Author Archives: Revd. Anthony Martlew, L. Th.
CHAPLAIN’S PAGE – The Heavens Declare
WE live in an era of “information explosion”. It pours in on us from the Press, radio, and the Internet. Unfortunately, the bulk of this information is of a worldly nature, and has little or no spiritual value. Some will say that there are a number of interesting TV series dealing with the wonders of…
CHAPLAIN’S PAGE – THE OFFENCE OF CHRIST
YOU may remember reading, last December, about the case concerning All Saints, High Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire. The Church was refused permission to place a poster, advertising their Carol Service, in the town’s public library. The Council’s Community Development Librarian said that his member of staff was right not to display the poster. He (or she)…
CHAPLAIN’S PAGE – THE WOMAN AT THE WELL
MOST of us are familiar with the story of Jesus’ meeting with the woman of Samaria by the well, and the ensuing conversation between them. This is recorded in St John’s Gospel, 4:1-30. When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself…
CHAPLAIN’S PAGE – THE GREATNESS OF CHRIST
There was a time when there was no time. There was a time when there was no space. There was a time when there was nothing, when only one thing existed, and that was God. No time, no space, no world, no thought, no substance, ONLY GOD. The human mind cannot begin to understand the…
CHAPLAIN’S PAGE
IN EVERTHING GIVE THANKS As a young Christian I found it an easy matter to thank the Lord for the good things of life, a wonderful wife and children, a home, and sufficient to eat. It never occurred to me to give thanks for the more unpleasant things of life. Some years later I was…
