This week’s promotional discount is on my 2007 fun quiz book Ask Me Another. Suitable for all ages, it offers a great way not only of testing your Bible knowledge but also of learning more about the people, places, stories and events recorded in Scripture. Normally retailing at £15.99, this week, until 25 September, you can purchase it at a 10 per cent discount – a saving of £1.60 – using the code ASK10 when ordering the book from the Kevin Mayhew website. Just type the code into the relevant box at the checkout between the dates given.
Meanwhile, here, first, are the answers to yesterday’s quiz, followed by another, taken from the book, to run alongside this promotion.
Answers to Quote, unquote quiz
- Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout to God with loud songs of joy. (Psalm 47:1)
- The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness – on them light has shined. (Isaiah 9:2)
- And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (Revelation 21:2)
- Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long. (Psalm 23:6)
- Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. (Matthew 5:4)
- When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. (1 Corinthians 13:11)
- Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. (Matthew 7:7)
- Know that the Lord is God. It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. (Psalm 100:3)
- In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1 John 4:10)
- Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me, and know my thoughts. (Psalm 139:23)
- Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. (1 Peter 2:10)
- Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. (John 14:27a)
- Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. (Philippians 2:3)
- For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. (Isaiah 55:8)
- Fools say in their hearts, ‘There is no God.’ (Psalm 53:1a)
Cryptic teaser
- Paul’s appeal to him in a letter in Greek bears fruit. (8 letters)
- East of Eden: indicate you agree. (3 letters)
- Woman emerges with article after precious stone is cut, but what’s been kept back? (8 letters)
- The legal aim is confused but this authority on the law won respect. (8 letters)
- By the sounds of it, this prophet’s father enjoyed a tipple. (4 letters)
- He was given the sack, so to speak. (8 letters)
- A friend who moved Jesus to tears. (7 letters)
- He ends up in jail – confused or what! (6 letters)
- Confused Arab bans Paul’s companion. (8 letters)
- Returned to find the body if not the soul. (4 letters)
- Where there be hope, there, in some shape or form, she be too. (6 letters)
- Concerning him, Elijah was again a bothersome prophet. (6 letters)
- Vigil galvanises Jewish town. (6 letters)
- Disconsolate disciples meet the master on the way here, or is it us following Emma? (6 letters)
- Jewish leader who had a grip part of the time at Paul’s trial. (7 letters)