Faith as These Little Ones

My wife has a wonderful singing voice and she ministers next to her twin sistee who is equally gifted. The other day we held an African themed night and had many different nations represented. My wife and sister-in-law sang a beautiful song in English and Yoruba. We heard afterwards how many wete touched by the song, but just today heard something very touching. A friend told us that a dear three year old girl had wept at the song and said 'Jesus touched me'. Oh, to have the sensitivity and faith of such little ones. The song was anointed, but what a joy to hear a young child being so touchrd.

Give and it Will Come Back to You

The other day I was touched by an offering given at our church. I normally try and give above my tithe when I pay it, but will also respond with cash throughout the month. This time I had no cash but just had to reach for my card details because somethi.g touched me. I gave an amount and thought nothing of it, only to find the same amount lying on the street while walking just over a week later. I felt that I was being shown that God will faithfully bless those who give, and many times in unexpected circumstance.

Never Too Old to Be Healed

The other week I prayed for an elderly man that attends our church. He had had a knee replacement ten years previously, and now at 83 years young it was playing up again and bringing him pain.

He had been to the doctors and the hospital had told him that he was too old to perform the procedure on. I am not sure whether this was because they thought he wouldn't last long and therefore it was a waste of money, or whether it just wasn't possible at his age. Either way, I said that we'd have to trust in the great physician and ask Jesus to do what the doctors couldn't, or wouldn't, do.

I saw him a few days later and he said that the pain he had in the knee was completely gone! He said that I must have the healing touch, but I pointed him straight to the power and grace of God. He said that since his knee got healed I better pray for his carpal tunnel syndrome in his wrists! I am now waiting to hear another victory report. Jesus Christ: the same yesterday, today and forever.

Knowing He Cares

Just yesterday I was waiting for a train when I saw a young woman who was crying. She was on her mobile phone but had a tissue to her eyes and appeared to be hearing bad news. 

I waited for her to put her phone down and then approached her to ask her why she was crying. She burst out in sobs, with tears rolling down her cheeks to say that her uncle had just died. I told her I was sorry to hear that and immediately began to minister to her. I told her that through this she has to trust God that His ways our not our ways and thoughts not our thoughts; that He can do things through this in her family that will turn for a blessing.

I said that she should not get angry with God for the time they didn't have, but thank Him for the time they did have. I hadn't even asked if she was a Christian but was led of the Spirit to minister the hope of the Word. He was nearly 60 and lived in Africa - I pointed out that life expectancy in Africa is generally quite low so he definitely had a good innings as the British would say! I asked if her last time with him was happy and she said that it was. I said that many people's last time with a lost loved one was negative, so she was blessed in that also and could keep the memories.

She said that her family couldn't take another hit and that she was struggling with her faith; I was able to minister that God will not give her anything beyond what she can handle and that she should take all things by prayer, with thanksgiving for all His blessings, to Him.

I told her that when you are wounded badly it causes a scar. Overtime the pain goes but the scar will always be there. I said that she would never forget her uncle, but in time her heart would heal. I asked if I could pray for her, telling her that of all the trains I could've caught and all the times I could have come, God had me here for her to show that he loves her. I prayed for the healing of her heart and the blessing of her family through this.

I then got out my Bible and said that I wanted to read her a scripture. She requested Psalm 109 and after I had finished reading the train came. We got on and I then deliberately changed the subject to if she worked in town and what she did. I found out that she was a database analyst for a cosmetic company and I mentioned that I was on my way for a data collection appointment. When my stop came I gave her a flyer for our fellowship and she thanked me for ministering to her. The tears had stopped flowing and I left her smiling.

Glory to God that He would position willing ministers to reach out to the saints in need! When a young lady could have shipwrecked her faith in grief, God had a soldier there ready to call her back to the glory of His Kingdom!

The Father is With Us

I was travelling by bus today and I noticed a child in a pram was crying incessantly. It was one of those cries that you could tell was from being irritable, rather than from any real need such as being sick or hungry.

The father was with the child, rather than its mother, and he mostly seemed to ignore the child's protestations; the only thing he would do was to offer the occasional  reassuring word. What the child didn't understand was that they had to get where they were going and that they couldn't get there without riding on a hot and sticky bus.

My mind immediately went to the Father in Heaven. Here we are going through the journey of life moaning and crying out much of the time. We often have to think to realise all the things to be thankful for, but find it very easy to write a long list of wants and reasons to complain. We feel neglected and irritable; we wonder why we have to be stuck in such a situation and why God is not helping us like we think He should.

We must understand what that child couldn't: the Father is right there with us all the time, but there are things we have to go through that are necessary for us to reach our destiny in Christ. God in His grace will give us the occasional word from scripture or over the pulpit to comfort us, but to molly-coddle us would be doing us a disservice - spiritual babes, and then children, have to learn to go through unpleasant experiences with patience and faith.

At the end of every sticky bus ride is a refreshing summer breeze and a nice glass of mango juice - hopefully!

What Are the Chances?

I remember an incident that happened a couple of years ago that really illustrated God's special providence - His ability and desire to move in people's lives to point them towards truth. This is not a Calvinistic over-powering of human agency, but an example of the love and desire for redemption that took Christ to the cross.

I was with my wife and sister-in-law, travelling by underground train through central London. There was a lady on her own with a large suitcase, so I offered to help her take it down the stairs. As I handed it back to her I reached in my coat pocket for a church flyer and invited her along. She politely said that she was from America and so wouldn't be able to attend, but on seeing the name of our church said "The Potter's House? I'm from a small town in the middle of Arizona, but we do have a Potter's House. I've never been, but maybe I'll visit now."

She had come from thousands of miles away, and from a small town in the middle of nowhere, only to have a chance meeting with a member of the fellowship who was willing to help and to step out and invite her to church. I think I mentioned that this could be God calling her out to the church, and I fully believed it. I just can't wait to reach one of the Arizona conferences one day and see if I get an excited tap on the shoulder!

A Snippet of Our Time in Kenya

The Best Prayers to Pray

Recently I found my personal evangelism waning. Although our church has its regular local outreaches and national teams travelling to our various fellowship churches around the country, if we cannot or do not share our faith outside of set church programs then it is not as living and active as we think.

We pray for many things, and most of those for ourselves, but the best prayers to pray are those that will be a blessing to others. Although I would never deny His heart to bless and help us personally, I have found God to much more readily answer selfless prayers than selfish ones. My case in point happened just this morning.

I had been contending for a renewed passion for souls and a leading of the Spirit in personal evangelism for many weeks in prayer. This morning I sat down on the tube train and a man and woman got on who began to talk loudly to each other. The lady sat next to me and the man across from her so I could hear every word of their conversation. They began to talk about the ubiquitous antisocial networking site Facebook, and in doing so the man mentioned a friend that had died suddenly while travelling. He was just 28 and had been out partying, only to not wake up in the morning. The man had then found out about his death by checking the comments on Facebook.

