Ten men lived on death row in the wilderness. Their society and their families believed they had a religious duty to desert them. There was no touch of compassion. Death was measuring them for a lingering extinction somewhere in the rocks of the desert. Their vultures...
Let us discover what else follows self-righteousness when the Sons of God marry the daughters of men. What is the sequence of events when true belief is compromised? It is violence and corruption. It is all there is chapter 6 of Genesis, and today the big words in...
A friend was asked to give his "testimony" to a group of people. If you are asked to give such a statement it is usually because you are highly respected for some quality you have displayed. It is a witness statement about one’s self so it is very revealing and very...
Years ago I heard the story of the farm-hand employed by a man who lived in the city. Every evening, before nightfall, the farm-hand would secure all the gates and close down all the sheds and outhouses so there were no banging doors or loose gates to cause trouble if...
The Lord called his council together. From the sapphire throne, he opened his address and said, “It is sixteen hundred years since my Word became flesh and delivered my people from the guilt of their sin. Still the good news has not enriched the ordinary people of the...
He created the most beautiful image of a flower anyone had ever seen. He used material that had never been seen before, soft and flexible but with a transparency unknown to anyone else and the colours seemed to radiate from whichever angle you looked. It was put into...
Somebody gave me a creamy white cross. It was about the size of a piece of costume jewellery and I looked it over carefully because I had not seen anything like it before. It was hand made and smooth with a slight sheen, and the more I looked at it and handled it, the...
Like a lot of other people, I have vilified a woman over a long period. Somewhere along the track, she was said to be a really nasty person. A lot of people have talked about her both in print and on radio and I have sat in audiences where she was described as the...
On a war memorial in a small country town there are two names that are dear to me. They are the names of my brothers and there is a small cross beside one of the names. The names have been there for a number of years but today, when all our values and ideals are being...
Through years of association with general farming people, I have observed that many of them form very real relationships with their pets and their working animals. In return, their animals were obedient, protective of their masters, and had genuine regard for them....