I was so shocked when I visited Jersey and discovered that during World War II, numerous islanders wrote anonymous letters to the Gestapo, denouncing those selling or hoarding food; sheltering or offering help to escaped slave laborers; or listening to the BBC radio....
The inhabitants of the Chanel Islands had a huge dilemma. The Nazis were heading straight for them, and Great Britain had decided not to defend Jersey and Guernsey. The cost of life would be exorbitant! However, Great Britain offered the Islanders the opportunity to...
Have you ever been on the wrong side of the fence? Maybe something you did wrong, a bad decision, and the world just seemed to collapse around you for no reason.I remember feeling that way when I was twelve years old. My class went to our local swimming pool for our...
"But the angel said to her, 'Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.'" (Luke 1:30-31, NIV2)Can we imagine being in Mary's position? She was a young girl of about 13 to 16 years of...
"What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet. But sin, seizing the...
"In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves...
"'Does that mean I can't even trust what is good [that is, the law]? Is good just as dangerous as evil?' No again! Sin simply did what sin is so famous for doing: using the good as a cover to tempt me to do what would finally destroy me. By hiding within God's good...