On February 22^nd 2014, I entered the blogosphere with my first blog, which I titled: “Hello World”. What I am writing now is blog number 2300. I have used my writing bent to write about what I see going on around me when, as I must, and with reference to a book I wrote some years ago, go “outside the camp”.

As folk who follow me will know, my major writing project (likely my last) is writing a three-part book to be titled “Priests of the Bible” – Part 1: the Priesthood, Part 2: the Priests, Part 3: a Priestly People. This article follows two Israel related articles following the 7^th October attacks: “Israel and Calvinism – two hot potatoes” and “Israel at war and what is happening in Israel today”.  

The following is the latest chapter to appear in my forthcoming book: “Priests of the Bible”.

Yesterday, I learned of the death of my old friend, Ron Wright.

What follows is an addendum to something I posted four months ago relating to my testimony (see here) and I intend to be included in my forthcoming book: “Priests of the Bible“.

In this latest chapter in my Priests of the Bible project, I reflect on what the Bible has to teach us concerning sacrifices and offerings.

For the past two months, forget football, forget cricket, for my sporting interest has been primarily been to do with following the 2023 (men’s) Rugby (Union) World Cup, played in France. Last night I watched (on ITV, whose coverage throughout the tournament has been excellent) the final between the two foremost rugby nations – South Africa and New Zealand. And now we know – South Africa are once again the world champions but, in our looking back, let’s start from the beginning …

One of my daily “watchman” activities is to check out a number of Telegram channels. One is that of Laura Aboli (click here for her Telegram channel). Something she wrote, touched me to the core …

When I was growing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s and began to follow the beautiful game of football at a professional club and international level, I had two stand out heroes from an English perspective – Jimmy Greaves, who died two years ago, and Bobby Charlton, who died earlier in the week.

According to my first Google hit: a hot potato is “a controversial issue or situation which is awkward to deal with”. Israel and Calvinism definitely fits the bill. So why talk about two seemingly unrelated subjects with the likelihood no-one will agree with me entirely and some will strongly disagree and could be offended?