We were well prepared for our journey. We started with a decision and a commitment and added travelling essentials like sunglasses and wallet, fuel in the tank, and made very sure we had a road map. All went well, the unfamiliar road was good, traffic was moderate and...
A Soliloquy Who am I? I, even I, breathe the breath of fire and stir up dust and death. I have stripped the forests of their olden cover and bared their soil to the drying sun and burnt to crust their fertile glades. I have opened windows of the heavens and broken...
"I was tempted to think ..." We've all heard, and possibly said, these exact words: "I was tempted to think you'd be late!" "I was tempted to think you didn't care!" "I was tempted to think she was right about you!" In my experience these words are generally stated...
Many people in the Western world now use GPSs for navigational purposes. It is really a fantastic tool. You set the address or coordinates into the tiny computer, and it tells you what road to take, how many miles or kilometres it is, and even how long it will take...
The book of Judges is a rather depressing book about how the children of Israel just keep sinking deeper and deeper into sin and wandering farther and farther away from God. Initially the people sank into idolatry and they were overtaken by Aram, but when the people...
In the final part of our series on God's "balance" and "imbalance", let's firstly look at yet another incident in the Master's life, which brings to the fore, His perfect balance: Commending but… Scene one… Jesus is whole-heartedly appreciating the impulsive Simon...
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...
Let's focus for a moment today on the floggings that Jesus received: "Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified." (Matt 27:26 NIV) The Israelites had a law about flogging: "If the guilty man deserves to be beaten,...
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...