Posted: 16th Jan 2012 (0 comments)
It is fascinating to read the ‘Wills’ column in the newspapers and see who has left part of their wealth to charitable causes. These people have obviously thought seriously about supporting organisations that they were interested in during their lives. Unfortunately, not many people get around to doing this. Indeed, too many people die without making a will at all. Others make a will and think it cannot be changed.
Posted: 20th Dec 2011 (0 comments)
New Year is an opportunity to take an inventory of our lives and make resolutions for the year ahead, but most of us realise how unrealistic we are in those first few days of January, and how undisciplined we are at keeping resolutions. This can bring feelings of failure and disappointment before the year’s even started. January is named after the Roman god Janus, depicted as a two-faced man looking towards both the past and the future.
As we think about New Year’s resolutions we can look in three directions: at yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Posted: 30th Nov 2011 (0 comments)
There was once a successful businessman who came from a large, close-knit but hard-up family. One year, when it came to December, he realised that he was far too busy to buy his relatives presents. So he decided to send each of them – there were twenty of them – a £100 cheque. He bought a pile of Christmas cards and a cheque book into his office and, between answering the phone and holding business meetings, managed to write a single sentence in twenty separate cards: ‘I thought you should buy your own Christmas present this year!’
Posted: 23rd Nov 2011 (0 comments)
No US holiday is as distinctive as Thanksgiving, held on the last Thursday of November. In our busy, deadline-fixated age, expressing gratitude to our heavenly Father is too easily squeezed out of our lives but it is important. Firstly, I think human beings are ‘hardwired’ to do this. Even atheists seem to have unsettling moments when they feel an irresistible urge to thank someone ‘up there’. One of the problems with atheism occurs when pain is avoided or pleasure gained – having no one to give thanks to leaves you with an itch you cannot scratch.
Posted: 1st Nov 2011 (0 comments)
The troubled stand-off between the anti-capitalist protesters of the ‘Occupy the London Stock Exchange’ and the management of St Paul's Cathedral has put Christianity into the national headlines for all the wrong reasons. The first closure of London's great landmark since the Blitz of the Second World War and the succession of resignations that have followed has perplexed many. What is going on? Who's right and who's wrong?
Posted: 24th Oct 2011 (0 comments)
Ezekiel 28: 12-19
12"Son of man, weep for the king of Tyre. Give him this message from the Sovereign LORD: You were the perfection of wisdom and beauty. 13You were in Eden, the garden of God. Your clothing was adorned with every precious stone--red carnelian, chrysolite, white moonstone, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald--all beautifully crafted for you and set in the finest gold. They were given to you on the day you were created. 14I ordained and anointed you as the mighty angelic guardian. You had access to the holy mountain of God and walked among the stones of fire.
Posted: 24th Oct 2011 (0 comments)
Imagine you are walking past a house when you notice a child sobbing in the garden or, late at night, you hear shouting and frightened screams coming from next door. What do you do? I hope you would do something. You would not walk on or just turn your music up. You would act, and probably without even thinking about it. We all know that, when suffering is happening and tragedy is imminent, to act is the only right – the only decent – thing to do. We must intervene.
Posted: 24th Oct 2011 (0 comments)
Have you ever played a game of Monopoly and been distraught to see your money, houses and even your beloved Mayfair and Park Lane properties taken over by another player? How does it feel when they then proceed to sweep the board and make everyone bankrupt?
Posted: 24th Oct 2011 (1 comments)
‘Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God.’ John 16:30 (NIV).
Winter time always brings back memories for me of my time in the Royal Marines when I was based in Scotland. Even though I had endured five Arctic winters in Norway, my memories were of the chill and wetness of the mountains of Scotland where we trained for days to toughen up in preparation for our trips to the Arctic Circle.
Posted: 24th Oct 2011 (0 comments)
It is not easy to film in a convincing way a true story about the Christian faith. Christian filmmakers in particular seem too often more interested in making a point than in letting the story carry its own weight.
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