Paul enjoyed special supernatural experiences with God. Special enough to make anyone brag. But Paul also had a thorn in his flesh. Some allege it was his poor sight. From the Bible we can deduce that Paul couldn’t see well and that this was a problem for him. We can only speculate what the thorn […]
Read moreThe circumstances in which we find ourselves have a significant impact on us. Sometimes those circumstances are so bad that you feel there is absolutely no way out. Paul was in a black hole. He knew the circumstances in Corinth were not good for Christians. There was fighting amongst them as well as opposition from […]
Read moreJames 1:12-18 After the flood of comments on Wednesday about all the hardship we suffer and also because of suffering by loved ones around me this past week, I post this piece that I wrote a year or two ago. Yesterday our domestic worker phoned hysterically: her house had burned down. We rushed there. The […]
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