Christian Medical Comment

Psalm 16, written in Hebrew about 3,000 years ago, is called ‘a miktam of David’.
What is a miktam? Commentators differ. It’s been suggested that means a golden psalm, a secret psalm or an inscribed psalm. I’m afraid I can't enlighten you further.
But what we do know is that this is only one of six miktams in the psalter. The other five are psalms 56 to 60....

Jany Haddad (born Teheran, Iran, 13 March 1954, died Aleppo, Syria, 14 August 2020)
‘Doctor, we plead with you, please do not leave Aleppo, you are the salt of this land. You are the light of this city.’
So spoke Dr Jany Haddad’s Muslim patients during the dark days in Syria when hundreds of thousands were escaping the country to seek refuge in Europe and beyond....

I preached this sermon on Sunday 23 August 2020, the second in a series of two on the book of Haggai.
If you were with us last Sunday, you will be familiar with the historical backdrop to the book of Haggai.
Jerusalem – the capital of the Jewish Kingdom - was destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 BC and those Jews who had not been killed were taken into exile in the city of Babylon, in modern day Iraq....

I preached the following message at our church’s evening service on Sunday, 16 August.
The British Museum reopens following its closure for COVID on 27 August - and you can book a timed ticket in advance.
If you are planning a trip then one of its most famous exhibits is a clay artefact called the Cyrus cylinder (above)....