Go back 100 years, and most people in the UK would have agreed that it was right to worship God in public.  They might not have given their hearts to Jesus, or behaved rightly, but at least they knew what they should believe.

We are now in one of the most uncertain economic climates since 1929.  Indeed, some would say that the world has never been in more financial peril.

Depressed global money markets and political uncertainty in prompting the questions: where will all this go to?  what will happen in the end?

Only God knows.  But there is a dawning realisation that a global economy based on credit cannot last indefinitely.  We cannot take out more than we put in.

“Give us the gossip, then!”  “Well, have you heard …?”  “No, tell us …!”  Such conversations take people down an unstoppable escalator to a dark underworld where truth and lies, right and wrong, become confused as somebody else’s private lives are dissected in shady clubs.  And they get pleasure out of it. 

Not only pleasure, but a sense of power and control.  When you know something about somebody else you can manipulate the way other people think about them.  It is a bizarrely perverted style of abuse. 

Did you know that over half of the adult population of the UK dies without having written a valid will?  Does that matter?  Yes!!

Dying without a will creates an expensive problem for family left behind, often creating unnecessary family disputes; and your money has to go where the intestacy laws dictate, instead of where you might want it to go.  Don’t forget that while you have the money you have the stewardship responsibility for it, which includes making arrangements for its use after you cannot use it.