Try to imagine how distant our loved ones could be before Facetime Skype texting email even telephoning Then you can better appreciate the desperation of a colonial device one attempted far before its time It rsquo s retrieved in Malcolm Gaskill rsquo s Between Two Worlds How the English Bec

nbsp This is the seventeenth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles This post examines a conflict between Hellenists and Hebraioi both groups of Jesus rsquo disciples divided on linguistic grounds and the choosing of seven to serve the needs of the Hellenists r

Most of us can picture a life preferable to the one we have Some of us spend entirely too time doing that We scarcely notice the details of the dream changing but the imagined life is even more variable than the real one The only constant seems the stubbornness of God in not granting our wishes

The psychological health of a saint tells us nothing about the God who normally guides, but sometimes supersedes, the natural order.

This is the sixteenth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles This post examines the second arrest of the disciples of Jesus in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount For previous entries please now go to the Complete Acts of the Apostle Commentary where you can find links

The morning of April 22 1915 French and Canadian soldiers were immovably entrenched to the north of Ypres a Belgian city in the Flemish province of West Flanders nbsp They saw a strange green-yellow cloud form above the opposing German trenches It then billowed across no man rsquo s land into