Expressions

Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path. Psalm 119:105 (NKJV) Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You. Psalm 119:11 (NKJV) Open my eyes, that I may see Wondrous things from Your law. Psalm 119:18 (NKJV)  Your word is a lamp […]

Was it mockery, a diatribe against his timorousness, brought on by Israel’s descent into the maelstrom of despondency, as scavenger tribes plundered the fruit of its labour, powerless to resist their savagery and greed. How effete to beat out wheat secretively in a wine press hidden in a cave!   How could this Angel of […]

Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the labourers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into His harvest.” Matthew 9:37-38 (NKJV) For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”… And how shall they believe in Him of whom they […]

I do not truly grieve for him, my father, the great King, whom the world revered for his unsurpassed wisdom and untold riches; for his Palace – the House of the Forest of Lebanon with its forty-five pillars of cedar embellished with five hundred gold shields that left visitors breathless with wonder at its opulence; […]

I was not ready then to die for Him, my Lord, despite my oaths of allegiance and declarations of His divinity, that fateful evening at the garden when even the olive trees were bent over with grief as their Creator agonised with drops of blood falling from His brow, pleading with His Father that He […]

  All is not over after final breath, There is life after death! Jesus will descend from the sky, And in the twinkling of an eye, There will be a great surprise, For the dead in Him shall rise.   Jesus has died and is risen! Our sins have been forgiven. Sin and death have […]

  Gnarled and weighed down with age, the olive trees, deep-rooted in mothering soil had witnessed the soul-wrenching struggle that fateful night when the Lord of all Creation made flesh agonised over the magnitude of the cost of redeeming the creatures fashioned in His Father’s image. It wasn’t the humiliation, scourge, or the fatal cross, […]

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and […]

Dead Sea Scroll background …and the angels sang; all Nature stood on tiptoe, and Man for whom He came sat in wide-eyed wonder speechless at His commencement as He, the desire of all Israel proclaimed the fulfillment of this prophecy made six centuries earlier in this acceptable year of the Lord – a man, the […]

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen… By faith we understand that the worlds Were framed by the word of God… But without faith it is impossible to please Him, For he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder […]

How strange that he should ask me, a Samaritan, for water from the well of our Patriarch, Jacob to slake his thirst, this man from Galilee, this Jew, with whom we have no truck. He has such quiet princely dignity, such orchards of peace in his countenance, and eyes that read the chronicles of my […]

The everlasting God… gives power to the weak… But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:28-31 (NKJV) Amidst challenges and strife, We run the marathon of life. Everyone must […]