Graham Ford

While the modern culture of Christmas with its Father Christmas’s, heaps of presents most of which are tat, and too much to eat, is a relatively modern invention that does not have a lot to do with biblical Christianity, the religious festival of Christmas, bringing to mind the virgin birth …

Visions of Heaven? Last month, when the battle for Mosul began, Islamic State caliph Al-Baghdadi declared: “All, without exception, will enter paradise as martyrs.  Moreover, you will enter paradise with four more Houris than other martyrs. For just as you stand by me now, so will they stand by you, or …

Three Challenges – Three Opportunities (1) The last book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation, contains John’s record of a prophetic vision that the Lord gives him of things that would happen leading up to the return of Christ and then beyond that into heaven itself. In the 14th …

In our previous article on the message of the Angel in Revelation 14, we covered the first two commands to the mankind: to fear God and to come out of Babylon the Great, the luxurious economy that would arise in the last days. This Babylon the Great we unambiguously identified …

Around the world there is an assault on children that is evil, cruel, heartless and worthy of divine judgment. And that assault is not coming from microbes, wild animals, earthquakes or tsunamis; it is coming from us. I could catalogue the child rapes, sanctioned by the example of long-dead leaders, …

Christ and Capital Jesus said: ‘Do not store up treasures for you upon the earth, where moth and rust ingest, and where thieves burrow through and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust ingest, and where thieves do not burrow through or steal. …

In her presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton referred to half of the Donald Trump supporters as ‘deplorables’. Donald Trump was supported by a broad base of Americans, as it turned out the majority of voters. Since Mrs Clinton was never specific about which half of these electors she found deplorable, or …

Last month, a curious coincidence happened in the United Kingdom that highlighted a fundamental contradiction in the British Governments attempts to legislate our society to be more equal. A celebrated case was decided upon by a Court of Appeal. The Government’s equality Commission in Northern Ireland brought a case against …

The Father of John the Baptist prophesied the before John the Baptist was born, saying: “You, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest; for ‘you will travel before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways.’  You are to give knowledge of salvation to his people in …

Another Funeral for the Slain In Israel funerals has been held for two Jews who were murdered by an Arab in a drive-by shooting, which took place in Jerusalem. He wounded five others. He was eventually killed in order to stop him continuing to kill. The Muslim Arab was praised …