I knew that this was a Holy Ghost opportunity to bring up eternity, but didn't want to suddenly interject in their conversation. I took a church flyer out of my bag thinking that I could just hand it to him as I got off the train, but only to find that he was getting off at the same stop. I let him run on ahead until I could find an open spot to hand it to him, praying inside that he would get the same connection as me. Sure enough, we were running for the same train, which had just pulled onto the platform. At the very same moment we reached the platform through the crowd, and in the same spot, as the doors closed and the train pulled off.

Knowing this was God I said "I hate it when that happens". And that was how I started my conversation with Rob. I said I was sorry to hear that his friend died and asked if he thought there was anything beyond death. He asked what I believed and then started a fantastic 15 minute conversation on eternity, corruption, salvation and my testimony.

He asked me questions about death in the world, reincarnation and Spiritualism and I was able to give him answers which he readily listened to. We again got off at the same stop, finding out that we worked in the same town. As he shook my hand and said it was nice to meet me I handed him the flyer that now meant a lot more to him than before we had that blessed conversation. I immediately thanked God for answering my prayers for a renewed leading of the Spirit in personal evangelism and prayed those seeds would bare fruit.

Take a moment to pray that you may be a blessing to others in fellowship, ministry and giving - and especially to the lost in evangelism.

The Door Opener

I was just reading about Pastor Torey Williams from The Door in Spring Lake, NC, having a chance meeting with the future mayor while waiting in line at a store. A relationship developed and Pastor Williams was asked to lead in prayer at the mayor's inauguration.

I have recently seen such an open door, but have not really given God the credit for it as I should. I have held a burden for the nation of Tanzania since the almost the first day of my salvation (seven years ago), and have doggedly held the vision that I fully believe was given of God to see Tanzania washed in the blood of Christ and seeing flaming revival.

I posted recently about having a chance meeting with a lady from Tanzania who had attended our church previously while in the UK. Well, she told me a week or so ago that her husband has just been promoted to a cabinet position in the Tanzanian government. Unbeknownst to me, President Jakaya Kikwete was having a clear out of his government, previously riddled with corruption, and in the process promoted my friend's husband from a junior ministerial position to being the Minister for Tourism and Land Resources. 

What does this mean to a man who sometime within the next couple of years will be launched to Tanzania to start a work for the Kingdom? It is probably the sign that I needed, having recently been slightly swayed in the vision by a visit to Kenya and hearing the competing cry of that nation. I have been welcomed to my friend's home in advance and that will surely involve meeting her husband in the very city that I have been stirred for all these years - Dar es Salaam.

Help with housing, buildings, outreaches or permissions? I have no idea. But I do know that those God calls He also equips, and I take this as confirmation of His hand being on us and with us. We will soon see...

Obama's Final Nail

As if Barack Obama had any more revelations for the US voting public, news channels and outlets are now carrying his latest announcement of support for homosexual marriage.

Having not lived up to the ridiculous, messiah-esque hope that was placed on him - proving that a black man will do no better than a white man if he isn't submitted to the will of God - you would think he would be looking for the most inclusive pledges and statements with which to flesh out the thrust of his re-election campaign.

Successfully putting paid to hope of swinging many of the votes of the black church that saw him rise from obscurity to become the CEO of the American corporation, he has recently stated his support for a New Age agenda that openly flies in the face of biology, anatomy, history and logicality.

With the debate about 'gay' marriage still raging over here in the UK, Obama has weighed in with his opinion as the world's most ostensibly powerful man - no doubt in an attempt to influence world opinion and thus strengthen the homosexual agenda in every nation. Pro-abortion (infanticide), pro-homosexuality (perverted sexual urges) and now pro-homosexual marriage (legal consummation of said perverted sexual urges); Obama has shaped up to be quite the last days bastion of all things ungodly and minority supported.

The West is terrible at voicing world opinion - they ignore the fact that numbers of countries ban homosexual activity, let alone legal marriage of homosexuals, with some countries levying life sentences against such acts and lifestyles. The UK is the unspoken head of the Commonwealth - the Commonwealth simply being a neutered British Empire - with the Queen as the symbolic Head. The UK and the 'developed' (read: secular) countries of the Commonwealth are known to be supporters of the homosexual agenda, yet the majority of Commonwealth countries ban Homosexual activity (41 out of 54).

When will the West stop trying to force its secular humanist agenda on the rest of the world? The answer is it won't. Big political trouble will be stirred up by David Cameron and the like acting as neo-colonial dictators, threatening the ban of aid and the imposition of sanctions against nations who still have a semblance of godliness and morality. Then the third world war that is about to kick off between Russia, Iran, North Africa, Turkey and Israel will distract them completely from the girlie screeches of Peter Tatchell and such ambassadors for sodomy. And then? Then the return of the Christ and Judge who will bring true judgement and morality back to a sinful world.

Faithful Sowing

Pondering on my recent trip to Kenya, I remembered an interesting incident that occurred during our time in the city of Nakuru.

I had been meaning to go out and outreach in the local park with my friend who was travelling with us. We had a great view of it from our hotel window, and I could see that there were plenty of people to preach the gospel to. My friend didn't seem too keen on the idea, so I left him (along with my valuables) and headed for the park with my Kiswahili Bible in hand.

I reached the centre and a dried up water feature and began to preach in broken Swahili. The quiet haze of the afternoon was broken sharply by my zealous cry and tens of eyes were fixed on me. My unusual, yellow-skinned appearance and zeal for the gospel seemed to have everybody mesmerized; I think they wondered whether I was a radical Arab Muslim or not.

After giving it my best shot for ten minutes I pulled for souls, then backsliders, then the sick - nothing. Nobody moved an inch. The bemused stares continued as I walked the thin path out of the park and back to my hotel. As I was about to enter I heard someone call 'Pastor!' Turning around I saw a man who shook my hand and thanked me for the word. I asked if he was born again and he said that he wasn't, but a Catholic. I said that Jesus called everyone to be born again and that heaven couldn't be his home without such a decision.

There, in front of the Merica hotel, on a dusty Nakuru road I led my first East African convert to Christ. He was a Maasai man named John. I told him of our main Nakuru church and he said he knew it, and with that I congratulated him and walked back into the cool hotel buzzing. I had thought that the whole adventure had been futile, but unknown to me this man had followed me out of the park, ripe and ready to receive Christ.

Wherever we find ourselves in the world, and no matter how fallow the ground seems, we are called to be faithful sowers of the Word of God. We might not always see the fruit there and then, but God has promised us His Word will not return void, but accomplish what He pleases.

The Heart of the Tower Builder

With news that the One World Trade Center is nearing completion, I couldn't help but be reminded of a certain scripture. Several actually...

Built on the original World Trade Center site, the tower is set to be the tallest in the Western hemisphere, symbolically standing 1,776 ft above the Manhattan skyline. The foundations first began to be laid in 2006 and sometime this summer it will be topped out.

So the scriptures?

Genesis 11:4 And they said, go to, let us build a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Revelation 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.


So what are we to make? The continued desire of man since the fall has been to make his own name, forsaking the authority of God. The West has become more and more back-slidden over the 20th and early 21st century, but the real spirit is of antichrist. Not so much denial of God outright, but denial of the true God and the Saviour Jesus Christ - I say this because the biggest tower in the world is in Muslim Dubai.

