It was with interest that I read this extract some time ago from an email circular letter from Dr. Mike Evans “I was stunned to read that one out of five people in Israel today cannot afford to buy enough food for themselves and their families. Even worse, one in ten is suffering physical symptoms…
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In a recent article by Paul Krugman in the New York Times, he argues the current reality that to be an American is to be sicker than the people living in England; whereas the British are likely to over drink the Americans tend to be obese. However Britain only spends about 40 percent as much…
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God can correct us whilst we are in transit, because He knows all things past, current and future. A threefold God in charge of history, time and eternity who knows our defects and maladies, which He can rectify in any place and at any time and does not err in His continuance, for He is…
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“Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires,” [Isa 24:15 KVJ] and so we must for we are to manifest His glory in all aspects of our life, spiritual, natural and civil including suffering; no portion or part is to be excluded — the whole man for the whole Lord. Especially as our text infers…
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A lady who had a pain in her side went to her doctor, he said that she had appendicitis and needed an operation. She decided to get a second opinion from another doctor who said she had heart problems. She said, “I’m going back to my first doctor. I’d rather have appendicitis than heart problems.”…
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There are some nuns in Good Counsel Hill, Mankato, Minnesota who seem to have gained the edge over the rest of mankind in mental and physical health. The Convent of the School Sisters of Notre Dame is being studied with a pioneering brain-science experiment by David Snowdon of Sanders-Brown Centre on Ageing, and the University…
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A farmer has fallen foul of the local authority, and has felt the full weight of government bureaucracy. An inspector from Berkshire County Council identified the lack of width on a public pathway because barley had been allowed to grow on a part of the path that crosses his land. The inspector told the farmer…
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Harold Macmillan when opening a lecture course in 1941, recalled the philosopher J. A. Smith thus: “Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life – save only this – that if you work hard and diligently you should be able…
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The Psalms are not merely word melodies, but sparks from the anvil of life. Sledgehammer trials had moulded David, the author of so many, into a vessel meet for God’s treasure. A richness of personal experience emerges that answered the unspoken questions in his life. The unsettled issues of eternity and meaningful matters of time…
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Last Sunday our Associate Minister, Greg Pratt, preached an excellent sermon that reminded us of our position in Christ and he gave ten stances or titles within the Christian Life. Many people are not sure what their standing in life really is, and this reminder was to fortify us in the days that lie ahead…
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