Preaching with a purpose

Here in the Northern hemisphere the nights are pulling in making our days shorter.  Next week in Britain this will be suddenly accelerated when the clocks go back an hour and our afternoons will be shorter.  For many people this will trigger depression.  Just as hedgehogs and similar animals will be told by their body clocks that it is time to hibernate, I believe our bodies get a similar urge to slow down.  If we realize this we can pace ourselves differently and learn not to fight the urge but to work with it.   I want to say a few things to those who are depressed.  I have been there and it is not a nice place from a comfort point of view, although it can be a time when we learn important things about life and ourselves.  The Bible says that it is better to be in the house of mourning than in the house of laughter.  At a funeral you are brought face to face with the inevitableness of death at some point unknown.  This is sobering and sho...

Basically it’s because it is run by people.   Yes every one of use is flawed, we are sinners who have a selfish bias.   Every one of use is saying inside, “I want.”   Now I believe our politicians start out wanting to do the best for our countries, but somewhere along the line they discover if they go a certain way, maybe not the way they had intended, they will get perks which would be rather nice to have and so they just veer a tiny little bit off the track they had meant to follow.   I do not know much about he, but I believe Joy Cox who was murdered on the streets of her town, is an example of a young women, setting out to do good for her constituents. Sadly we will never know if she would have continued in this way, but I will give her the benefit of doubt.   Many politicians work long hours and hard to serve the country. But there is always the lure of obtaining more power or money.   In recent years we had the scandal of M.Ps claiming for ex...

I have been fascinated to see the energy and determination Ed Balls has put into his appearances on Strictly Come Dancing. It seems to me he is a good advert for the Labour Party, although I believe he lost his seat in the past general election.   I guess if he was still in parliament we would not have seen this side of him.   Generally I am not altogether happy with watching Strictly.   It seems to me much of the dancing should only be done by married couples in private, as much of it looks very much like fore play to me, but you must make up your own mind on that.

The evolutionists tell us that everything evolved and that plants came before insects and mammals.   This evening I saw a programme which showed a pitcher plant that had a symbiotic relationship with a bat.   The bat found the plant a nice place to rest in the cool at midday and the plant lived off the bat’s poo.   This is a relationship which can only have begun from the outset.   If the plant didn’t have the poo it couldn’t survive and the bat needed the plant for shelter. So just how could this develop slowly, especially as the pitcher plant would not have survived all those mammaless years without the bat.   Similarly I believe the yucca plant depends on the yucca moth, how can that work if evolution is right?   I believe in God who created all things.   Instead of complimenting the bat and pitcher plant on adapting to each other we should be praising the wonderful God who set up these exquisite partnerships and put them in place from the beginn...

Yes, many people are afraid that World War Three could start at any moment.  What fools, don't they realize it has already started? Just because we don't have bombing in Britain( except very occasionally terrorist bombing) this doesn't mean that the war hasn't started.  After all the major powers are involved in Syria and Iraq and no doubt covertly in many other places.  We have forgotten how much war there is in Africa, mainly because the main media, such as  the BBC, does not update us on these.  Terrible things are happening in our world.  The world is at war. So what is my advice to the ordinary person?  Put your trust in Jesus Christ and you will have nothing to fear. We are all in far more danger than the danger of world war.  We are in danger of God's wrath if we do not turn to Jesus so that He will forgive our sins.  If we do this nothing the world can throw at us will matter, because our eternal destiny will be secure.  If you d...

Freedom of speech is not just about being able to speak your viewpoint but about being able to hear another opinion than the government’s line.   This is a vital part of democracy.   I hear that NatWest has closed the account of RT.   This would seem to be in order to close the station down.   Being able to hear another side of the question about world news is very important to me.   I don’t blindly follow RT’s line on things but I do wish to hear another opinion on worldwide happenings. Did NatWest think up this action all on their own, or did someone instruct them? Democracy is about choice.   If you do not know the other man’s view you have no choice.   All this goes to show that humans want to win and to do so will keep the truth from you. This attitude would make me very cross if I thought my future depended on it, but my future is safe with Jesus.   He is the only one you can really trust.

Is it, my foot?!!   It so happens that none of us are impartial.   We are not capable of it.   We always look at things from our own viewpoint, according to what we have experienced and learned in life.   But the BBC certainly is not impartial; the way it slants interviews and gives more time to some stories than others.   It is true that there are so many wars going on in the world that it would be impossible to keep up with them fully all the time, but Africa gets very little coverage.   Even the ongoing migrant crisis drops out of view as and when the BBC desires. Now and again I take a look at other news programmes such as RT (once known as Russia Today) to get a different slant on things.   It’s not that I think it is more reliable, but just that you get another perspective and don’t get dragged entirely into the BBC’s way of seeing things.   I cannot understand the need to report all the gory details when a young girl is kidnapped, ra...