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• We Can All Support Each Other
  Four years ago I visited the West Coast of the USA; one of the states I toured was California. While I was there I was taken with a group of tourists to see the Worlds biggest trees, the giant Redwoods, the biggest being over 360 feet.
  
  
  • LINDISFARNE
    I had the pleasure of visiting Lindisfarne. This was the name given to the Island by the first Anglo-Saxons to live there and we do not know the meaning of the word. But the monks of Durham, after the Norman Conquest, added the words Holy Island when they looked back over the story which began with the coming of Saint Aidan and the building of the first monastery in 635AD, which continued with the ministry of the "very popular" Saint Cuthbert but then received a staggering blow from the Viking attack in 793AD. Both to the Durham monks who died as Christian martyrs in this pagan attack and the earlier saints made the Island what was deservedly named "Holy".
    
    
    • The City of Bath, Its Abbey and Roman Baths
      The Abbey Church of Saint Peter, Bath, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is an Anglican parish church and a former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded in the 7th century, reorganized in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries, it is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country. The city of Bath now boasts a Roman monument unparalleled in north-western Europe. Scientific studies of the waters of Bath spring have revealed the presence of 43 different minerals including iron, magnesium, potassium, copper and radium. The prehistoric, Roman and early Christian people using the springs had no (known) way of determining the nature of these minerals yet none the less the springs have been venerated as a healing site since time immemorial.
      
      
    • Let’s Waltz the Night Away
      Vernon is just one of many of our Crusader friends that I have regularly called upon over the years and I continue to work in partnership with both them and the Lord for the betterment of their health and wellbeing. In many cases there has not been a quick fix to healing prayer but a gradual improvement over a period of time.
      
      
  • Religious Healing in First-Century Christianity
    The acts of miraculous healing by Jesus and his disciples form a major theme in the development of early Christianity. In particular, these New Testament accounts frequently portrayed healing as the casting out of evil spirits from possessed individuals. In so doing early Christianity established a model of behaviour for both sufferer and religious healer that would continue to modern times. What were the first-century contexts and possible sources for the emergence of early Christian healing? Masses of individuals believing themselves possessed by unclean or evil spirits sought the help of Jesus and his disciples. How can we understand this historical portrayal, its literary and behavioural reality? Does it bear a correspondence to our modern formulation of crowd behaviour and possession?
    
    
  • For He Who Casts the First Stone.
    We have all heard or read the story about the woman being accused of committing adultery being brought before Jesus by the scribes and Pharisees and that they had insisted that under the Law of Moses, she should be condemned to death by stoning.
    
    
  • Who Cares For The Carer
    When I was a freelance nurse, I would often notice that a patient would be receiving all the professional care whilst their carer who was also suffering all the emotional pain and a feeling of helplessness was ignored.
    
    
    • Dealing With Stress
      Everybody has to deal with unwanted, uncontrollable stress in their lives, natural disasters, and unexpected job loss, the death of a loved one, an accident, or an illness. All of these lie mostly outside of our realm of control.
      
      
    • A Healing For Terrorism
      On the 1st July I visited a rest home situated on an Island off the west coast of Scotland and spent some time with its residents. On my way back to England I visited the Lockerbie Memorial at Dryfesdale Cemetery, where there is a memorial to the 243 passengers, 16 crew members(all representing 21 nations) and the 11 residents of Lockerbie who lost their lives on the eve of 21st December 1988 due to an act of terrorism.
      
      
  • I Am One Of Them
    A short time ago I fell very ill and had to take some time off from my duties. During that time I read to take my mind off the illness and came upon an article about the island of Molokai. Hardly anywhere in the world is there a lovelier spot than Molokai, the Pacific island is always bathed in sunshine, always fanned by soft and sweet airs. Yet this was once one of the world’s saddest places. A place where hope was abandoned. Where one’s suffering was intense, and loneliness was almost unbearable. For Molokai was the island to which lepers were sent to linger unloved until death brought release.
    
    
  • Friendship
    May is my favourite time of the year when spring has nearly completed its magical transformation of our wonderful countryside.
    
    
  • A Guide To Answered Prayer and God's creation
    I am often asked about answered prayer and how does prayer work. Prayer is about relationship more than about answers. Our earnest prayers do not convince a reluctant God to act on our behalf, but rather, they provide an opportunity for us to open ourselves to God and to get to know Him. So as I looked up at the night's sky, a visita of God's creation was spread out before me, I realised afresh that however unfashionable it may be these days. The Book of Genesis gets amazingly near the truth - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
    
    
  • God’s Mercy Store
    This story takes place in Texas where in the town of Waller "God's Mercy Store," a unique general store, was opened in 1918. Goods were marked at cost, and customers paid cost plus whatever profit percentage they felt was appropriate. Owner Mr A. D. Purvis an ex-farmer claimed that the store was established "by the spirit of Christ which is love, mercy, and self denial." The store always showed a tidy profit and was still operating in the 1930s.
    
    
  • The Last Supper and The Spirit of Christmas
    On 25th December people from all around the world will celebrate one of the most important dates in our calendar; ‘Christmas;’ and the story of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ that will be acted out in Nativity plays everywhere. Thinking of Jesus brings another story to mind, and that is the story of "Pietro Bandinelli.The story begins with the painting of Leonardo Da Vinci's great masterpiece, "The Last Supper."
    
    
  • A Holiday Out Of This World
    It is now the start of a new year and the lucky ones among you will now be planning a new vacation. Where shall we go? We've Done Europe, we've done Asia and we've done the States. Yawn, where else do we go; off world maybe? Well recently, astronomers announced that they had made a giant breakthrough by finding something small. They turned up a planet that happens to be the most diminutive ever discovered beyond our own solar system, at least around a common type of star, a Red Drawf Gliese 876 . The object is roughly twice Earth's girth which, as planets go, is decidedly petite.
    
    
  • A Question of Faith
    The Bible is the only book where the author is always present whenever it is read. In answer to the many questions I have received regarding faith, I am reminded of H G Wells. He was never a particularly religious man, but after he had studied the history of the human race and had observed human life, he came to an interesting conclusion: “Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, He begins at no beginning, he works to no end. He may have his friendships, his partial loyalties, his scraps of honour. But all these things fall into place and life falls into place only with God.”
    
    
  • Life After Death
    I am often asked the age old question what happens after death. While some believe it's impossible to know whether there is life after death, belief in immortality is timeless. People of all times and places in history have believed that the human soul survives death.
    
    
  • The Praying Hands
    I was inspired to write this story when I received one day, a sculpture of the “Praying Hands” that had been made by our dear crusader friend Alfred.
    
    
  • St Paul
    Whilst holidaying in Malta I took the opportunity to visit St. Paul's Island where it is reputed that the vessel that Paul was being transported had been shipwrecked - but the location is still disputed to this day. The Island is a flat islet (or better St. Paul's Islands as they are two of them, which are separated, when the sea is rough) lying in St. Paul's Bay off the island of Malta.
    
    
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    • Free Bibles Available in Other Languages
      These Microsoft Access Bibles are in the Public Domain (No Copyright) and can be used to produce your own Bible software. They have been created from public domain electronic texts, and have been checked for accuracy. May God bless you to find new ways to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ.