[Podcast] Our Perception of People Governs Our Actions
I’ve been thinking these days about how our perception of people changes when we allow ourselves to get to know them. Prefer to read? The content continues below: I read about a woman who was wrongly convicted of murder and spent a number of years on death row. She said the guards weren’t allowed to […]
[Podcast] The Troll Under the Bridge
When we bought our house it was listed as a fixer-upper since it was so long since it had been properly cared for. Once we started cleaning, we discovered many high-end feature that the builder had included, but because of neglect and abuse, it was hard to tell. Prefer to read? The content continues below: […]
Psalm 7:10 – My Shield
Many years ago, a godly man travelled to Burma to help distribute Bibles with the Gideon society. Because of an oppressive government, all of the Gideon Bibles had been removed from the hotel rooms. One night, the man attended a meeting of the local Gideons to talk about how they could get the Bibles back […]
Psalm 5:8 – Real Righteousness
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. “What food might this contain?” the mouse wondered. He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a […]
Psalm 3:5 – The Lord Sustains Me
The book ‘When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present’ by Sue Augustine is full of encouraging stories. This is one of them: An experiment was done with two groups of people who had to hold their hands in a bucket of ice water for three minutes. The first group were told about the three minute […]
[Podcast] Not Shaken By The Storm
These days, many of the conversations around me center on questions about Covid. What are the numbers for today? What phase are we in? What about school and work? What about..? What if ….? I don’t know about you, but those conversations make me feel like I’m on a little, storm-tossed boat and the circumstances […]