Today as I was cleaning my house I was thinking back to when I was a teenager and how I could do nothing all day and be perfectly happy, but now that I am an adult and have more responsibilities, I can’t help but feel restless and unproductive when I spend too much...
To conclude the series on Chile miners' saga, there are two more truths to be "mined"… Celebration… Oh yes, Chile rejoiced, so did the world at large at the safe passage of the 33 miners from "Death to life". Praise God at the "safe passage" of even one sinner from...
Do you ever wonder why Jesus is taking so long to return? The answer lies in the first book of Joshua: "But to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said, 'Remember the command that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: "The Lord your...
Last week, in Lessons from Ezekiel's Temple, Part 13A, we discovered that the trickle of water emerging from Ezekiel's temple is a symbol of God's Spirit pouring through us. It then merges with that which pours through other Christians to become a raging torrent that...
Jigsaw puzzles have never been my thing. I am blind to the little clues so I empathise with the man reading the Bible when Philip said to him, “Do you understand what you are reading?” And he replied, “How can I without someone to guide me?” Yet he was a man who knew...
Many years ago I bought and planted in my yard my first hostas. These hardy perennials grow in clumps and flower once a year. I knew when I bought them, they could be divided by just cutting each clump apart and replanting it. I have many hostas now, and have always...
"How beautiful .. are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation." (Isaiah 52:7) At a shopping mall, I noticed a sign in a window, “Let us make your feet beautiful.” Spring’s past end and Summer’s now....
It's the middle of the night. You're in a dark forest, so dark you can't see your hand in front of your face. There are others. Family, friends, co-workers, classmates, neighbors, people you don’t know and some you don’t particularly like. You can't see them, but they...
"'You are my witnesses,' declares the Lord, 'and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me. I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from me there is...
They probably call it ‘white-out.’ We were up there in a ridiculously tiny plane, totally engulfed in white cloud. We were utterly dependent on the expertise of the young man in the pilot seat. I felt as though some one had typed me into the cloud and then gone over...