We fear for our kids – and especially our grandchildren – as predictions of doom for the New Year and beyond keep coming. Our fears are justified too. Name, for instance, just one problem threatening our survival that we’ve solved. War? Still happening. Disease? Still rampant. Famine? A child dies every 3 seconds from starvation. [...]
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Flu killed around 50 million people between March 1918 and June 1920. Half the world’s population was infected, including people in the Arctic. The Spanish flu, as it was called, has been described as “the greatest medical holocaust in history,” and its descendants have been popping up in various forms, mild and lethal, ever since. [...]
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Wouldn’t it be great having nothing to worry about? – your health’s good, no family issues, stacks of money, lots of friends, great neighbourhood, safe city and secure job. How nice. But where on this planet is life actually like that? There’s always something gumming up the works. Build your house on a hill, it’s [...]
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Following up on the question in my last blog as to “what possible purpose could God have in allowing his children to suffer?” Paul answers with Romans 8:17 – “Now if we are children, then we are heirs – heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order [...]
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Following up on the question in my last blog, “When fear takes hold how do you stop it?” here’s the scripture in full that answers it – “For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship,” Romans 8:15. [...]
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Isn’t it fascinating watching how people react to crisis? On the one hand there are those who panic, who on hearing of a swine flu outbreak write alarming columns in newspapers about potential pandemic, or close schools and ban the import of pork based on a few people getting sick, or feed their fears by [...]
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I wondered, as I stood waiting to cross the road, what would happen instead if I kept walking. To keep walking would mean arriving at my car a few seconds earlier and different things, therefore, would happen on my journey home. Would those things be better for my life or worse? Would I be in [...]
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