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Saving the planet? It’s God’s house that needs rebuilding By UK Correspondent, Charles Gardner Partly to deflect attention from an increasingly perplexing Covid crisis, Boris Johnson no doubt hoped to inject a breath of fresh air with extravagant promises of wind power. Within 10 years, every home will be energised […]
Elijah contest with Baal prophets now on a global scale By UK Correspondent, Charles Gardner The crisis over President Trump’s Covid diagnosis serves to highlight the growing divergence between God-fearers and those in rebellion against their Creator. I even heard in my spirit, ‘the Beast has been released’, but I […]
We are surrounded by ‘a great cloud of witnesses’ (Heb 12.1) As Christians fight battles on several fronts – not only with Covid, but from increasing attempts to shut down their voice – courage is the great need of the hour. There can surely be few better examples of this […]
The modern state of Israel has come to accept accusations of wickedness and opposition to building as a way of life. Basically, nothing has changed since the days of Ezra nearly 2 500 years ago. Just as now, with unlikely allies such as the United Arab Emirates, ancient Israel had […]
By Charles Gardner — UK Correspondent Amidst all the talk about the ethnicity of Jesus – whether black, white or somewhere in between – many choose to ignore the fact that He is Jewish. The debate around our Lord’s skin colour, arising out of the Black Lives Matter protests, has […]
By United Kingdom Correspondent Charles Gardner We appear to be approaching yet more choppy waters in Israel’s turbulent history. The Jewish state’s proposed “annexation” of the Jordan Valley, along with parts of Judea and Samaria – otherwise known as the West Bank despite being the heart of ancient Israel – […]
When the Holy Spirit was poured out on Jews from across the known world at Pentecost, it was not meant to be a one-off, as is widely claimed today. Both Gentiles and Jews still need that power – along with all the gifts of the Spirit, including tongues. And for […]
Anyone tempted to grumble about restrictions under the coronavirus pandemic would do well to be reminded of the conditions under which Jews were forced into hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Perhaps the most famous account concerns that of 13-year-old Anne Frank, who was locked with her family […]
Some of us were discussing the weaknesses of the Western church the other day – on Zoom of course. And I think there was general agreement that shortage of prayer and of the power of the Holy Spirit were right up there among causes. It’s worth noting that the Day […]
By Charles Gardner, UK Correspondent With the Covid-19 pandemic in danger of blinding us to every other significant development in the world, we have been jolted back to reality over another crisis that has lingered unresolved for decades. The conflict in the Middle East has continued unabated amidst a global […]