Thelma devises a plan to get rid of her. She suggests that she pretends to be Nigel's girlfriend, but the fates take control and things do...

Nobby Clifton, a petty crook most of his life is scared of dying in prison so he decides to retire from the game and go to live with his brother who runs a cafe and gift shop in the little village of Grinding Halt, a little coastal holiday village. Unfortunately his sister-in-law can't stand him but his niece Thelma idolises him so it isn't all bad. Unfortunately for Nobby an old adversary of his Nigel Pugh, a newly retired prison officer has bought the redundant railway station in Grindin...

Peter is an author and a recluse, he isn't keen on the human race and tends to keep well clear, which is why the cofid pandemic has hardly any effect on his life - so far. He has decided to keep a diary and also to experiment with Skype. One day there is a message on Skype which changes his life for ever, which is complicated even more when a beautiful young woman who lives in the house opposite decides that she is going to be a regular visitor for coffee and dunking biscuits, maybe more.

Through the rose tinted spectacles of time and with a selective memory let us take a journey back to 1952 to a time when most of us mere mortals lived in small yards also known as courts. Each yard had six or eight two up and two down tiny terraced houses, there was an outside toilet at the bottom of the yard shared by all the inhabitants, there was usually a wash house, again shared. The King has died, his daughter Elizabeth becomes Queen. What was life like for us peasants in those days?...

Lady Charlotte Montgomery, a retired parliamentarian realises there is a gap in the hotel market, a hotel specifically to cater for naughty weekends by the great and the good. She takes over a hotel tucked away in the mountains of Wales; she does not open to the general public, she sells shares to MP's, Bishops, Golfers, etc offering in exchange guaranteed discretion. Unfortunately as in all good plans there is a snag. The local village church has held a fete on the front lawn of the hotel...

Christmasland is invaded by the Arctic Dragons, a little known species of animal that normally are very timid and stay out of sight. The mystery is why have they invaded Christmasland and why have they surrounded the house of Santa Claus making him a prisoner? They need Josh to help find out what is going on!

Have you ever thought how marvellous it would be to send a lifesize image of yourself to visit your girlfriend or indeed any other girl, maybe halfway round the world, or indeed have an image of your girl visit you?Three scientists have found the way to do that. This is their story.