It has been said so often it is a bit of a cliché; ‘you get out of life as much as you put into it,’ or, said another way, ‘you get what you deserve.’ So, if life works that way, by definition Stephen, the first Christian martyr, deserved to cop a stoning to death....
Moses had one of the toughest lives in the Bible. Born into slavery, under death sentence at birth and again in his maturity, leading a rebellious nation out of an evil regime; and finally dying in sight of the land he would hand over to his people. Educated to the...
Adam and Eve were naked but they were made in ‘the image of God’ so I wondered what it meant. Mostly when God as God is pictured in Scripture, he is described as light, or cloud or fire. He is never pictured as a naked being, and when he appears as a man, as when he...
Part 2: CLOTHING YOU CANNOT BUY I have a snapshot of a figurine on a rock in the garden with the sun rising behind it. The figurine is almost obliterated, it is clothed with light when the sun rises behind it. It reminds me of why clothing was important when God set...
Part 4: INHERITED MEMORIES Every morning we put feed out in dishes for parrots that gather in our garden. Every day they come down from the mountains to us for food and then they fly off to their way of life lived outside our garden. They build nests and rear their...
Just what are our "spiritual gates"? The reference to "spiritual gates" in this sense refers to our eyes, our ears, our feet, our minds etc., anything that potentially could lead us to sin. Why should they be protected? The answer is simple: Because they could lead us...
Part 6: WARNINGS OF LOVE The rain falls on the just and the unjust, Matthew 5:45, so why does it flood upon some areas, drought upon another, fire on another, earthquake and volcano on others? What criteria does the Lord use to determine what weather will fall where?...
Part 8: JUSTIFIED TO PROCEED Jacob’s children, the Children of Israel, destined to be established as the Kingdom of God in this world, were locked down by unbelievers. For hundreds of years, the Children of Israel sought to influence the Egyptians but finally, they...
Part 10: HEARTFELT What do we see in the world today? Disbelief, disregard for Christ, all the ‘isms’ of distrust and hatred, and we have terrible drought, flood, earthquake, fire and volcano disasters. Millions are in desperate need of simple basics; food, water,...