If there is one thing which is veiled to the average Christian it is the glory of Christ.   The church may preach many things, but if it neglects the essential glory of God’s Son, then it falls short of the basic and most necessary teaching of the Faith.   We seem to know many side issues…
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I recently treated Pamela, on her birthday, to a river and canal cruise starting in Amsterdam. This was to be my first holiday of this type having shied away from water travel, but she had done a similar thing previously. She has a bucket list and wanted to see the famous painting by Johannes Vermeer…
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Pamela and I decided we would spend our first wedding anniversary in Florence; I had not been there before, but she had been three times. She eulogised about it, and it caught my interest. I had been to Italy once to preach many years ago and then on to Venice, so my knowledge of the…
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The Stress of the Unfinished “As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.”  [Joshua 11:15] We often get side-tracked into issues which are unworthy, unhelpful and unrewarding. Therefore, we must be diligent to ensure that we…
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On the 5th or 6th of June 2012 you could have bought yourself a silver shade 14 welding glass so you could see the black disc of the planet Venus crossing the sun for the last time this century. By doing that you could measure how far the sun is from the earth, which is an…
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“Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” [Rom 15:13 KJV] Often our Christian profession is diluted by an inability to reconcile the terms ‘joy and peace,’ when our brooding horizon is hazily unclear and the…
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Dr Martin Luther King, Jr gave a speech on the 28th August 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. which is recorded in history as one of those spectacular dialogues that time and memory will not forget. It still rings true today. Here is part of it: – “I have a dream that one day…
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“In a survey revealed in a national newspaper it has been discovered that about one third (33%) of Britons believe that Jesus rose from the dead. The findings of a national poll contradict the picture of a secular society where Easter is little more than a chocolate-eating holiday. Women are more devout than men, according…
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There are some sisters in Good Counsel Hill, Mankato, Minnesota who seem to have gained the edge over the rest of mankind in mental and physical health. The Covent of the School Sisters of Notre Dame have been studied with a pioneering brain-science experiment by David Snowdon of Sanders-Brown Centre on Ageing and the University…
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At the height of Roman Britain, the Empire included all of Britannia, the Latin name for Great Britain (first invaded by Julius Caesar in 55 BC). People living in the Roman province of Britannia were called Britanni. The Emperor Claudius paid a visit while Britain was being pacified and was honoured with the agnomen Britannicus…
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