Posts By: Les

Selective memory – how crowds think, or don’t!

There is a very perceptive comment in the first Men in Black film. Edwards (the junior agent) says; “Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it.” To which Kay (the senior agent) replies; “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals and you know it.” Kay makes a valid point. Human… Read more »

The ‘passion’ of Jesus Christ

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy. (Hebrews 1.9) There are three phrases which deal with passion. You have loved righteousness; You have hated iniquity; God has anointed you with the oil of joy. Although Christ came… Read more »

“No one is allowed to know what would have happened!”

“To know what would have happened, child?” said Aslan. “No. Nobody is ever told that.” So writes C S Lewis in Prince Caspian. The Bible rarely tells us what would have happened if a person had taken a different decision. One exception is found in 2 Kings 13. Elisha instructed the king to strike the… Read more »