So from claims of Barack Obama being a messiah figure to the new 'One World' tower, we are clearly living in an antichrist generation that will culminate in the revelation of the Man of Sin. From the IMF to the UN, we having been moving to one world governance for many years and with another sign - a modern day tower of Babel erected right in the heart of the West - it is only a matter of years before we see fulfilment of Revelation and true global governance and rebellion against God.

Let us labour while it is still day. Give, pray and go!

BC or BCE?

One of the most blatant examples of the secularisation of the West, or should I say the promotion of the atheistic religion, has been the recent switch in usage from using the terms BC and AD when referring to our dating system, which was adopted in England two hundred years after its introduction by the Scythian monk Dionysius.

The change has really been in force since the dawn of the 21st century and has seen BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) replacing Before Christ and Anno Domini. Despite some attempts to say that Christians had introduced differing terms themselves, the media gave voice to dissenters such as anthropologist Carol Delaney, who said the substitution is merely a euphemism concealing the political implications without modifying the actual source of contention.

Astrobiologist Duncan Steel argued that if BC and AD were to be changed then all aspects of the dating system should be changed, as all have a basis in religious beliefs. He rightly rejected secular arguments as selective against Christians.

I found it interesting that such changes had been made long ago in the communist nations such as China and those of the former USSR. The Muslim nations have also historically omitted any reference to Christ or Lord in their dating systems, and so have the followers of Aleister Crowley. Jewish academics of the mid-19th century first began to use the specific terms CE and BCE, and then in 1964 the Watchtower society started to use it exclusively in their publications! Any surprise that the Smithsonian gleefully followed suit?

So the UK, America and the rest of the West has aligned itself with communists, Islamists and cult followers by avoiding the chance of children asking what BC and AD stand for and thus any profession to their impressionable young minds that Jesus may be their Lord and Saviour, who has impacted even our dating system. Let's keep proclaiming the Christ and Lord that saved us from living in sin 24/7! No tinkering with dating systems will ever prevent the day of judgement from arriving!

The Bonds of Religiosity

Easter weekend turned out to be particularly eventful, with several interesting insights to add to my ministry quiver.

I was visiting a family, but as soon as I entered the door it became clear the demonic did not want a happy afternoon. One of the sons, long suffering from mental torment began to curse explicitly and I recognised the demonic straight away. I took him up stairs to a private place and pointed at him, saying that I was not addressing him personally but the unclean spirits that were influencing him.

When I looked him directly in the eyes and pointed they let me know their disapproval at the authority I was expressing. I laid on hands for deliverance after which there was a calm upon him, but I discerned this was more of a demonic influence than a direct possession. I was drawn of the Spirit to ask him where his room was and enter it. Upon opening the door I was met with a terrible sight - the room was in disgusting mess with newspapers, plastic bags and dirty washing covering the floor inches deep in place.

I told him we were going to clear it up together, whether he liked it or not. I gathered a small fortune in lost coins and had to kill several repulsive insects that had found a rather secure home. I pulled back the curtain to illuminate the squalor, telling him that if he was going to live for God he couldn't do it living like a pig. After making a good start on the room I left it to his brother to finish the job. I was told by my wife a few minutes after that the tormented man's mother had had a dream that morning that his brother would clean his room and their would be deliverance associated with it - praise God that I was the one to kick start the fulfilment of this only hours later!

After throwing out unclean newspapers, DVDs and CDs, I relayed to his parents that they had to make sure these things did not come into the house again. I talked to them about the scripture where an unclean spirit goes out of a man and tries to return to him with seven more wicked spirits, finding the place swept, but the doors wide open. We had physically cleaned, but for spiritual cleaning to be affective every door to the demonic had to be shut - otherwise those spirits would simply walk back in through the open doors of sin and uncleanness.

By the mother's answers I started to discern an injurious religiosity. She talked about the 'disciplines' that she had as a child, but dragging her unsaved sons to prayer at 6am would do nothing without conversion. She later wanted to pray for me, for God bringing me there to fulfil vision and start a healing process within the family, but as she laid on hands I knew that this was all the flesh and no Spirit. The woman had to have the last word on whatever I said, through religious pride, and now as she spoke in tongues of the flesh over me the back pain I woke with got worse (I later laid hands on  my self and received healing from it).

I now see that there will be no healing, spiritually or physically within that household until she repents of her religiosity. The devil loves to mock those who speak of deliverance but continue to live in covetousness, pride and rebellion, which is as witchcraft. My strategy on my next visit will be to address the religiosity immediately and give no room for the flesh - in that there will surely be mighty deliverance by relationship with God, not religion.

Holy Ghost Opportunities

We pray and we wait. Then we pray and wait some more. Then we pray some more and wait some more - we may even fast - but God has called us to an active faith. 

No one ever got anything from God without action; from Moses getting off his couch in Pharoah's house to Peter stepping out of the boat to meet his Lord, men and women of God are called to action.

There are Holy Ghost opportunities presenting themselves every single day of every single of our lives. A chance to share the Saviour, a chance to display the power of God to heal, or maybe a chance to speak a word to encourage or convict - everyday we have a chance to respond to God and labour while it is still day.

The other day I was sitting in my car at the supermarket with my wife and sister in-law and saw a lady walking in a lot of pain with a crutch. God immediately convicted me to go and minister to her, but I reasoned in the flesh that she was in a rush and wouldn't respond; again He prompted my heart. I told my wife and sister in-law to give me a minute, as I got out of the car and went after her.

By the time I was out of the car she had met up with her family and I knew I had missed it. Oh what God could have done to set her free and establish a witness in her heart  - I've seen it countless times before. Lord help me to never miss an opportunity again because the flesh has been overfed. If we feed the Spirit then any time those opportunities come it will simply be too strong for the flesh to resist (Read Galatians 5:17).

Australopithecus Afarensis' Funny Footed Cousin?

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The Daily Mail reports that a newly discovered fossilised foot has revealed a 'previously unknown human species' that lived three and a half million years ago.

The Darwinist media circus continues to churn out logical fallacies that stand for discoveries of great scientific importance. Now they have found the foot bones of a monkey and claim that it was an upright human ancestor that spent some time on  the ground, but not as much as the soon to evolve australopithecus, who found much more joy in swinging down from the trees for extended periods to be chased by lions.

A key point here is that finding bones in the dirt tells you nothing. Dates have to be assigned arbitrarily from the world view of the discoverer and the geologic column, made up of dates pulled from the thin air in the 1830s - there are no tags to tell you when it died or what it was. Then if it happens to just be a few bones you have to imagine the rest of the creature according as much to how you want it to look, as to what the few bones can tell you about its general structure - imagine finding the back end of a duckbill platypus and  presuming that it looked like a small beaver at the front.

Besides all the usual evolutionary propaganda blurb, Daniel Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, was incredibly honest for a Darwinist saying 'The limitations of the fossil record leave ample room for debate about human origins'. Of course, he simply means debate between evolutionists about different ideas they want to pursue grant money with. If only he had the open-mindedness to mean that the limitations of finding bones in the ground means you can never empirically state anything about the distant past unless you were there.

