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The Kingdom of God and the Water of Life
THE COVER PICTURE shows the Turbine Water Fountain in the centre of the English city of Coventry. It is a tribute to the city’s heritage: Sir Frank Whittle, the inventor of the jet engine, was born in Coventry in 1907. He first put forward his ideas for a jet engine in 1928 whilst a student. The fountain features the shape of the turbine blades of a jet engine.
Will There Ever Be Worldwide Peace?
ONE OF LUDWIG VAN Beethoven’s most famous compositions is called Moonlight Sonata—a moving and melancholic piece. What a sad and bitter irony that the German air force in 1940 used this codename for the devastating bombing raid on the city of Coventry at the time of a full moon.
No More Sickness
WOULDN’T WE ALL love to live in a world free, at last, from the curse of famine, sickness and disease? No more reports of an overwhelmed health service. No more need for continual pleas for research funding to combat cancer, heart disease, dementia, Alzheimer’s and countless other disabilities and diseases.
Hear the Good News and Act
‘HE WHO HAS EARS to hear, let him hear.’ That is what Jesus said to the crowds in Matthew 11:15. He was looking for people who had ears. I assume the majority of the people in those crowds had two ears, and I also assume that most people who are reading this have two ears.
Hope for the Future- Resurrection
“IN THIS WORLD nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” This phrase was famously used by the American founding father Benjamin Franklin over 200 years ago, and it still chimes with us today.