An Unknown Teenage Virgin Is Given A Voice & A Vote In the year 1809 people were preoccupied with war on the battlefronts of Trafalgar and Waterloo. Yet in the same year William Gladstone was born in Liverpool and went on to become UK’s Prime Minister, Tennyson the poet was born in Lincolnshire, and Abraham [...]
He left His Father’s throne in Heaven A servant to become, He was not born in an ivory palace But as a carpenter’s son. He made Himself of no repute, This was not act of God, The form of a servant He took on Himself He chose the pathway He trod. In the likeness of [...]
SPONTANEOUS BROTHERHOOD. Amid the horrors of World War 1, there occurred a unique truce when, for a few hours, enemies behaved like brothers. Christmas Eve 1914 was all quiet on the Western Front, from the English Channel to the Swiss Alps. British soldiers raised Merry Christmas signs, and soon carols were heard from German and [...]
Reading: Genesis 32. 24-30 Text: v20 ‘I will not let You go except You bless me.’ Jacob proved to be unpromising material. By nature a crook, a cheat, a grabber. Yet God believed in him and persisted in straightening out his twisted nature. Be encouraged, God wants to invest in your life and mine – [...]
On a day when men were counted, God became the Son of Man; That His name in every census Would be entered, was His plan. God, the Lord of all Creation, Humble takes a creature’s place, He whose form no man has witnessed, Has today a human face. When there shone the Star of David [...]
In 1993, the far sighted decision was taken to convert 500 tons of Russian weapons into uranium fuel for American nuclear power plants. When the process is finished in 2013, the equivalent of twenty thousand Soviet missiles will have been redirected to warm and light the very same homes they were created to destroy. Disarmament of any kind always reaps a harvest of righteousness!
(John Glass. Direction Magazine)
Time magazine revealed recently that although the war in Vietnam ended 40 years ago, nearly one hundred and five thousand people have been killed or injured by land mines after the apparent end of hostilities. The conflict had finished but the damage was still going on. The spiritual lesson is obvious. Personal conflicts often leave incendiary devices in their wake.
(John Glass. Direction Magazine)