As ridiculous as it was to say Lucy was anything but an ape that spent the majority of her time in the trees pales in comparison to finding JUST A FEW FOOT BONES and saying it was a 'hominin', human ancestor. The fact that these foot bones show an opposable toe make its even more ridiculous - I think that after all these years they have actually found Lucy's feet!

So how do we know its 3.4 million years old (say 'oooooooh!')? Because Dr Yohannes Haile-Selassie, of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History said it is. Wouldn't it be great if radiocarbon dating worked, let alone stretched back that far, and we could see that this poor monkey was happily swinging in the trees when the flood came?*

*Don't believe in/deny the global flood about 4400 years ago? See www.answersingenesis.org or www.icr.org.

Woe unto Hypocrites

The other day I was sitting in my car when I saw a woman very unsteady on her feet. She looked to be in her late thirties or early forties, but was walking like an old woman with a stick.

My heart went out to her in compassion, but I was aware that I didn't have much time due to running errands the day before a friend's wedding. My heart was stirred up though, and I called out the window to ask her if she was a Christian. She said "No! And I don't want to be!" - I of course couldn't leave her to say that, so I jumped out and asked her why she didn't want to be a Christian. She told me that she used to go to church with her mother, but that churches are full of hypocrites that smile in your face in church but ignore you on the street - the bitterness within her was so tangible as she spoke.

I told her that not all churches were full of hypocrites and that there was a lovely church (our church) around the corner that would genuinely welcome her. I told her that people may let her down, but Jesus never will because He's perfect. I said if she came that she'd have a friend and told her my name. Her frown turned to a smile and she thanked me and went on her way. I went back to my car and immediately cried out to God for her soul. I could see by faith that if she came out she would be completely healed of that crippling arthritis.

Glory to our sweet Saviour for that Holy Ghost appointment, but I have thought since that there is great condemnation for hypocrites who drive wounded and lost souls away from the love of God and the salvation in Christ they so desperately need.

Say What?

According to an Oxford university scholar, the 'hardest problem in  science' is showing itself to be the origin of language. In 1886, The Linguistic Society of Paris famously banned all debates on the subject.

Since evolutionists think that their 'evolution of man' timeline is so water-tight, what's the problem with the evolution of man's speech? Surely there must be some DNA analysis, some radiocarbon dating, some bones or some observation of apes that makes it as clear as day - after all, the whole world is so sure that man most definitely, undeniably (and un-test-ably) descended from them.

There are two schools of thought: continuity and discontinuity - either a gibbering monkey managed to say 'b', then 'ba', and then thousands of generations later 'banana', or suddenly after thousands of years of hominid silence someone suddenly burst into a full-blown language and someone else also instantly developed the ability to understand it. Yes, I know it sounds silly, but if you start out with believing that everything made itself then you will end up with some pretty bizarre conclusions.

The thing is apes look a little bit like us - they have arms and legs and can walk upright for short periods of time - so they were the best candidate for those who want to deny God to point to as our ancestors. I mean who would have believed it if they pointed to an elephant? A monkey losing its hair, strength and tree climbing ability to survive is just so much more plausible. But monkeys don't talk. Not even close*. They gibber because they don't have the biological structures to produce words or the mind to do it. Monkeys deceive each other all the time, and therefore all the other monkeys are programmed by this to act on nothing that is not immediately verifiable. There is just no room for abstract things such as words - any time another monkey wanted to say 'oo-ah' for banana instead of just pointing to it, the other monkey would disregard it to protect himself from those naughty other monkeys trying to deceive him - I mean it was obvious it was a snake not a banana!

Displaced references - those that have no relation to the immediately perceivable surroundings have no place in Darwinism. In fact, words themselves have no place as symbolism has no place without a culture that already has mutual understanding of socially endorsed, symbolic cultural facts. They cannot be trusted amongst animals that need inherent value and meaning in communication for their survival. To put this simply, if all the monkeys haven't got together and decided that 'wah-wah' now means banana and that it is okay to use a newly invented sound by arbitrarily assigning it to an object then there is no way within Darwinism or any other secular theory of origins for language to come about.

The Bible has the answers, yet again. In the beginning was The WORD! Language has its origins with a transcendent, intelligent creator that injected it into His creation. God is spirit and to express Himself in a limited, physical creation it took symbolism and abstract meaning. When he made man in His image He made him for fellowship, and that took an ability for Adam to express Himself and converse, and in conversing, understand what he could of his almighty Creator.

*I think God made parrots such great speakers just to make Darwinism look stupid. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N'kisi

Unequal Marriage 'Consultation'

I just finished filling in a survey on the UK Home Office website. It was apparently supposed to be part of a consultation on the proposed new legislation to make same-sex marriage legal. The only thing is 'Equalities Minister' Lynne Featherstone has already said that the legislation will go through regardless of the outcome of the consultation - what ever happened to democracy?

She said 'I believe that if a couple love each other and want to commit to a life together, they should have the option of a civil marriage, whatever their gender'. I can't believe that someone with such a prominent position can make such an ignorant statement, but then again, we are living in the most godless generation this country has ever seen. 'Love' has no legal definition and the use of the term has no place in law, being as unquantifiable and indefinable as it is. So why is Featherstone saying such things?

Legally, if someone cannot meet the terms of the law then they are breaking it and must make whatever personal changes necessary to comply. In the post-modern and secular humanist society we find ourselves in, it seems the law has to be the one to change to suit the whims of the non-compliant few. So what if a grown woman loves a boy? Or a man professes love for his sister? Well in a few years time this society might have become just warped enough to also change the law to suit their 'love'.

"But it is harmful and destructive to society for tantamount paedophilia and incest to take place" I hear you cry - but a homosexual lifestyle is just as harmful to society. First of all it is harmful to the individual - homosexuals are four times as likely to abuse drugs or alcohol, have huge suicide rates and only a small percentage will ever make it over 60 due to the inordinate number of premature deaths. Add to this damage caused to the human body from unnatural use and you have one of the most damaging lifestyles imaginable. If you knew someone was living a lifestyle that was going to knock 30 years off their life expectancy wouldn't you want to warn them away from it?

Secondly, it is harmful to society as a whole as homosexuals are notoriously promiscuous and any 'marriages' will have a high chance of failure, causing fractured relationships, bitterness and hatred and the spread of STDS, HIV and AIDS. Spiritually there is also a curse on a homosexual society as it shuns the order of God and takes up its own perverted passions as described in Romans chapter one. I really wish I could expose all these left-wing extremists in power to the ravages of homosexual lifestyles and see how their rabid secularism would hold up against the ghastly facts.

The Football Curse

As news headlines are filled with the plight of Fabrice Muamba, I couldn't help but think about the inordinate numbers of players that either collapse, or collapse and die while playing soccer.

