“But if
the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be
not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken
away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” [Ezekiel
33:6]
“For we
wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places.” [Ephesians
6:12]
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A 24 January 2018 PaZimbabwe article by Lex Vambe titled “Grace Mugabe Embroiled In a Nasty Land Dispute With
Reformed Church in Zimbabwe” reports
that the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe, now that Romert Mugabe is out of office, is seeking
to recover land earmarked for a school that was stolen by Grace Mugabe during
husband Robert’s rule over Zimbabwe.
The Eaglesvale Senior School
planned to build a new school building on the approx. sixty-acre plot of land
until Grace Mugabe seized it and began growing corn on it. The Mugabes were
reported to have seized fourteen farms during Robert Mugabe’s tenure as leader
of Zimbabwe.
The Moderator-designate for
the 2018 General Assembly of the Free
Church of Scotland (Continuing) is the
Rev. David Blunt, minister of the Free Church Continuing congregation of North
Uist & Grimsay.
Born in Essex in 1958 and brought
up in Hampshire, Mr. Blunt studied Environmental Science at the University
College of Wales, which was followed by research at Dundee University.
Finding the naturalistic
explanation for the universe implausible and the evolutionary account of man's
origin inadequate, he then read the Bible for the first time. The result was an
awareness of the holiness of God, a sense of personal sin and a longing for
forgiveness. Helped by the witness of Christians he met through the providence
of God, by divine grace he came to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ in 1983.
His conversion led to
opportunities to serve the Lord, including assisting at a city mission and
teaching part-time at a Christian primary school. Sensing a call to the gospel
ministry, Mr. Blunt attended the Free Church College for three years as a
private student. In 2000 he was inducted by the Free Church Continuing as an
Evangelist / Church Planter based in Aberdeen and in 2007 accepted a call to
the North Uist & Grimsay congregation in the Western Isles. He has served
both as a Presbytery Clerk and Clerk to Assembly Committees.
Editor of the denominational
magazine Free Church Witness since 2017, Mr Blunt is also the author of
Presbyterianism, published by the Free Church (Continuing), and of Which Bible
Version: Does it Really Matter?, published by the Trinitarian Bible Society.
Married to Sybil, who comes
from Point in Lewis, he enjoys reading, walking and gardening.
+ Free
Church of Scotland (Continuing), Rev.
John MacLeod, Free Church Manse, Portmahomack,
Ross-shire, Scotland, principalclerk@fccontinuing.org
