John the Apostle

John the apostle tells us that on the eve of his death, Jesus gathered his twelve disciples together around him and said:- John 16: 7 – 13 Unless I go away, the Counsellor will not come to you; but, if I go, I will send Him to you. When He comes, He will convict the […]

Thought for today

Isaiah 55: 8 – 11 “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways”, declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return […]

God’s promises in the day of the pandemic

When troubles challenge us from time to time, the Bible, God’s love letter to humanity, comes with a number of promises. The first, I guess, was the one that was made to Noah. In Genesis 9:11, God said “Never again will all life be cut off by the water of a flood; never again will […]

Matthew the Taxman

PPT: Matthew the taxman When you pick up your bible and read from its opened pages, do you ever wonder how its 66 volumes, all of them written in languages foreign to you, and some up to 4000 years old, managed to make their way down through time to eventually influence your thoughts? And it […]

John Mark

The silence for the Jewish nation was becoming unbearable. For 400 years the heavens had been closed, and the wait among the faithful for the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy brought its own tensions. The problem was that the last prophetic words of the Old Testament had been so uncompromising.