Football is definitely a demanding sport, but when you compare it to marathon running, boxing or triathlon, you realise that the sporting world holds many more gruelling challenges. I wish Fabrice a speedy recovery - this is in no way an attack against him (he is in fact an acquaintance of a friend) - but as I was at my in-laws and watched Liverpool vs Stoke City in an FA Cup clash I couldn't help but notice something disturbing.

Football, the most popular game in the world, has become a false religion. On Saturdays and sometimes Sundays, millions around the world gather in their 'churches' and sing praise and worship songs to the god of football. Yesterday, as I had come from church service, I saw that the Liverpool and Stoke fans were having theirs. They started to sing Oh When the Saints Go Marching In - an old hymn. They also sing 'Glory Glory Man United' - another modified hymn. Men around the world have given their money, emotions, and time up to the god of football. Lifting their hands in worship they pledge their lives to something that matters little in the light of this life, let alone eternity.

I cannot see this as any less than a strategy of hell. The Kingdom of God needs men to see it continue to advance, but as the men of this world have given themselves to football worship churches remain filled with women. Though it may be ostensibly secular, football worship has all the marks of a religion - sectarianism, tribalism, a place of gathering, liturgical practices such as singing national anthems and modified hymns and most of all, having control over someone's emotions to the point of encouraging into violence and driving to despair. Football fans have killed each other and themselves over their 'support' of teams.

All this acts to dull their ears to truth, and if you wanted any more proof for a demonic strategy its right there. Church folks are not immune to this either - I have sat at a table where we were about to study the Word of God, only to have two bible study leaders obsessing over the 'results'. The Word was on my mind, and all the more considering the setting we were in, but there's was on football. There are levels, and following sport is not sin, but it can prove to be a real distraction as the spirit of false religion takes a hold.

In conclusion, I think there is a curse on fanatical support of football, both to those who support and those who play. Not a curse on sport or that sport in particular, but a curse and judgement against the spirit of idolatry. Wikipedia has a list of 84 players that have died on the pitch, or soon after leaving it, while playing league football since the end of the 19th century. That averages as one player dying while playing league football every 1.45 years. On this calculation, playing football should be categorised as a potentially lethal pursuit akin to BASE-jumping.

I will leave the judgement to the reader, but I think that idolatry in all forms is cursed. Whether it is ostensibly religious or secular, replacing God with anything else on the throne of your heart is tantamount to dancing around a totem pole babbling. Doing it in such an outrageous way as paying men thousands of pounds a week to kick a leather ball through a metal frame while two thirds of the world is in poverty and as many are going to hell without Christ is certainly skating on thin ice. Man was made to worship, and for the secularisation of this nation and the love of sin, football stadiums have become the new age church. Just look at the picture above! It looks like a Billy Graham crusade! Christians guard your hearts...

Red Deer Cave People or Red Deer Cave Apes?

A new set of bones is now doing the proverbial rounds on the Darwinist circuit. Dubbed the Red Deer Cave People, this latest collection is apparently causing a 're-think' of how another type of hominid was in East Asia other than 'modern' man at the time the bones are purported to date from.

Hold on a second, nothing can't explode! Okay, lets grant the secular humanist his Big Bang (big dud), and his impossible formation of the elements from hydrogen and helium, and the impossibilities of abiogenesis etc etc etc. That granted, what can your really tell from bones in the ground? They don't come with a date tag or a description of who they were and how they got there. That all has to be shoe-horned into a pre-existing world view. Unfortunately for the popular scientific press, that world view is invariably Darwinism.

But lets look at the bones: we have a skull appearing in pictures which is a partial reconstruction due to parts being missing. The lower mandible of the skull being presented is missing; so is the complete rear-portion (occipital bun). The  right side from the upper mandible to the bottom of the frontal lobe is also missing, but has been reconstructed in plaster. What we have is robust skull that has very large and ape-like ocular recesses (orbit). There is also a remarkable cheek bone flare, reminiscent of a male Orang Utan and suggesting a powerful and wide jaw.

What is disappointing is the fact that the reconstructed orbit on the right side has been purposely made smaller to appear more human-like - if you look closely you can see an obvious difference in the original orbit and the reconstruction. I could put it down to incompetence on the part of the person who carried out the plaster moulding if I did not know this was making international news and the fact that I have seen such tricks from evolutionists before. A cursory glance at the illustrations in Donald Johanson's book Lucy reveals such unscientific doctoring - when presenting a line of supposed human ancestors, they are all given a modern human pelvis!

Something revealing with this current 'find' is the fact that the most recent of the discoveries of this particular 'hominid' were uncovered in 1989! Did it really take over twenty years to report on this smashed ape skull? Methinks that someone needed their tenure renewing or a new shot of grant money, and so something that was probably long disregarded was resurrected for financial gain. This wouldn't be the first time - remember Ida? What's next? Make sure the carbon dates that didn't fit into the paradigm are safely discarded and start promoting the book!

Coincidental Correlations?

Correlations

As British society continues to spiral down into insanity, any empirical commentator cannot ignore some stark positive correlations.


As teenage pregnancy, STDs, abortion, gang violence, truancy, violent crime, divorce etc has risen at an alarming rate since the 1960s, so marriage, discipline in schools and the home, academic ambition, community cohesion and safety on the streets has taken a dive for the worse - there was a time when you knew every neighbour on your street by their first name and you could leave your door unlocked. You were married and so were most other couples, and your children were born into a family unit. As those children grew they didn't start talking rap slang and being disrespectful to you; they neither went to school with that attitude. They weren't sexually active until they were married, and AIDS and STDs were unheard of.


In truth, we would have to rewind to before the second world war to see all that on a regular basis, but the real crux was from 1957 onwards, when prime minister Harold Macmillan told a Conservative rally "Most of our people have never had it so good." People have it even better now, with a benefit society that invites leeches from not only its own nation, but from around the world to live at the convenience of the tax payer. Pupils have no fear of teachers whose hands have been tied behind their back, neither do they of parents who could be reported to social services in a breath. Or should I say worse...


Three correlations that cannot be denied are these: the flooding of millions into the teaching of the theory of evolution, declining church attendance and the attempted extermination of any sign of Christianity. Extreme left-wing advocates, many of whom held and hold positions of power and influence, have conspired against the godly heritage of the nation, in what the former archbishop of Canterbury called 'cultural vandalism'. David Cameron's insane campaign against the sanctity of marriage is just the latest.


The generations growing up since the 1960s have been pumped full of materialism, naturalism, relativism and hedonism. From being taught they are amongst the animals in biology class, to going home and being told by the idiot-box that new laws mean neither a teacher or a parent can physically discipline them, to continuing in front of that idiot-box as it feeds them with the desires of the leftists and liberals at the helm of the media corporations that fill them with lust and covetousness. 


'Old-fashioned', 'out-dated', 'right-wing' and 'narrow-minded' have become synonyms for righteousness in this antichrist generation. If only people would remember that those 'old-fashioned' days didn't suffer from half the plagues of our modern society. If Winston Churchill tried to rise up today he would be called a bigot, a war-monger and a racist before he even got into public office. Perhaps our country's greatest leader, he famously said that slavery would not cease in the world as long as Muslims treated their wives as commodities. Meanwhile in modern Britain, Labour opened the door to shed loads of Muslims to gain their votes, ignoring how cursed their own countries were by their religion. But then again, if you want to destroy the Christian faith there is few better ways than to import the single most destructive religion on the face of the earth.


