I want to look at a nasty, vindictive woman, Potiphar’s wife, who could not handle rejection. I expect she was attractive and quite used...

What is the power of prayer? In the days of vicious persecution against Christians, God answered the intercessory prayers of His faithful...

Languages and linguistics have always fascinated me (which is why I did quite a bit of post-graduate study in this area). Some phonemes...

It’s almost spring time –the traditional time to spring clean, even though, in reality, people have been spring-cleaning all throughout...

Mary was a godly young lady, probably about 14 years old, when she was told she was miraculously going to conceive and bear a baby who...

An incident in the life of Jesus has ramifications for us today. It involved Jesus teaching a crowd in the Temple when some religious...

“I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea, that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy...

Paul had come from Athens, where he had had a hard time, to Corinth, a commercial city with 2 harbours. There he met a married couple...

By a guest contributor, Malcolm Cotton, 18.8.21 The ministry of Jesus was radical in many ways. One way was the value He placed on women...

Joppa, a lovely old port city near the heart of modern Tel Aviv, has had a rich past of conquests and massacres. It was here that Tabitha...

In the early church of the first century in Jerusalem, the believers shared all their possessions with one another because of the love...

I’ve known a number of very energetic and spritely people well over 100 years old but every one of them spent a lifetime fastidiously...

Many people have had a friend who was unkind or untrue to them. The one who deceived us. But what about a friend stealing your life?...

What would you do if you were suddenly asked to be a king or queen? For Saul, the whole idea was totally daunting. He was more handsome...

I don’t want to think of how many exasperating weeks we have been in COVID lockdown in Sydney with police and army enforcement. However...

It seems little brothers can need a lot of help. Miriam protectively watched over baby Moses as he lay in his handcrafted boat amongst...

Little girls are born to be mothers. Almost as soon as they can walk they are cuddling dolls. As they grow up they play at being married...

Not much is written about Bathsheba but we do have some hints in the Biblical record. For one, she was very beautiful and had married the...

Arguably the most hateful woman in the Bible, Jezebel boggles the mind at her resourcefulness for evil. She was the Phoenician wife of...

Today I want to write about who I think must’ve been one of the most miserable and depressed women in the Bible –the woman with an issue...