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“I am Cattle, a Coward, I seek only warmth and to eat my fill”

“I am Cattle, a Coward, I seek only warmth and to eat my fill”

In his novel Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn sends us a chilling warning on why nations, even those with strong democracies like our own, slide into Totalitarianism. It starts with individual citizens. It starts with you and I dear reader..

  • Are you really listening?

    “Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.” —Bernard Baruch

  • If God is good, why is the world evil?

    Nothing saddens me more than to hear of people who having come to Christ decide to turn away from him.

  • Desperate times call for desperate measures

    We are living in truly extraordinary times. As I pen this article, two of the most powerful nations in the world are at war, or on a war footing; Russia against Ukraine and China significantly escalating tensions and its war-footing with Ukraine.

  • Children are not Commodities

    I had trouble getting to sleep the night I watched the world premiere of These Little Ones. It runs for less than an hour, but what a disturbing hour of film making it is.

  • Swamidass on the genealogical Adam and Eve

    The first page of Genesis has been the source of much heated debate over the recent decades. The two camps being the young earth creationism and evolutionary theory.

  • Show me a straight river

    I can’t lay claim to this title, nor lay claim to have read the book it comes from. I heard about this book on a podcast by the author and the theme of it has been bouncing around in my head ever since.

  • Part 2 - The great inheritance: Kingdom thoughts

    In part one of this series, I talked about what being a child of God looks like and what it entails. I also talked about how we as children of God can overcome the worry and doubt in our lives through Jesus Christ who gives us peace.

  • Let’s Go to Church

    Spiritual but no religious is increasingly common, but how realistic is this one might wonder. It could be said that such is just a meme, an excuse, a phase, or something in between.

  • The dangers of cultural Marxism.

    Cultural Marxism is beginning to raise its ugly head and the church is not immune from it.

  • Nice doesn’t mean good: Challenge in the church

    We’re too comfortable. That’s why we stagnate.

  • Flourishing in a Dry and Weary Land

    As I’ve been meditating and thinking on what to write this month, I felt compelled to expand on my previous article (which can be found here). The primary driver of this was my own life over the past month, which can be summarised quite well by Dallas Williard: