I have had an increasing sense of living here on earth on a temporary visa. “This world is not my home, I’m just a-passing through…” says the hymn that has always resonated with me at some level. The song becomes more true all the time. Read more…

Religious people don’t read and study the Bible much. They do talk a lot about how to interpret it, though. They even talk about “how this applies to our life today” as though they needed to bring life to a dead carcass of outdated ramblings.

The spiritual person reacts like this Read more…

I do not know if this is the experience of all, many or no other blogger, but I find it jaw-dropping amazing how I feel led to post an article only to find another blog I follow posting the same message either the same day (once it was within minutes!) or within a few days. Or I am led to a new blog which has published the same message.

“Glory belongs to God, whose power is at work in us. By this power he can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine” (Ephesians 3:20 God’s Word).

No matter how often I read about it I am shaken, startled, and saddened at the response of religious people to the work of God. Jesus healed a man speechless because of a demon of silence. When the man spoke the religious people (the ones who go to church service and sit on committees and contribute to new furnaces and a roof or two) condemned Jesus. Read more…

It’s raining today. That means that for my night shift my boots will gain weight (sticky Lambton clay). Maybe I’ll get stuck at that really muddy site (but thank God for 4-wheel drive!). Read more…