Comments by the leader of the Scottish Christian Party on the secular, scientific, political and ecclesiastical scene and the application of Christianity to personal and public life.
When will the study of human behaviour teach people that each human being needs a radical change of spirit? How many more examples of social media messages full of hate, personal and corporate scandals, and human trafficking and child abuse do we need to hear before people will realise that human nature needs to be …
Continue reading A better nature than the one with which you were born
‘By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities.’ Isa 53:11 This text shows that whereas God the Father initiates redemption, yet the scheme or manner of redemption is the prerogative of God the Son. In a past eternity, God the Father gave an innumerable number of sinners to …
Andrew Boyd, B.Sc. Yesterday I buried my only brother, the first of my siblings to reach heaven. Being three years older than me, it seems that he was destined to be always ahead of me. He was ahead of me into this world, ahead of me into the kingdom of heaven, ahead of me into …
Alex Salmond, former SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland, has resigned from the SNP. The reason he has given is to save the SNP the embarrassment and consequences of suspending him from the party while he defends himself against allegations of sexual misconduct. BBC Newsnight said tonight that Salmond had always disagreed with suspending …
Continue reading Alex Salmond joins the campaign for natural justice
Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Hitler and a host of other people sought to aggrandise themselves and build an empire by military might. Karl Marx and his followers want to change the world by political revolution. Jesus Christ is doing it by Christian love, and has been doing it for two millennia, with many more to …
Continue reading Military might, political revolution or Christian love?
Celebrities and public figures who fall foul of the law are discovering at great personal cost the effects of broad-brush accusations and the folly of criminalising sin. Cliff Richard, many before him, and now Alex Salmond are discovering the cost of a dumbed-down secular society. The public is told that Salmond faces allegations of sexual …
The godly are a rare breed in our day. Even so, many people do what they can to avoid them – at least, to avoid those who will speak to them about the things that matter. The arts do not portray them adequately. Rather like references to sin and Sabbath, the conversation of the godly reminds …
Driving a motor vehicle is the most dangerous activity in which most people engage on a regular basis. So one might think that people would learn how to drive more safely and pay more attention to it. Yet many people do not do so. One meets all types on the road. Driving is one activity …
The biblical Millennium is mentioned in every verse of Rev 20:2-7. "He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent who is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations …
Continue reading How long does the biblical Millennium last?
Facebook’s reputation has been tarnished with the Cambridge Analytica scandal and now Google has been caught out by still tracking devices even when location history is turned off. Google is catching up with Facebook in this unwelcome competition. However, not many people know that they are still logged in to Facebook on all devices on …
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