David Cameron hypocritically stood up in a church and said that the country needs to return to biblical values, simply to contradict himself completely with his drive to marry homosexuals. Maybe if he had the cojones to identify the broken society with a fractured heritage then he may have some validity. 

A Prediction for the Coming Months and Years

Some very interesting events are happening on the world stage which are all pointing towards the fulfilment of ancient prophecy. But no matter how old those prophecies may be, up until the present day, every prediction has proved flawless.

We are on the brink of a war in the Middle East that will make the War of Independence, the Six-Day war, Yom Kippur and the two gulf wars pail in comparison. To ostensibly prop up the failing economies of the West, military action will be proposed against a nuclear Iran, but this will be vetoed in every available forum by a Russia led by the newly re-elected Putin, who will speak strong words against any military intervention.

While Western powers mull over what to do with an obstinate Russia, Iran will attack Israel with North African support from the 'liberated' victors of the Arab Spring. Russia will be far from spectators, but at the forefront of the military initiative and supplying weapons and strategic support to Iran, Libya and the other Arab allies. Turkey will also surprise the West by joining the attack, letting its anti-Semitic sentiments boil over into dreams of an Ottoman resurrection.

While the West looks on, God will deliver Israel supernaturally. If Israel getting within 60 miles of Cairo and 25 miles of Damascus at the end of the fourth Arab-Israeli war was miracle, then the whole world will be shaken at the deliverance displayed by the fulfilment of Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. This is a war that has never happened, but is lining up right now. The amazing thing is that it seems from the recorded words of Ezekiel 2600 years ago, that Israel will launch a nuclear attack.

As more events unfold, I will add further comments framing those events in the context of biblical prophecy.

Being Scripturally Frank

I was passing through the Camden Road area yesterday and thought I might pay a visit to Amy Winehouse's former home out of interest.

It was fairly easy to spot in Camden Square, as the house with a large black privacy fence. Just across the road from it was a tree that had become a makeshift memorial to the late singer. Having identified it, I determined to come back and have a look at what had been left in tribute. The idea then struck me to post a scripture there. It saddened me when she passed away, at the same age as myself at the time, just 27 years old. I thought that the words of Jesus from Matthew 11:28 - "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" - would be particularly poignant, knowing that if I prayed over this gesture that someone reading it could find hope to escape the burdens that plagued Amy.

I was saddened to find out later that day that she had been trying to get off the drugs and alcohol, going cold turkey with her alcoholism. I had been told by a former alcoholic a few weeks ago that you simply cannot do that with alcohol. Reading a newspaper report on-line, I read her father relaying the fact that she ignored the doctor's orders to wean herself slowly off and had gone all out, leading to her death. There was something, or rather someone, missing in that equation: her burden had no where to go. If you are heavy laden then you need to come to Jesus, as the Pilgrim did, and find your rest from sin as He takes your burdens away and gives you His rest of forgiveness.

Bringing the Lord to a Lord

I attended a book launch last night at the Hilton hotel in Euston. I don't live the 'high life' in a worldly sense - this was a first for me - so I was very interested to see how things would go.

I was there by association rather than merit, as my wife works for the author's son. The book itself seems interesting, and I was happy to receive a signed copy prior to the event. It is called The Economics of Killing by Vijay Mehta, and it links globalization with the pursuit of military conflict, indicting the West as an entity fuelled by neo-colonialist ambition. But, I am not a literary critic, so I was purely there by invitation and to observe all the goings on to fuel my reserves of information as a minister.

I was interested to see Lord Frank Judd present, taking time out of his busy schedule to stamp his approval. I was waiting in the lobby as he entered, and was completely oblivious to the hunched-over old man that trundled in with suitcase in tow. He had to leave early to catch a train back to his home in the North, and I thought I might take the opportunity to share Christ with him. I gave him some time to reach the exit and then sprang out of my seat, hot in pursuit of an interesting witness.

I caught him on the stairs and offered help to carry his suitcase down, asking if I could walk with him. As we walked he turned to me and said "...and who are you?" I mentioned my tenuous connection, and then asked him if when he passed away he thought Heaven would be his home. He seemed shocked by the proposition and asked me to repeat myself; I repeated again, did he think he would make Heaven? He told me that he was hard of hearing, and asked me to write to him at the House of Lords with whatever I was proposing. I asked him if the letter would reach him and he assured me it would. He said that I had better get back to the event as that is what I had come for, and since he was rushing for a train I thought it best not to harass him any further but to take him up on his offer.

Amazing how he had heard everything I had said - up until I challenged him on eternity. It was as if he simply couldn't hear what I was saying. I have witnessed that when deaf ears are prayed for. Everything can be heard except 'the blood of Jesus' - it is as if there is some spiritual force shutting the person off to the words that have the power to deliver them - and by the Bible's description of spirits of infirmity, we know that to be true.

I will be writing that letter to Lord Judd today, praying over it and sending it post-haste. It will be as clear as day and no train to catch or selective hearing will stop him from enjoying the full blessing of the Good News.

Powerful Healing Testimony (Holy Ghost Appointments Part 2)

As I mentioned in a previous post, on Monday I was led of God to an elderly man suffering from prostate problems.


I called this dear gentleman up yesterday on the number he gave me, and he testified to me that for the first time in two years he was able to be out the whole day without needing the toilet constantly! He said he did not know if it was God or something physical, but I said "Mr Rahman, that was a miracle!" He invited me around for breakfast the next morning.

This morning I had breakfast with Mr Rahman, and got to hear his life story and answer his questions regarding religion and Christ. He questioned how Christianity continues on from Judaism and I explained the prophecies concerning the Messiah and the promise that in Abraham all the nations of the world would be blessed. When he said he didn't know which really was God, out of the world religions, I mentioned the fact that in Mark 16 it says that the Lord worked with the Apostles, confirming the word with signs following and that his healing was confirmation of the reality of Christ.

I had to leave, but I promised Mr Rahman I would return and left my contact details if he wanted to ask any more questions or know how to receive salvation in Jesus. I felt that seeds were sown which will be reaped later and I will be praying for him earnestly until my next visit by the grace of God.

What a joy to be walking in the footsteps of great men of God such as Smith Wigglesworth and laying a hold of the power we have to see the sick healed and a witness for Christ established!

Putin in Power Points to Prophecy

The world is well aware that a tearful Vladimir Putin recently announced that he had won the Russian presidential election 'to the glory of Russia', but what the world is not aware of is what this means to biblical prophecy and the timeline of last days events.

Ezekiel chapter 38-39 gives us a picture of an attack against Israel that has never happened. This was given to the prophet as a vision of a last days war that would lead to God pouring out His delivering power, and it is thus conjectured that this could lead to a last days revival as the miracle of God's deliverance is plainly manifest to the nations.

