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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...
Scripture "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." (Rom 12:21) Observation We can choose how we respond to evil, we are not helpless pawns but are children of the King. We can decide not to be overcome by evil, it does not have to swamp us. Evil may,...
"This is what the LORD says—he who made a way through the sea . . . I am making a way in the wilderness." (Isaiah 43:16, 19) The river was higher than usual. A great amount of rainfall through the year had caused it to swell its banks. This fall the water wasn’t...
"And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.'" (Matt 25:40, NKJV) I was sitting in a chair, sipping iced tea out of a thermos, and trying to stay awake. The...
"Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, 'Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.' And God granted his request." (1 Chronicles 4:10) It was great to be away on vacation, away...
"Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' Or 'What shall we drink?' Or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His...
"And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself." (John 12:32-33 NKJV) I have never attended a bible study group, nor have I been to church. My parents are not Christians, in fact, no one in my family is. I used to be an atheist. A firm...
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...
"O little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie..." In the concluding part of the series on "Little” big Bethlehem, today after we come to the final dimension of the said subject namely the Prophetical Significance... Why did the Messiah make a "touchdown" in...
In the concluding part of the series on the "Parable of talents", today we come to the final lesson...in fact there is a lesson within a lesson to be had here ... "N0" EXCUSE "...His master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant! ... And throw that worthless servant...
Today in the concluding part of my series on the acronym E.L.E.C.T during this "Election fever" time, I come to yet another two paramount issues of Christian life... C- Canvassing Heard of an election in a democracy with no canvassing? Hey Christ's Party member, when...
There is a mirror in the lounge room and it is quite sizeable. Cleaning it is quite a task, a task I have to admit that does not get done as often as it should. In fact the surface of the mirror was so dimmed that when I looked into it, it worried me to a state of...
Dear Jesus, You are the Son of God, and you went through an agonizing passion for me and everyone in the whole wide world. In the Garden of Gethsemane you sweated great drops of Blood due to your agony. You were arrested and the soldiers put a crown of thorns on your...