Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

Imagine you are one of the thousands of refugees who has chosen to leave your home town in Ukraine fleeing for your life. Eventually you get on a train out of the country and into neighbouring Hungary. You are exhausted, you are worried, you have left loved ones behind who you don’t know if you’ll ever see again. And then you think about where you have arrived- in a different country not knowing where to turn. Well Christians amongst others in Hungary have been looking after the tidal wave of refugees streaming into the country. I received an email from a Christian pastor Adam in Hungary who writes this…  “Here is one story that just happened yesterday. The railway stations in Budapest are overloaded, they simply don't have the capacities to welcome tens of thousands of refugees arriving on train. The [portable] Toi-Toi toilets are few and dirty. The situation is chaotic. So yesterday my friend, Hamar Dani, took 25 men to one of the railways stations. They he...

We may all be thinking a lot about Ukraine at the moment, but what’s going on there is utterly horrific, and this will be remembered in history for years to come, so I think we need to try not to get fatigue from all the news we’re hearing. I’m recording this a little in advance, so I don’t know what’s happening in that country as you’re listening. Something I saw recently is the Daily Mail frontpage headline “Pray for Ukraine”. Which is an interesting comment, as the question arises – who are they suggesting you pray to? If you don’t believe in God, how can you pray? I do in fact believe in God, and believe that he hears our prayers, so I do pray for Ukraine, and I think we all should. But pray to the God of creation, the God of the Bible, not just a being thought up by human imagination.  Anyway, what I want to say this morning is about guilt. I have a Russian friend who I spoke to last week, and she was talking about how she doesn’t support the war in Ukraine, b...

    We’ve all seen horrific events on our news feeds in recent days. One day people walking free in the streets of the cities of Ukraine, and the next tanks moving in and bombs dropping. Civilians becoming soldiers, families and children sheltering underground. And as I record this, there’s talk of an increased escalation to the nuclear threat. The world has become a much scarier place than a few days ago. Today I’m not going to say very much, except to read some words from Psalm 46 in the Bible and say a short prayer. If you are a praying person I hope that you can say Amen at the end. These verses show that for God’s people there is ultimate security, and we need not fear. In the Lord Jesus Christ we can find peace and safety. Do contact one of the local churches if we can support you through this time. 1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. 2  Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way      and t...