In ancient times human life held little value. Indeed gladiatorial games were even held for entertainment in which people were killed for sport. There was no Emperor more depraved than Commodus when it came to the arena. If someone had suffered a cardiac arrest during...
Queen Elizabeth II has been a rock of stability for the world for the last seven decades. When I lived as a child in Papua New Guinea she came in 1985 to commemorate 10 years of independance and I saw her. A memory I will...
You don’t see God with your eyes, unless something very out of the ordinary happens. There are other ways of seeing Him. God is a spirit (John 4:24) so he is “made” of spiritul ‘matter’ and not of atoms. Spiritual things are real, and in fact...
In 1882, the Morgan Brothers started mining a seam of gold on Ironstone Mountain that proved to be incredibly wealthy. Not long after, during the early years, they were pulling in gold at the rate of more than ten ounces per tonne of dirt. The...
On December 31, 2017, forty-two people from the Peace Christian Church were gathered for prayer to usher in the New Year, which of course was last year. During that evening a word grew within us, that was already a reality before, but became concrete. The...
One of the most profound things God is doing in the world right now is the opening of minds and hearts of believers to each other. There is a huge increase in awareness of the need for Christian unity, and the ecumenical movement over the...
As a young pastor in Mt Morgan struggling for converts I receive wise advise from a traveling evangelist. He told me “it is God who builds the church,” and advised me to pray for God to take His place as builder. I began praying daily the prayer that...
We humans have a terrible track record for taking things which are full of life, exciting, and where God is moving, and turning them into systems, traditions, programs, patterns. We turn life into something formal. We can all think of any number of moves of God...
We always believe the Lord to do more with us, than before. We look with faith to Him, trusting to see more of Christ, and to find fellowship with Him, and with the saints that we belong to. Our lives constantly increase in joy as...
John Alley’s new book The City Gate has arrived today, and we are pleased to be sending out the first pre-orders today to all those who have been so patiently waiting. It has been a long wait, as printing and shipping has taken a number of months, but...
