Jerry Fisher

unlocking doors

Throughout this whole phenomenon we call life and the human condition, there are two concepts that seem to overshadow all that we know and do upon the earth: success and failure. Whether male, female, old, young, married, single, rich, poor...

Eschatological escapism

There is a time in Israelite history known as the Late Second Temple Period, which spans roughly from the Maccabean war of 166 BCE to the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem in 70 CE. According to historians, this...

Don't hang with the Bandar-log

One of the literary masters of lore and nature was Rudyard Kipling. His seminal collection of short stories, The Jungle Book, was published in 1894, and remains popular to this day through many different mediums of comics, film, and stage...

Growing fruits, earning coins

A parable from Matthew and Luke: While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once...

Into the cauldron III

Stories are beginning to circulate that North Korea has agreed to release Robert Park. According to North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Park has recanted and repented from his earlier criticisms of the North Korea's...

Journeys through darkness

(Gonna take another break from the ‘nets we cast’ series to write up an article about William’s Styron’s Darkness Visible, and then put some Christian spin on it) In 1990, Pulitzer prize winning novelist...

The nets we cast (part five)

This is the fifth article in the ‘nets we cast’ series. The first, second, third, and forth articles can be found through their respective links. In this series, we are revolving around the story in Luke 5:1...

The nets we cast (part four)

This is the fourth article of the ‘nets we cast’ series. The first, second, and third articles can be found through their respective links. We’ll continue on with an allegorical look at Luke 5:1-11...

The nets we cast (part three)

This is the third article for ‘the nets we cast’ series. To recap, we are revolving around the story in Luke 5:1-11 where Jesus calls his first disciples from the sea of Galilee. The spirit in...

Flipping the coin

(Taking a break from the current ‘nets we cast’ series. There has been a lot of very tragic and pressing news recently. And I applaud all the good folks who have given their time, money, attention and prayers...

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