"So the captain came to him, and said to him, 'What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God; perhaps your God will consider us, so that we may not perish.'" (Jonah 1:6 NKJV) In the Old Testament there is a ship story concerning Jonah. He was a...
The albatross is an amazing bird. With a wingspan of 3 metres (9.6 feet), they are amongst the largest birds that soar the Heavens. And soar they do. You see, with wings that big, they can't actually "fly". They rely on gusts of air to keep them off the ground, but...
In last week's lesson on the gates of Jerusalem, we saw that when we are faced with trials and temptations and discouragement begins to set in, we need to walk through the third gate of Jerusalem, the Old Gate. We need to remember God's faithfulness in the past, and...
Linked in…Tweeter…Facebook…Orkut… now these are the names of social networking portals which figure high in the lingo of the modern day iPod generation youth. Is not social networking the order of the day? Very much! Has it ever occurred to you that if you are...
"Look mom!" cried my son with more enthusiasm that I had heard him use in over a day. "The two water glasses came apart!" I raised an eyebrow. I mean, this isn't usually a big deal to pull two stacked water glasses apart. He smiled. "They were stuck," he said. "I had...
Is a wind still a wind when not a breeze will blow? Is a stream still a stream when its waters cease to flow? Is a fire still a fire when there's nothing left to burn? Is the wise still the wise when they never want to learn? Here's a universal truth. No one likes to...
"The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen." (Exodus 14:18 NIV) "Among the gods there is none like You O Lord; no deeds can compare with Yours. All the nations You have made will come and worship before...
It all started out innocently enough. I was doing a routine search of the ministry websites, looking for a story that had been published a couple of years ago, and when the site search engines repeatedly crashed my web browser, I decided to look it up on Google....
"I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him, - since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened - so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the...
Every Easter since 1823 there has been an egg fight in Peters Hollow in Northeast Tennessee. No, it isn't like some places have tomato festivals and throw rotten tomatoes at each other. It started out with local farmers seeing whose hens laid eggs with the hardest...