The light of the world

There are times in life when you really need a light. Driving home from Brisbane through last nightโ€™s intense rainstorms, as an east coast low sat stationery over the central coast, I was increasingly grateful for my own carโ€™s headlights, the hazard lights of other cars, and those little โ€œcatโ€™s eyesโ€ embedded in the motorway, as …

The fountain of private prosperity

Open a Bible near the centre, and you will find the Book of Psalms. In many ancient manuscripts, the first psalm in the collection was apparently unnumbered, untitled, and printed in red ink to indicate that it frames and prefaces the whole Psalter, Israel's primary songbook. Psalm 1 is both a wisdom psalm, showing us …