Böcker av Stephen Jager

The entire Bible books and letters of Ruth . Job . Psalms . Proverbs . Ecclesiastes . Song of Songs . Mark . James . I John in rhyme.I've been getting up at 5 am since I was a kid, to study the scriptures and to pray. In these latter years I have resorted to rhyme favourite passages and books for two reasons: Firstly because scripture more and more speaks to me in a type of lyricism, and secondly; because it slows down my reading pace so I can spend the time meditating on each line, if not each word.The process has subsequently blessed me with insights I would not have otherwise gleaned just through reading. I hope you enjoy reading these aloud as much as I am still in the habit of doing. God bless.

Two ordinary men who dislike each other, are given ultimate power to punish the world's evils for 42 months, only if they are agreed. But when three ruthless agents are unleashed to stop them, they are forced to learn the true meaning of reconciliation, before their plagues plunge the entire world into an irreversible abyss.Ben's life is perfect. He is about to propose to his girlfriend when the taxi he's in, crashes. Both he, and the abrasive driver James, spend eleven seconds inside the explosion where they are given power from God to punish the world for its wrongs.Using fire as a portal, Ben and James travel to different parts of the world to exact their plagues - but only if they are both agreed. They recruit an ambitious reporter to encourage the world to go down on its knees and reconcile with their Creator. Now with the entire world's satellites pointed at them, three agents are unleashed to cut short their time by any means possible. They eventually set a trap to separate the pair.Ben is forced to exercise the greatest weapon available to man, to set himself and the world free from the plagues. A weapon so powerful, that it not only alters the past, but also the future, ultimately spiralling the world to reconcile with itself.

"The faculty of rationality inclines dangerously to pride, when it says; 'all I know is all that needs to be known.'" - Dr. Jordan PetersenWriting, to me at least, is reflecting, thinking, learning and asking. Much of the questions we ask circles around questions of justice. What is just? What is right? What is fair? Once we can answer these questions we may know the path to salvation, and what better salvation is there, than being gifted Eternal Life?And so I continue to scrutinize and interrogate the mechanisms my fellow man employ to somehow earn that salvation for themselves. What are these curious washing machines they buy to cleanse them from a dirt that never seem to dissipate?They're just essays. They won't hurt.Much.

Life is an interview with God. It's too short to be anything else. Do well in the interview, and get eternal life. Deliberately stuff it up, and you get your seventy odd years before kicking the bucket.I say deliberately, for you have to expand an enormous amount of energy to reject the Son of God. And if seventy odd years is all you want, then I challenge the honesty of that answer, for are we not surrounded with people addicted to longevity?It's hard for a book to be one thing. Invariable its intertwined with religion, philosophy and capturing age old wisdoms with new language. Because of the nature of creative thoughts it is intertwined with one's beliefs, the rules laid down for existence is always adopted from someone else, which means one question remains; do we shape our lives according to finite mortal men, or an immortal infinite God?