March – April 2017
Today, behind a plain brick wall on the outskirts of Tehran stands a 20 metre tall 12th Century tower commemorating Togrul Beg, the founder, in 1037, of the Seljuk Empire. This intriguing polygonal structure, with its 48 exterior faces (providing great stability) towers over the city of Ray, once …
From a Scriptural perspective the death affecting mankind is an enemy; something that needs to be defeated and removed. This is plain from the apostle Paul’s teaching in 1 Corinthians 15 where we are told that “the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death” (v26), and that ultimately death w…
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We live in a world full of covetousness, crime, and corruption – a world full of sin and ungodliness as prophesied in 2 Timothy 3. Mankind has never been worse off and sadly these negative circumstances that surround us make it easy to become disheartened. It feels, at times, like it may never get…
Society is in an ever-degrading cycle of moral standards, violence, and, to put it very simply, evil. Take the example of homosexuality: there was a time when a person who was found guilty of such acts would be imprisoned. Today, we could say the situation has completely turned around; many countrie…
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The Genesis account of Esau’s wives seems to give two lists that differ.
List One
Gen 26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Gen 28:9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives…
The Year that Changed Everything
The year of 2016 was one of shocks, and one of political revolution. After Donald Trump’s win in the US Presidential election, many front page headlines emphasised that this is a ‘Revolution’. Prominent Brexit front man, Nigel Farage, made the following commen…
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Isaiah 11:11 states: “And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamat…
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The Saharan silver ant is a unique creature that is able to survive the scorching midday heat in the Saharan and Sinai deserts. It emerges at the same time each day for just a few minutes, when no other desert creature can stand the heat, and goes foraging for insects that have succumbed to the dese…
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