On Tanna Island in the nation of Vanuatu in Melanesia the worshippers of the cult of John Frum hold parades. They paint military insignia on their arms. They carve coconuts to resemble radios and headphones. They build life-size replicas of airplanes out of straw. They cut military-style landing strips out of the jungle. They build wooden control ...
Mark Twain famously wrote, “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes”, and because history is the record of human nature sometimes those rhymes extend over many thousands of years.
See if the following description of world events ring a bell.
The leader of a large and powerful nation sends his armies south to encircle and ...
I was recently asked to be the guest speaker on the subject of evangelism at a retreat.
As part of my presentation I used a video clip that I thought illustrated my point well. But to my surprise some of the women in the group were visibly upset because the pastor who appeared in the clip had recently been exposed as a hypocrite and abuser ...
“ O my many sins the Lord has cast behind his back, Remembered now no more, Remembered now no more. O my many sins the Lord has cast behind his back, Remembered now no more.
As the East is from the West so are they far from me, They are far from me, They are far from me. As the East is from the West so are they far from me, Remembered now ...
“Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.“ Luke 12:27 NIV
It would appear that the law of unintended consequences has not been repealed.
It is ironic so many of the inventions of our present age which promised more time for leisure ...
“Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to Thee.” Charles Wesley SASB#583
The words of Charles Wesley’s Hymn of Childhood quoted above are the first conscious prayer I ever remember uttering.
At about age eighteen months my nightly ritual before being tucked in for sleep was to ...
I suspect that many of you, like me, have some interminable background task that gets some attention from time to time. For me it is cataloging the thousands of photographs spinning merrily away on my hard drive or in the cloud! I was reminded of this the other day when looking for a photograph in my collection.
At the time of passing of ...