Merry Christmas to my readers, and all the rest of the world! Tomorrow we shall look back as the Light broke into the world to dispel the darkness. When He came into the world, the world did not know Him, and still does not. But He knows the world, for the world was made through Him.

We shall remember how the Word became flesh, so that the wisdom of the world could be made foolish, and the foolish things of the world could put to shame those who are wise.

We remember that on a starry night was born, in the city of David, a Saviour, the promised Messiah. He came to show why we are not righteous before God, and then He suffered, bled, died, and rose again so that we are able to stand in a right relationship with our Creator, Father God.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty! To Him be all power, majesty, and glory! Read more …

I have not been very active on this website for a while now. I am still here, however, so here is an update about where I am in life at the moment, and what my prospects are.

At the beginning of the year I started to work. I thus left my leisurely student days behind, while not actually having finished my studies. With reasonable expectations, this was going to be a challenging year for me. Read more …

I managed to dig up another map I can use from Wikimedia Commons. Read more …

"News" is that, two weeks ago, I added another map—I just never got around to announcing it. :-P The map shows the boundaries of the kingdom of Herod I "The Great". Read more …

I was suppose to give another TIM talk today, but the flu got me.  It got me bad.  Luckily I'm over the worst of it.  Now it is just rest, rest, rest, rest, rest, rest, rest......  This is actually a great opportunity for me to do the things I can't/don't make time (or enough of it) for normally.  But I guess we'll have to see how my laziness, tiredness, eagerness and guilt balances out in the end. Read more …