Thomas Lievesley Rowlands. My paternal grandfather. A man of few words. Quiet by nature. Born to a family of millers in Bristol, England. A son of Victorian England in style and manner. Regarding faith, a Quaker. Emigrated to South Africa…
There is a great deal of debate today on how the Christian should live, dissecting the New Testament, separating the words of Jesus from other New Testament writers, and assigning different values to different authors or passages. Rather arrogant of…
Rita and I were living in San Diego when the prophetic ministry of Keith Green took the contemporary Christian music scene by storm. I still listen to some of his songs. One of them is the title of this blog.…
The wheel was first introduced in human history around 3500 BC by potters, but likely not used for transportation until 3000 BC. So, by Moses' day and the exodus (1440 BC), it would have been fairly common to see crude…
When our girls were in elementary school, and a grey Northwest winter was getting the better of us, we would all go to the Family Fun Center, here in Edmonds, to play games and ride go-karts. Besides "Frogger," my favorite…
I was in Phoenix for a few days last week with my adult daughter, Kathryn, when her back went out on her. I mean, out! On the floor, unable to move, roll over or sit up. After an hour of…
I know I've read it dozens of times, but for some reason it didn't hit me until this morning. Moses sent his wife, Zipporah, and their two sons back to her father's house in Midian before the exodus from Egypt.…
Imagine with me that you are riding a bus... a normal city transit bus. Wait with me at the bus stop. Watch for your bus to arrive. And when it stops climb aboard with me. You look around for a…
When many of us hear the phrase, "signs of the times," our minds are programmed to think of Biblical prophecy and predictions of the identity of the anti-christ, by years of end time sermons. I just ran into that phrase…
Most vestiges of a Biblical worldview are long gone as a governing influence over our culture. When I first arrived in this country in 1966, for good or ill, there was a general acceptance of at least a Biblical sense…