London’s East End in 1835 had upwards of one and three quarter million persons massed within an area of six square miles. The state of the people: people sunk to the lowest conditions of poverty, wretchedness, and crime. Political refugees from Europe, and the influx of Irish immigrants added tens…

The California gold rush began in 1848. Captain Sutter, a German, had, in 1939, pledged allegiance to Mexico and had been granted a huge tract of land in the Sacramento Valley. James W Marshall was employed by Sutter in January 1848 to construct a Mill on a fork of the…

Time magazine, June 2011, had former Pastor Rob Bell as one of the 100 most influential people in the World. Unfortunately, I am fairly certain he is not on God's list of influential people. I’ll come back to Rob Bell. It’s not difficult to be alert to erroneous ideas about…

The word Deconstruction was originally associated with Jacques Derrida, an Algerian-born French Philosopher. It has something to do with words not really meaning what they mean. If you look him up on Wikipedia you will read a page of totally incomprehensible explanations, impossible to understand. As far as I can…

It seems that may just be the case. Jesus said Jonah’s experience was a sign. But Jesus replied, “Only an evil, adulterous generation would demand a miraculous sign; but the only sign I will give them is the sign of the prophet Jonah. …

Aaron, in the Bible, was the brother of Moses. Moses has just had an experience with God in the desert wilderness. He is called to lead the children of Israel out of slavery in Egypt. Moses seems to have had some sort of speech impediment. He tries to convince God…

Christian author Perry Stone mentioned this in one of his books. Often when a significant spiritual event occurs in the Bible, the person involved is on the banks of a river, or near a sea. Rivers in the Bible get their first mention in Genesis 2: 10–14 A river flowed…

The Boutique on Rue Cambon close to the Ritz Hotel, was extremely popular with German soldiers on leave during the Nazi occupation of Paris. Daily they stood in lines outside the shop waiting to purchase the famed Chanel 5, to send home to wife or sweetheart. Nazi officers did not…

As I was writing a previous article on the many references in the Bible to Mountains associated with God’s activity on Earth, it occurred to me the exact opposite is true, in the Bible, regarding the activity of evil and God’s resistance to evil on the Earth. Many of those…