As the Coronavirus sweeps through the world and the death toll mounts day after day we are staggered at the loss of life. The death toll in America has risen to frightening levels while in Europe, particularly in Spain and Italy, the number of deaths has also been shocking. We were greatly concerned in the […]
Hospital – A Place of Healing
It is quite intriguing that the UK Government has initiated the building of new hospitals throughout England to cope with coronavirus patients, called the “Nightingale Hospitals”. Florence Nightingale has an illustrious place in history as the founder of modern nursing. Her fame reached its peak during the Crimean War when in 1854 she felt called […]
Thought for today
Isaiah 55: 8 – 11 “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways”, declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return […]
Interesting sermons
Interesting sermons especially helpful in current situation. David Finnie of Ebenezer Bangor Wales http://www.ebenezerbangor.org.uk/online-service/ His passage was Psalm 46 and how it describes unprecedented times in days gone by and he related this to our current situation. If you only want to hear the sermon it is from 18.38 onwards. Alistair Begg in his own […]
God’s promises in the day of the pandemic
When troubles challenge us from time to time, the Bible, God’s love letter to humanity, comes with a number of promises. The first, I guess, was the one that was made to Noah. In Genesis 9:11, God said “Never again will all life be cut off by the water of a flood; never again will […]
A Model for Self-Isolating
As the Coronavirus crisis deepens all across the world, the leaders of the nations are instructing everyone to “stay at home”, to isolate themselves, to be out of contact from everyone. The adjustments in all our lives because of this instruction are very significant. In the Bible, in 1 Kings 17, there is a crisis […]
News Letter – April 2020
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The Storm
Matthew Chapter 8:23 – 27 Struggling in the Storm! Strength in the Storm An Anchor in the Storm One of Mosie Lister’s classic hymns, “Keep me safe till the storm passes by” (Gaither Homecoming Group) has been on my mind for some time especially since reading through this interesting passage in the Gospel of Matthew […]
Keep me Safe ’til the Storm Passes
“In the dark of the midnight have I oft hid my face While the storm howls above me, and there’s no hiding place ‘Mid the crash of the thunder, Precious Lord, hear my cry Keep me safe till the storm passes by” At the moment, there is a tsunami wave crashing over the whole world; […]