I woke up with eternity on my mind. Maybe because I dreamt about my cousin who passed in 2018 although the dream was very "earthly" and had nothing to do with eternity or God, even. It was a dream about changing baby nappies in a hospital and later about helping…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3VmaAU44N2ADq0v4bil3w9?si=fKgZMVrUQEqBGtO7diYt4g The story of the prodigal son is a difficult one for me. Not because of the actual prodigal son but because of his older brother who seems to get a really bad wrap whenever this story comes up. Luke recounts the story in Chapter 15:11-32 of his book as…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NE1gZ8OJ6shOTZcSfHYGE?si=gvjbqoNDRGyf9RUY2EELOQ Ahab is recorded to have been the 8th king of Israel. The record of him in scripture is that he was more wicked than all the kings who had come before him, and boy there had been wicked kings before him! The author of the book (believed to be…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/51kNYMhJH0Gd9arni2TE9z?si=OLA0xvW6QlaqrOZUu80swQ Are we really exercising free will, or has God chosen His people beforehand? Should anybody bother to pray for “lost” souls, and should anybody bother preaching to anyone if they simply cannot come to salvation if they are not part of those God has predestined? Tough questions, and if…
Ahithophel is one of those Bible characters the average person is likely to have heard of but can’t quite tell what the deal about him really is. He’s not a popular jock like Moses or Judas. But he should be. Because Ahithophel is each of us at some point in…
My last blog post was made on December 2022. I had no idea it’d take me 2 whole years to write again. In fact, I wrote an almost-complete piece in 2023 which didn’t make it here, and unsuccessfully tried again in 2024. This year, I have resolved by all means…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/15Z504fT1NQlttOn6UZ2Ay?si=rL4B39FcRVGW8XAA3xY4JA I don't recall what triggered it. I simply recall sitting at my desk on a Monday morning, a little after work had begun; and I recall earnestly wanting to communicate this opinion without the possibility of limitation in the understanding of whoever was reading. I called it a rant,…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/50CYvwfxpAxAWbfCIo2pPH?si=BsQt9vE2QFGbohqpcXK_mw People. If there was one thing Jesus was about, at least if the gospels are anything to go by, it was people. Of all the great men who walked the face of the earth, who left their imprints in the sands of time, who were recorded in the books…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7nu1f0IZ5PkmdvEg9X2tWn?si=V2Jm4OwRQau_ENEzgomxXQ Quite frankly, I have been up to my neck in this topic for long, and as much as I find it a crucial part of understanding life and purpose (both as a woman and as a man who has or intends to have a wife), I find that the…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/44b3r63hlRFKg3BfGyk2Qn?si=J_zzGPhlTBmOY2cx88oyQg “19 During the night this woman’s son died because she lay on him. 20 So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I, your servant, was asleep. She put him by her breast and put her dead son by my breast. 21 The next…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Stf1YP2rhmI5unFk0faYn?si=AK9OvydhQjKfrd3KiqpxIg Lamped Feet Newsletter - "I SAW YOU NATHANAEL"Download Within the past few days, I have contemplated not publishing this post. Three out of four of the people who proofread and/or review for me thought there was ‘something missing’, or that it did not have my usual flow. And although…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1kjkD4mQ96Y4oSzcbyw6xs?si=go5Obk0wRs-f4DVDn2_d3A As I have sat behind my screen to wrap this series up, I have struggled with how to bring it to a close. We started with questions we could not initially find answers to, and ended up last week in a place of sympathy for Saul and his insecurity,…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/16ltYw68S0Gka7476rxmqY?si=t-lcFY0AQW-AFyoUHPtNhA Sometime last year, I chanced upon a quote by Francis Chan that stirred me up to much thinking. I screenshot it with no clear plan on what to do with it, and never actually posted it anywhere. It was not until a few weeks ago when I chanced upon…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4c1OjLia3OLfEyqe37dsJE?si=OV8Ptk8TRZGzn2rxSUwzxA Paul the Apostle was a teacher of many things in the early church. Of head bopping and rhythmic babbles on the lips, maybe not, but somewhere along the lifeline of certain families of the Church, intensity and deep prayer became equivalent to this intriguing sight to behold. In 2006,…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3VFNLyCBhTTaZVw9RCfEpU?si=_RQGe9aCRxiUQiaW57EgVA Saul had just left the High Priest’s in Jerusalem. He had with him letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus asking for ‘followers of the Way’ to be returned to Jerusalem in chains. You know the story.🙂 When he had almost hit Damascus, the Lord Jesus interrupted his journey.…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5puJIzXXPVcJvH7OigfWWY?si=rS2fcMCRQxiK8LDuO3Upnw It was in King Belshazzar’s reign that the famous hand wrote on the wall - ‘Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin’. It spoke of Nebuchadnezzar’s beloved Babylon, and it meant ‘Numbered, Numbered, Weighed, Divided.’ That very night, Belshazzar was killed, and his kingdom taken by 62year old Darius who was from…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Lx1GlwJYvSu4NK0bkqb9N?si=Rhg9DpaEQEu27PcOB2Kykg When John recounted the events of Jesus’ life in his gospel, he recorded a prayer Jesus made that the other gospels chose not to recount. Just before Jesus is arrested in Chapter 17, He makes a heartfelt request to God for all his disciples: 20 “I am praying not only…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/24v1GSARJC26nckBBPGCVi?si=EWosEiA5TWSN-pdjajOioQ We hear very little about James the author of the book of James in the New Testament; and if you’re not one who owns or uses a hardcopy bible, you probably don’t know that it’s a tiny book squeezed between Hebrews and Peter’s books. James was a rather brutal…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0mrppXcfAWCpJCk5PAHWkq?si=FdAeYLyeQeSRx_ZrLROyCA In prayer last week, I pondered on Psalm 1:3. Of course, it’s a verse we’ve all seen over and over again, but something struck me about it as I read it then. Psalm 1:1-3 reads: [Ps 1:1] Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the…
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6rkdMLFkQczBDfYaswwQD7?si=WsmqkgN9S9OkBaa5Iigtiw I have been thinking on Uzzah and his predicament for some days now. Uzzah was one of the sons of Abinadab. Abinadab was the man into whose house the Ark of the Covenant was sent after it had been captured for 7months by the Philistines in war. It had…