Joel Warnock

Bringing warmth to a fathers heart

October 5, 2010

One of my children came downstairs, after being in their room for ages yesterday, with the following list of verses. They had obviously spent a long time going thru a bible looking at highlighted verses and choosing, as they put it, their “favorite ones”. I think its a pretty good list, actually, and I am [...]

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10 Things I learnt on my summer “break”

September 1, 2010

Following just over a month of this self-imposed near-total break from my online life (obviously not including my paid work!) what have I discovered? WordPress’s auto-publish feature is bullet-proof and a real gift You hardly missed me as a result of 1. and my kind guest bloggers. Indeed, traffic remained pretty high considering it was August. Phil [...]

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Is This Five-Word Prayer One of the Best We Could Ever Pray?

November 14, 2008

My son, Joel, often wants to pray “Thank you, God, for everything!” I never know whether to congratulate him or tell him to pray a so-called “proper” prayer. Truth is, it IS a proper prayer!

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Review of the Year – The Warnock Family

December 16, 2007

The past twelve months have been relatively stable for us as a family. It is the first year for awhile that none of us have started a new job, or a new school (although Joel did move up from the school’s nursery class to reception). We have not moved, and we certainly haven’t moved church. [...]

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Joel’s Prayer

August 6, 2006

Hello, Tamasin here! I would just like to tell you a funny story about my youngest brother Joel. Once we all went to the prayer meeting together as a family and near the end there was a time where people were praying for one another. My mum was looking after Joel, and asked him to [...]

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Mother Warnie

February 5, 2006

Thought it was about time you saw the more attractive half of my marriage! This is Mrs Warnie with Tamasin and Joel. It was taken last month at a pantomime!  

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Is Big Ben the "doctor who place" Joel?

October 6, 2005

My son Joel (age 2) is bright, but like all kids has a slightly different view of the world than we do.He just pottered up to my PC and saw the picture at the top of my blog. He said “Look, Daddy’s at the Doctor Who place, he is!” Isnt it funny that though we [...]

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Childrens book review: most of all Jesus loves you

September 19, 2005

“Most of all Jesus loves you” by Noel Piper is simple and to an adults eye I initially thought it would not interest many of my kids. With four kids ranging from 4-8 we have a fairly good laboratory to test books out. When I first read this book to our two year old Joel [...]

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Counting blessings combats holiday blues, studies show

January 2, 2004

Being grateful is good for you. ‘What are you greatful for?’ asks mamamusings Where to start? Thank you God for my lovely wife Andrée Warnock (who was born Andrée Hamer) who puts up with far more than any woman should have to, and who is the best person I have met in the whole world. [...]

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Blogging for the children

November 9, 2003

Euan at The Obvious?? states : “my reason for trying to give The Obvious? a positive outlook is not so much that I am trying to hide any negative feelings from myself or from those who read me as trying to counter the overwhelmingly negative tone of so much of what we read, hear and [...]

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