A chief player in this scenario is referred to as Gog of Magog. Magog has historically been identified as referring to Russia, and the fact that Gog is named as the chief prince of Meshech (Moscow) and Tubal (Tobolsk) lends weight to this. The Gog is a tsar-like figure that leads a confederate of nations, including Iran, Turkey and the North African nations against Israel. Vladimir Putin has emerged as such a figure, with accusations of vote rigging adding to his dictator-in-the-making credentials.

He has stated in interviews that the fall of the Soviet Union was the greatest tragedy of the 20th century and his intent to form a confederation he calls the EU - the Eastern Union. This is little more than a rehashed plan to resurrect the USSR under the auspices of modern pan-European politics. With a six year reign ahead of him, it is a high possibility that the events leading to the fulfilment of Ezekiel 38/39 are about to kick off, and you can bet a newly 'liberated' Libya, a diplomatically-severed Turkey and a nuclear Iran are not going to be far from the action.

If you aren't right with God now is really the time to be as you begin to witness a world-wide crisis that the West will do little more than stand back and throw verbal condemnation at.

A Day of Holy Ghost Appointments

Tomorrow is my birthday, but I felt like it was today. God just gifted me a wonderful day with not just one, but two Holy Ghost appointments.

First I was at a train station several miles from where I live and fellowship, when I saw a lady struggling to carry a buggy down the stairs with a small child. I asked if she needed help, and she gladly received it. As I was carrying it down the stairs for her I noticed her speaking Swahili on the phone. It is not a usual language to hear in London, so I asked where she was from in Swahili and she replied Tanzania. That is when a sense of recognition hit both of us - she asked if I went to church in Walthamstow and I said yes.

It turned out this was a lady I knew that visits the UK rarely, who is the sister of a lady who used to attend our church. I met her once, but she returned to Tanzania shortly before her sister also returned to live there. We both knew this was much more than a coincidence, since God has called me to preach the gospel over in that beautiful land. She asked me when me and my wife would be coming, and by the grace of God that will be within the next few years.

The second event happened just after I had left a coffee shop where I was reading Apostle of Faith (Smith Wigglesworth's biography). Stirred by one of the best reads outside of the Word of God, I said "Lord, give me a sick person". Now that is a fair enough prayer, but I was in the middle of the richest place in the country at the time, Hampstead. Woe unto the rich because nothing kills faith like being able to depend on your own resources. Yet immediately to my left was an elderly Asian man unsteady on his feet. I asked him if there was any pain in his body, but he said he had none and even had all his own teeth! For 82 he did look quite well, but then he said that he was suffering from problems with his prostate.

Cancer was a possibility and as tears began to roll he said that he just wanted to be like a normal person. I asked if he believed in Jesus and he said he did, so as he put his hand out I took it and started to pray for that dear old gentleman. Mr Rahman gave me his number and I promised to give him a call to see how he was doing. I went off down the road lifting my hands in praise to the Lord that had given my such grace this day.

As an addition, I walked up onto the Heath to find a place to pray and eat my lunch. After praying I saw out the corner of the eye some little dogs walking towards me. Now me and my wife find little dogs very amusing with their personality, expressions and looks, so when one of the little fellows got his lead caught around the bench I was sitting on and ended up at my feet looking up at me, with almost a smile on his face, I had to laugh.

I felt the victory that he seemed to have as I patted him on the head! What a fantastic day in the Lord!

Collecting Rocks and other Incredibly Brilliant Abilities of Consciousness

Sorry, I have to mock a bit on this one. I was reminded recently of a story that every evolutionist under the sun jumped on with glee when it first came to the media's attention.

Santino is a fairly ordinary chimp. He likes to swing around and gibber, and he smells like a sweaty hog in a mire, but he also has a brilliant ability that puts him on par with, well, chimps. Santino, who is a 31 year old banana lover housed at Furuvik zoo in Sweden, likes to collect rocks so that when those gawking tourists come to bang on the glass and laugh at him he can throw them in self-defence against the appalling affronts of those pesky humans.

Rock throwing is a typical behaviour of apes, but the geniuses at the journal Current Biology noticed that Santino collects the rocks before the visitors arrive. They lauded this example of Einstein-level monkey brilliance with these words: "These observations convincingly show that our fellow apes do consider the future in a complex way...It implies that they have a highly developed consciousness, including the lifelike mental simulations of potential events."

The other day I saw an equally brilliant human relative bury food, using his highly developed consciousness to simulate the potential event of him being hungry again. He chose a tree to climb with his own sentient will, and then used incredible skill to dig a hole and bury his carefully chosen selection of food item. My wallet was glad that I didn't have to travel to Africa to witness this, but down the local park, Mr. Nuts the squirrel was providing the type of quality scientific observation that professional scientists need thousands in grant money to achieve.

Another brilliant near-relative of humans, and undoubtedly one that branched off very recently from our evolutionary lineage due to its incredible skill, manages to do this: "The _____ of Africa build apartment-house nests, in which 100 to 300 pairs have separate flask-shaped chambers entered by tubes at the bottom." Imagine travelling to darkest East Africa and witnessing this human ancestor, in the 'cradle of humanity', utilising its incredible fore-planning abilities and highly developed consciousness to select just the right materials to construct elaborate nests by the hundreds, differing very little from each other - I mean a chimp can just about pile grass and sticks on the ground to sleep!

Oh, sorry, my field workers tell me that it was actually the work of weaver birds and not a bipedal ape on his way to conducting the London Philharmonic. You just have to see the Darwinist paradigm that blinds such researchers as Current Biology to the wonders of creation. God gave the weaver bird an ability to skilfully weave that no ape will ever attain to, and it doesn't need consciousness to do it - God put the intelligence and ability in there. An ape can collect rocks and wait for its human targets to turn up, God also injected that intelligence into its being, but a chimp is no more 'conscious' than any other animal that conducts relatively complex activities. Also no ape can make vocalisations anything like human speech, but parrots can.

There are too many questions to ask and points to make for one article, but suffice to say that evolution theory is a hindrance to science and objective observation. If its a chimp doing something a bit above the average level then its a sign of them being like us, but if a bird or a squirrel does something displaying intelligence no one cares. Just fits too much into believing in a a transcendent, intelligent creator who gave order and design to the universe and all of his creatures.

Think About It

Those who argue for naturalistic origins and development of the universe we live in need to have a think.

If chance in its many expressions started and guided the formation of all that we see today - from binary star systems to obligate symbionts - then the universe would indeed contain no true thought or reason. We could subjectively assign appearances of thought or reason, but would have to concede that things can simply make themselves and guide their own development by surfing the algorithms of blind chance.

Did you get that? We use our thoughts and reasoning to say that no thought or reason went into the universe! People come up with intellectually neotanised theories like Darwinism through their ability to think and reason - albeit through a convoluted mess of contradiction and logical fallacies. The very autonomous abilities of our mind show that indeed thought and reason exists in the universe, and to get that you need a transcendent expresser; someone had to inject our consciousness into creation.

