[Audio clip: view full post to listen] This Message is also in audio format. Our reading today is found in Acts 8. 26-39. Our Text is v36. ‘What hinders me from being baptised? There are two principle players in this desert drama: Philip, the Evangelist and an unnamed African Chancellor of the Exchequer. In this [...]
Some years ago I used to commute to London’s West End on business. While working in that area of the Capital, I came across a shop situated in a side street off Regents street, selling left hand goods, such as scissors etc. The sign over the door read: The Left Hand Shop. My father was [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] This Message is also in audio format. Thoughts for today are centred around the following verses: Acts 16. 9-15. Our text is found in verse 9. ‘Paul had a vision. He saw a man over in Greece pleading with him: Come over here and help us.’ The book [...]
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)