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Don’t just check your privilege; channel it.

Don’t just check your privilege; channel it.

Back in 2018, I wrote an article, “Of Witches and Whales”, observing the strange yet incredible efforts of the humpback whales, who help, rescue, or even get into good ol’ fisticuffs to defend, any animal they come across that is being hurt or attacked. .

  • Song - 'Here I am to Serve you Lord'

    It's usually during or directly after I've spent time at the feet of the Lord praying or just waiting on the Lord, that I get words come to me, and in this case with a song titled "Here I am to Serve you Lord" there was obviously a time of reflecting on what my purpose is once we accept the Lord's call and join ourselves through baptism into his life.

  • Must I Pay my Tithe?

    Tithe has been a subject of controversy for many years. Some have claimed it is an old testament law, while others say tithing also applies to new testament believers.

  • The Truth About Entanglement

    Open red table talk has given us the will to become wordsmiths; leaving the truth to be all but jaded. The word ‘entanglement’ has suddenly hit biblical proportions, I mean, ten commandments type biblical.

  • Encouraging and Strengthening

    Coaches of Influence (COIN) founder Nelson Cook 40 years ago in Los Angeles USA writes a monthly letter to the many coaches at professional, college and high school levels and the current correspondence touches the spot.

  • How many partners will you have?

    Recently I discussed my forty plus years of marriage with a young person. He said he couldn’t imagine being with one person for that length of time.

  • A Ticking Time Bomb

    The young guy sitting on the park bench is absorbed in his phone. The professional working late in the office is totally focussed on his screen.

  • Abortion: Some Points for a Christian to Consider

    The issue of abortion is a thorny one. Passions run high on both sides of the debate. The tensions underscoring this issue continue to make the morality and legality of abortion a matter of fervent national and global debate.

  • John Fairfax (1804 - 1877)

    John and Sarah Fairfax after fourteen years of hard work in growing their business in Leamington, England, stood in the place that was John’s printing business and Sarah’s bookshop, bankrupt. Unable to continue.

  • Tourism and Evangelism

    My travels around the world introduced me to Christian tourism. Christian tourism is as old as the pilgrimages from the west to the Holy Land from the seventh century and it became something of a coming of age encounter as those of holy orders and of a mature commitment to Christ took sometimes a full year out to travel, usually by foot.

  • It is not always as it seems    

    When is truth stranger than fiction. Recently I read three articles that reveal truth is quite often stranger than fiction. Two comes from New Zealand and one from Israel. All three of these stories you too might find interesting with many subsequent implications. 

  • Biblical hygiene

    Biblical hygiene—no, I am not talking about washing your Bible after reading it on the toilet!