I don't know how much longer Darwinites and Dawkinsites can go on telling us why they think everything evolved, while neglecting to tell us the nuts and bolts of how it evolved. To do that you have to by-pass logic and the empiricism of mathematics and delve into the realms of mathematical impossibility and logical fallacies. As David Berlinski put it, there is a definite slide down the scale of intelligibility from mathematics, to mathematical physics, to evolutionary biology. If only people would think about why they can think...

Further reading: www.drdino.com, www.creationtoday.org, www.icr.org, www.answersingenesis.org.

Testimony from Kibera

Of the many breathtaking miracles of healing we witnessed in Kibera, one stands out in particular.

As I ministered on the final night of the crusade in the heart of Africa's largest slum we called for the sick to come forward. Seeing around 60 people respond to the call for salvation was enough, but then to have about 20 people also come up on stage to be prayed for was amazing. There was such a simple faith in God's power to heal and a reverence for a man of God that sees the bondages of sickness broken by the stripes of our smitten Lord.

A young lady of perhaps early twenties came up on stage who had partial hearing and oozing from her left ear for 13 years. That's a long time to be sick, but as the man at the pool of Bethesda and the man at the gate Beautiful, she was about to have her appointment with the great Physician. We laid on hands and prayed and that wonderful smile that comes over the face of someone touched of God appeared as she testified that her ear had opened!

I was sad to have to jump off the platform and go back to the baptist mission to collect our luggage and head to the airport. I could have had that every night easily; even as a spectator. By the grace of God me and my faithful wife will be heading to East Africa one day to see such miracles and salvation on a regular basis!

Power Present to Heal

Luke 5:17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them


This Saturday gone we were on the streets once again to witness and promote our event 'Poetic Justice'. A good crowd gathered as the CYA (Christ Youth Alliance) presented drama and dance, and standing their talking to one of our evangelists I noticed a young boy going about on crutches.

I could see from his general mobility and joy that this was a temporary injury - he flew around on those crutches with the confidence of someone who knows once they're better they'll be flying around even faster. My heart was immediately burdened for him, knowing that child-like faith can see great miracles, and I went over to ask him how he ended up on crutches. Anthony told me that he is a keen skateboarder and after a friend dared him £20 to do a particularly difficult trick he ended up falling and dislocating his knee (the friend still gave him the £20!). I suggested we pray and that God would heal him.

He told me that his leg hurt when he stretched it out, but after a simple prayer of faith and laying hands on that knee an unmistakable smile of joy came across his face as he declared to me 'it doesn't hurt any more!' As I told him that Jesus had healed him he shouted 'I'm going to tell my mum' and flew off to find his mum in the market place. Although I didn't see that dear young man at the event that night, I can see the joy he would have had as he declared the works of the Lord to an astonished mother! Hallelujah!

To top that off we saw five souls saved that night! God is good and Jesus is sweeter every day!

Revival in Kenya

Just got back from an unforgettable trip to Kenya.

Too much to really express, but the highlight for me was getting to preach and pray for the sick in Kibera, a city within a city in Nairobi and Africa's largest slum. 1.5 million people live in poverty, but despite this and maybe because of this, there is a huge response to the gospel there.

After holding pastors seminars in Nakuru and a Wednesday night crusade in the slums there we travelled back to Nairobi and The Door church at Kibera for Saturday and Sunday night crusades, which had begun mid-week. My pastor preached at the church building in the morning, where I was able to give my testimony, and then we headed to the Kibera slums for the evening.

I prayed for many sick people, who were all healed and I would say over 60 people answered the altar call. In total 430 souls were saved during the crusade - powerful! It really is happening in Kenya and I've always felt it's the most fruitful place in the world.

More stories to come, but my heart truly is stirred for this nation and pray God would have me be a missionary in East Africa one day.

Mungu akubariki!

Stephen Hawking's Favourite Fairy Stories & Other Tales...

It is funny how selectively blind the world is to reason and logic. It is funnier how the people that they exalt perpetuate and entrench such blindness. Or not so funny.

One would hope that Hawking et al would open the door of their hearts to objective consideration considering terminal illness, no matter how long they eventually live. Unfortunately Professor Hawking shows no sign of following suit of many great thinkers throughout history and applying his mind to all the glaring observations of science that necessitate a creator.

He said this in a May 2011 interview: "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail...There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark".

Well, this of course begs the question of who made the computer? The truth is the brain is infinitely more complex than a man-made computer. Before Professor Hawking disputes the existence of a soul, immortality of the soul, or a place of existence of the immortal soul, he must of course first explain the naturalistic origins of the brain - which he cannot do. It is incredibly puerile to say those who believe in or have experienced heaven hold to a fairy story. One could easily point to Hawking's faulty analogy of the inorganic, man-made computer and the organic, logical product of an higher intelligence than man as a 'fairy story'.

This excerpt also caught my attention: 'When asked what is the value of knowing why we are here, Hawking replied , "The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations directly in the abstract. We need to use the effective theory of Darwinian natural selection of those societies most likely to survive. We assign them higher value". I use my scientific prerogative and beg to differ. If you are a secular humanist/Darwinist then there is no value to being here what so ever, as value itself is an abstract concept that a naturalistic universe cannot determine.

If Hawking was the great Physicist that is he is held-up to be, then he should clearly see that Darwinism is not effective, sufficient to explain origins or a good historical gauge of what is generally accepted as valuable by civilised people. Neither is the universe governed by 'science' - it is governed by the providence of God through the laws He has put in place - by 'science' Hawking is means the secular humanist world-view. He could easily have said it is governed by 'nature' or God, but he wants to sound authoritative and empirical and definitely not like a theist. Unfortunately he is far from empiricist; as happened to Peter, his speech betrays him.

He says that "science tells us we can't solve the equations directly in the abstract", but the real statement here is that his pre-conceived secular humanist world-view won't allow him to employ logic or true empiricism, like mathematics. Looking at incredibly complex design and pointing to a transcendent designer is just too 'abstract' for old Stephen. Yet he is not quite empirical enough to crunch the numbers and see that mathematical law rules out unguided naturalistic origins for the universe and its complexity.

Then, either in foolish bravado or a drunken stupor, he bursts out of the Trojan horse of Darwinism and hits the nail on the head. If evolutionists decide, for coherence of argument, that there is such an 'abstract' concept as value then it has to be determined through the cracked, warped and wrongly prescribed lens of Darwinism. Indeed, the value lies in 'higher animals'. Sorry, didn't mean to quote from Mein Kampf, but for brevity's sake it seemed just the point that Hawking was making.

So here we have it, Hawking as Dawkins, as Hitchens as Huxley, doesn't believe in the God he is going to stand before and an eternal destination for his soul (I think for an old sinner it would be better to 'reason' against hell). But he is frank enough to also reveal that the beliefs he holds to lead him to think that the West is of more value than the Two-Thirds world, an over-fed British child is of more value than a starving African one and value can arbitrarily be assigned based on the opinion of a man who believes he is ultimately accountable to no one outside himself.

Well done, world, another of your geniuses manages to kick his own tonsils into touch.