Jesus intentionally went into Gentile territory (Matt. 15: 21; Mark 7:31). While there he met a woman who persistently requested her...

Sarah was an extremely beautiful woman, so much so that Abraham was fearful that men would kill him for her. Two kings, who could choose...

Israel had been heavily oppressed by the Canaanites so God called Deborah into action beside the commander of the Israelite army. The...

In the secular world I’ve known a few men who have married their call girls. In my education provider we even had a whole group of...

I’ve met countless people who have moved overseas to escape from a bad past. I've counselled international students who have worked in...

“Tears fall for a reason and they are your strength not weakness” said the horse to the boy. (Charlie Mackesy). Of all the pain felt by...

“The greatest illusion,” said the mole, “is that life should be perfect”. (Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, The Fox and the Horse). If...

“What does courage mean,” asked the boy “To tell the truth of who you are with your whole heart”. (Charlie Mackesy). The Israelites had...

“One day you will see just how brave you have been” said the horse to the boy. (Charlie Mackesy). Can you imagine living in a country...

Leah was a woman in the Bible who got a rough deal in life. First of all she wasn’t particularly attractive. We are told she was...

If ever there was a supremely capable and confident leader in Israel, it was Deborah (whose name means "a bee"). She was blessed by God...

Abigail was stuck in a bad marriage to Nabal, a wealthy, but evil man. Why the marriage took place in the first place is irrelevant....

“Be careful if you make a woman cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man’s ribs. Not from his feet to be walked on,...

It is hard to not believe that when you are waiting you are doing nothing. In Beckett’s well-known play, Waiting for Godot, the entire...

In the story about Solomon (1 Kings 10) we have the Queen of Sheba travelling to his palace in Jerusalem to see if all she had heard...

Jesus has been in existence from everlasting to everlasting (Prov. 8:23), before the “primal dust of the world” had been made (Prov....

“What are you glad you gave up?” asked the boy. ”Trying to please everyone”, said the horse. (The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse...

God knows everything about you and loves you. That doesn’t mean that your thoughts are like His thoughts, though. He loves you despite...

Our thoughts can go wild if we don’t keep a rein on them. I’m not just referring to someone suffering from depression or PTSD, but all of...

In previous blogs I have spoken about God’s wrath at the end of time and in another about the noisy celebratory party in heaven when all...