Wednesday, 20 February 2013



Saint Joanna
Joanna is a woman mentioned in the gospels who was healed by Jesus and later supported him and his disciples in their travels. She was the wife of Chuza, who managed the household of Herod Antipas, the king of Galilee. Wikipedia

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Herod the Great.


 I thought I would start a catalogue of some of the characters in the book with links taken straight from the net:


Herod the Great
Herod, also known as Herod the Great, was a Roman client king of Judea. His epithet of "the Great" is widely disputed as he is described as "a madman who murdered his own family and a great many rabbis." Wikipedia

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

We often think that God exists to make our dreams come true; the reality is that we have been created to fulfill His purposes.... and that is to prevent as many people from going to Hell as possible.

Monday, 26 March 2012

Herod the Great.

       Herod, king of Judea (part of Palestine): What do we know about the famed king who has been accused through the ages of slaughtering 'all male children, two years and younger'? What would have driven a grown man to send soldiers to commit such an atrocity? What could have been his mental profile? If he chose to use his position of power to kill without remorse, could he have done it before? If so, whom else did he kill? How many could he have killed?Herod is hardly remembered for the great building projects he had undertaken, his hippodromes, his amphitheaters, his great harbor on shores of the Mediterranean Sea, which till today is considered an engineering marvel of his days...How did the mind of someone capable of creating such beauty and yet also so much bloodshed in his own family, work?