I met a former pastor who said he had heard God speak to him while he was alone in church. God had told him to do something contrary to what…

Jesus’ teaching oppressed and confused mighty minds; scholarly Jews who adhered closely to Mosaic law wrestled unsuccessfully with parables. Yet, somehow, he reached the disenfranchised; the uneducated.  His parables appealed…

Don’t expect a word nerd like me to entitle an essay using redundancy every day. Gloat, go on. You know you want to, except – haha! I was being ironic,…

One of my favourite verses right now is Zephaniah 3:17. I already wrote about the verb ‘quiet’ and whined about the confusion caused by bible translations. Now, I want to…

For a while, the fad among my daughters’ peers was to express surprise by crying out ‘shut up!’ Translated from teenager into English that means ‘no way!’ or ‘you’re kidding!’…

Easter is nearly here and I wonder about Christ’s journey from nativity to crucifixion; Christ’s sojourn from grotto to tomb. Yep, that’s my word of the day: sojourn. Maybe ‘grotto’…

Rebuke, Definition: a telling-off (n) to tell-off (v) Bad Day, Definition: when every word of the bible seems to be a rebuke. These are only informal, personal definitions and, as…

Our Ladies’ Bible Study group is currently working on A Heart Like His by Beth Moore. If you enjoy picking words apart, then Moore is for you; she provides deep…

When I imagine John the Baptist emerging from the wilderness, he is ludicrous and historically inaccurate. He bursts out of a forest of fir trees (not too common along the…

I keep circling around and around the part of the Gospel where John is baptizing Christ, honing in on images of creation and deconstruction. According to R.E.O. White at BibleStudyTools.com,…