– by Bruce Yocum December, the end of the calendar year 2020, and COVID-19 is still with us. Here in England, where I am living, severe new restrictions have just been introduced, eliminating almost all possibility of people celebrating Christmas together with more than immediate family or household. There is concern that a new strain […]

Do you each day seek the Lord to allow His Holy Spirit to use you?

One month after the writing of the first part of this article COVID-19 is still with us, and much of the world is still under restrictions intended to contain the spread of the virus.

What are we as Christians supposed to make of all this? Is this – or in what sense is this – one of the “signs of the times” that we are supposed to look for? Is this a sign of the end times?

Even though the sole word “apocalypse” causes terror in many people who associate it with catastrophes and horror, the book of Revelation, sometimes referred to as Apocalypse is above all a book of victory and hope

When you have nothing, then you will have Me! When you have to depend on nothing, work, money. riches, food, etc. then you will realize I exist. That I am God. That I am the creator and provider of all things…

Let us reflect on Jesus’ words to Peter, his first representative on earth, when, on a stormy night, and frightened by the violence of the wind and the waves, the old fisherman, the rock of Christ’s church, has faltered and is sinking: “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”