STRAWS IN A SECULAR WIND

Recent reports from funeral directors and burial authorities have noted a very sharp decline in Church and Christian funerals.  Newspapers have commented on it. They have confirmed what many of us have noted with much sadness over a number of years. Funeral “services” can now be conducted by a great variety of people and are […]

APPALLING VULNERABILITY

What a lesson was driven home to us this last week end! A cyber bug crippling hospitals and businesses; operations and consultations stopped in their tracks, and cars frozen on assembly lines. The lesson was simply that our modern world is appallingly vulnerable. Cyber sabotage, for whatever reason, may not be as obviously bloodthirsty in […]

“THE END OF HISTORY ?”

In the last decade of the twentieth century a well-known American Professor wrote an historical survey in which he made a startling comment that we had reached “the end of history”. On the face of it the statement was absurd, but what he was seemingly trying to convey was that we had reached a stage […]

A PROPHET WRESTLES WITH JUDGEMENT

“I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe even if you were told. I am raising up the Babylonians” Hab. 1:5-6        “Does he who disciplines nations not punish?” Ps 94:10 Habakkuk, the prophet, was a godly man who had a deep hatred for violence and injustice (Hab. 1:1-3). But unhappily, […]

GOD AT WORK IN HIS WORLD

“The Lord has made known his salvation and revealed his righteousness to the nations …. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God” Ps 98:3 “Come and see what the LORD has done, The desolations he has brought on the earth; He makes wars to cease to the ends of […]