Category - Challenging the Narrative

“When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD ...

Sarah and Her Doppelgangers

She was a complex character. She gave her husband permission to get with her maid, but turned and blamed him ...

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Isaac’s Rebellion

The Bible speaks loudest on issues about which it is silent. One of the biggest questions that have preoccupied students ...

The Void At The Core Of Being

Amy Biehl had been on a Fulbright scholarship working on projects to facilitate democracy and social justice in South Africa. ...

The Faithful Hedonist

Oskar Schindler was a faithful hedonist. This paradox was right up the biblical alley. He was a man to whom ...

Treasure In Earthen Vessels

“He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He ...

Faith Seeking Understanding (2) – A Fellowship of The Spirit

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.[1]Proverbs 21:16 In ...

Faith Seeking Understanding – Decoding Divine Mysteries

Wisdom is the principal thing. Get wisdom, and with all thy getting, get understanding.[1]Psalm 4:7 Asaph unleashed upon the making ...

Man in the Mirror

In Sophocles’ Greek tragedy, Thebes is overcome by a plague. The oracle reveals that a murder and an incestuous relationship ...

The Trouble With Theodicy

“If God is unable to prevent evil, then he is not all-powerful. If God is not willing to prevent evil, ...

On Vice and Virtue – a Tale of Two Servants

They told on him. He’d been bad. He was wasteful, said some. Unjust, posted others. His boss was having none ...

Letter to Jacob: Striving for Vanity

Dear Jacob, It’s a pleasure to write you. Your thoughts, motives and actions have been fodder for much religious exegesis ...

Challenging the Narrative

A Consequential Friendship

Yahweh was on a mission. He set out to upend man’s age-old approach to knowing and relating to Him. Then, ...

The Goliath Trilogy: A Divine Prop

A Divine Prop There was the legend of the stick that turned into a snake, a bosom that made hands ...

The Goliath Trilogy: The Shaken Leaf

The Shaken Leaf As the children of Israel journeyed from Egypt to Canaan, they overcame large armies and defied nature. ...

Who Is Rich?

“Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody,” said Benjamin Franklin. Wrong, says the Bible, and so ...

Marry… for the Sake of Heaven

“For it is better to marry than to burn,” [1]1 Corinthians 7:9 Apostle Paul wrote in response to questions the ...

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Oskar Schindler and the Rich Young Ruler

Oscar Schindler went about his life without Jesus Christ on his radar. The hard-living, womanising, war-profiteering Austrian amassed huge wealth ...

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The Jonah Complex

The Prophet Jonah is every man of the covenant faith. All he desires is to save God from God. God ...

Love by Obedience

What is love? Is it a euphoric feeling? An emotion? Or is it something that requires that little bit more. ...

Habits of the Heart

God is in a choke hold. The Almighty is gasping for air. We have squeezed him into our little religious ...

Where’s the God of Enoch?

Everyone has a scriptural go-to character in a quest for the blessings of heaven. Everyone of these biblical figures has ...

Articles of the Covenant Faith

Their meeting started off as deferential as one might expect of a meeting between man and God. Abraham bowed, stooped ...

Godliness without Religion

Puah and Shiphrah do not feature in any list of Bible’s biggest characters. They don’t get nearly as much mention ...

God’s Invite to Mutuality of Love

The love of God is universal to all mankind. I believe it, not because it’s what I’ve been taught but ...

Gentiles weren’t always the ‘godless’ Other

Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? But whom say ye that I am? [1]Matthew 16:13,15 ...

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The Thief that Stole the Show

“Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.” William Blake (1757 –1827) We ...

Sin and Compassion

God does not play dice with the universe, Albert Einstein said. He obviously didn’t read the book of Job. In ...

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For the love of Julie

There’s nothing in Lawrence Sanders’ story to make one suppose he’s joining the world of faith in a search for ...

Challenging the Narrative

ICHABOD

“Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast ...

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God’s Riposte to Religious Bigotry

Ruth-less-ness is a state of not being like the biblical Ruth. She was famed for her uncommon capacity for love, ...

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Losing Faith in Translation

There’s a god on the Pentecostal shelf. It needs you to be god. Your faith is it’s fuel. The more ...

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Hidden in Plain Sight

If you merely profess love for God or a belief in Jesus and fail to show love to your neighbour, ...

God Angry Forever? Hell No!

God's love, it would seem, is not based on us being on our best behaviour. It is based on the ...

Intercession – A Conduit for Divine Love

God is just, but let us remember Him also for His unending love and His immeasurable mercy. Let's also remember ...

God Does Not Need Your Faith to be God – Faith Redefined

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Anyone would be forgiven for ...

Letter to St Paul – Invitation To Our Golden Age

Dear Apostle Paul, Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Billy, a gentile of the Church of Jesus Christ ...

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Logic Over Revelation

The word of God is not about replacement, displacement or supercession. It is a journey of reconciliation.

Challenging the Narrative

A Line No One Should Cross

God does not suffer unsolicited advocates gladly. The principle is: If God didn’t say: “This is why I’ve done it,” don’t ...