Misguided Love for Jesus – Misguided Fear of God

Over the years different people have asked me in different ways about the reality and work of Satan the devil and sin. Questions such as, “How come God allowed this to happen in the first place?” Or, “Why didn’t God get rid of Satan when he first sinned so as to prevent it from spreading into the world?”  Some have been all …

The Great Harm Done to God’s Reputation

Twenty plus years ago, one of the most common statements made to me by fifteen to seventeen year-old Secondary College students from Christian Schools went something like, “The story of Creation, Adam & Eve, Noah and the flood – they’re all just myths & legends, they’re not literally true … they didn’t literally happen.”  I would ask, “Did …

Tools & Slaves in the Hands of The Angel of Light

An elderly lady suffering with cancer phoned to thank me for visiting her the day before, and for, “taking away my worries and fears.”  She said, “When you walked into the room, it was as though God came in, it was written all over your face.”  Then she asked me if I could call again soon, because, “I …

Free From the Pain of Ostracism

Some weeks after I had submitted myself to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, my family and I visited a Roman Catholic family.  We had been invited to lunch in celebration of one of their children who had that morning made his first communion, a rather auspicious occasion in the eyes of Roman Catholic people.  This particular family are very religious, being proud of the …

Tell God

Like many young boys of my era growing up, I smoked my first full cigarette at around ten years of age and I loved it. By the time I was fifteen they were very much part of my life and remained so until I was almost forty.  Especially did I love them when drinking alcohol.   Just a …

Prove it

The lady looked to be in her mid-thirties and was of southern European heritage.  She told me that she, “used to go to church,” but had not done so for many years.  She had guilt written all over her when telling me this.  She went on to say that she had been divorced for fourteen years, she …

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