Pools in the Desert

It's Christmas Day at last! Hurray! Hallelujah! Not like we've ever experienced before and probably most of us aren't able to have a...

When Mary and Joseph took Jesus to the Temple as a baby, one of the people who prophesied about him turned to Mary and said that a sword...

We saw previously that Mary accepted the role of becoming the mother of the Messiah, despite the major disruption and misunderstanding...

Mary was a young lady who had grown up in a village in Galilee. She was probably thought of as nothing special and the idea of anything...

As we approach Christmas, we sometimes have a thought for the turkeys. If you eat meat, then you will perhaps consider the death of your...

I was always taught that it's rude to point. Well at least, pointing at someone is impolite, but pointing to somebody is completely...

For the third week in Advent we consider John the Baptist. He was so significant that we shall devote the whole of this week to him. ...

All Christians are friends of Jesus, but when he was living on Earth the person who became closest to him in practice was John, one of...

As a young man, Isaiah started to hear God and began to speak prophetically. He also decided to record some of these prophecies in...

Have you ever made a promise to someone? Most probably you have. Have you always kept your promises? I would guess that some didn't get...

Our last patriarch is Isaac's younger son, Jacob. Now we learn from his story (which can be found in Genesis chapter 25, verse 19 to...

Abraham's second son was named Isaac, which means 'he will laugh'. The laughs of disbelief from his parents when told that they would...

OK, Advent anyway! That's definitely happening or else we won't have Christmas, so it's an adventure that we're tying to find. Advent...