We live in an increasingly godless world.  People in any kind of difficulty expect their Governments to provide and complain when they do not.  They are trying to do this in the USA. Govts that are in financial difficulties increasingly have to do this, indeed some are being forced to cut back on their services. We started reading Paul’s second ...

What thought challenging verses we had today as we started reading 2nd Corinthians.  Paul writes of his experiences of afflictions and the “comfort” God gives him to cope with them – and yet his comfort is also founded on the comfort believers give to each other.  “The father of mercies,” writes Paul, “comforts us in all our affliction, so that ...