I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.” The LORD said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? When I took up God’s challenge …
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. Contemporary ideas about perfection often looks very different to the way the Old and New Testaments went about things. The story of David being anointed as Israel’s future king by …
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground”…God saw all that he had made, and …
How did your journey start? It doesn’t have to have any spiritual basis, but I suspect if you do look at life as an unfolding journey there will, at some level, be something outside of your own thought patterns that has influenced where you now find yourself. Obviously for some this question is unlikely to have a satisfactory answer …
Having made the decision to write a sequel to Road to Damascus (RtD from here on in) I needed to find some material to fill its pages. But in actual fact it wasn’t even the question of what goes into a sequel that rendered my fevered brain inactive, but rather the questions of, do I really want …
So my human ‘mum’ had big plans for me, that much I knew from a very early age. 12 years later I’m heading for old age having rarely been parted from her. What happened in between? Work! Hard work! Well maybe not, but every time that harness came over my head I knew playtime was …
Can you judge a book by its cover? I am not going to attempt to answer that question directly, but instead will tell you how I came by my dog. I have always wanted a dog, although as a child I was petrified of them. All that changed when I found myself sitting next to a …
This week I was asked to prepare a talk for a group of disability and development students on the subject of “Disability within the Family” (or there abouts). The Professor, a friend of mine, said she thought of me because she had read my book “Road to Damascus”, and figured a personal account would be just the ticket. “Hum, …
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Last week I watched with sadness a programme on BBC2 called “Kill the Christians”, a ‘This Wold’ documentary looking at Christianity’s greatest threat to its existence in the very place where it was born. The programme featured the ancient settlement of Maaloula, one of a handful of villages in the mountains northeast of Damascus where Aramaic, …
“I do. Because without them no one knows if the book I spent four years of my life writing is worth a few days reading.” So imagine my delight, and panic, when someone offered to write a professional review of my book in exchange for me doing the same for them. “Of course, no problem!” I …