Seventy Times Seven

Do you remember learning your times tables at school? ‘Two times two is four, three times two is six, four times two is eight…’ In the days before electronic calculators took the strain, the combination of daily classroom sing songs and homework repetition rooted the...

NEW DAYS COMING OR MORE FALSE DAWNS?

There have been at least three very significant events in the past month that, taken together, may – repeat may – prove to be a watershed in the current quagmire that is politics in Northern Ireland.   The first was the brutal murder of Lyra McKee in Derry...

PS Extra: Lord have mercy on us; Lord hear our prayers…

  On Sunday a couple of   hundred people walked the hill to Stormont and then spent a short time in prayer. Alain Emerson from 24/7 Prayer Ireland   and Peter Lynas from  Evangelical Alliance (NI) led the short act of worship with a reading of  PSALM 85  and then...

HOW LONG, LORD?

In mid-September 2019 Northern Ireland will reach a significant milestone in its history. It’s one that seems highly unlikely to attract any of the attention of our decade of centenaries, the 100th anniversaries of the Home Rule crisis and Ulster Covenant, the Easter...

Rivers of Living Water

SECOND OF TWO…PS…blogs from the Board of Contemporary Christianity on a way forward in 2019…with an opportunity for you to respond.   “Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” (John 7:38) The months...

Falling Seeds & Flowering Buds  

FIRST OF TWO ..PS…blogs from the Board of Contemporary Christianity  on a way forward in 2019….with an opportunity for you to respond.  ‘In recent days one verse of scripture keeps recurring in my mind, and keeps coming to me in conversation, memories and in my...