by Jonni Turner | Aug 31, 2021 | Holy Words
If you are serious about life and learning, asking questions becomes a way of life. That goes for everything you see and hear and otherwise sense in the world. It doubly goes for second-hand information in all its forms: books, television, digital information and...
by Jonni Turner | May 31, 2021 | Holy Words
The title question is deceptive. Since God is omnipresent, he is always near. The real question is why you are not aware of it. But God is not all that goes missing in the ticking minutes of your life. At any given time, the average human being is only conscious of...
by Jonni Turner | Oct 31, 2020 | Holy Words
When judges are in the headlines, questions arise about how divine law and secular law relate to each other. Then there is the question of how divine law relates to your own life, the way you are judged and the way you judge others. This is of special interest when...
by Jonni Turner | Jul 31, 2020 | Holy Words
Are you one of those blessed by the mystical? Perhaps you believe it’s beyond you or that it doesn’t exist at all. Mystical experience, or the sudden awareness of God’s presence, is a common phenomenon in the lives of human beings. Yet it’s almost completely missing...
by Jonni Turner | Oct 31, 2019 | Holy Words
When it comes to working or creating, I am a planner, a plodder, and too often a procrastinator. As a writer and radio producer with deadlines to meet, I could cut to the chase when necessary, but it wasn’t my preferred way of doing things. What happens, though, when...
by Jonni Turner | Jun 30, 2019 | Holy Words
Keeping your own ideas and thoughts to the forefront when reading the Bible is a little like being that person who hears without listening during a conversation. You are just waiting for someone to finish so you can have your say. (Yes, I have been guilty of this,...