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...