Galatians 5:19-21

DARK TIMES, DARK TROUBLEMAKER

(September 30, 2025) Robert McQuillan shares sincerely…

Continually there’s bad news… dark news on TV! More robberies, killings, troubles, sinning, not just by adult men and women of various ages but also by kids!

Society is concerned that many caught criminals are not dealt with by courts as expected, that TV news reports that some already on bail are immediately re-released on bail. Our own state here has thousands of unsolved crimes and one really feels for the police. Then there’s the ongoing concern of possible world war…

Scripture and Satan’s Opponent
Dark days all around, dark deception, and a dark deceiver behind it all.

But… an opening question in this article— do people, even Christians really realise that there is a particular dark force behind all that’s not right in the world today, a force that’s always been behind humanity’s darkness, stirring people to commit atrocities?

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THIEVING – WORSE THAN MURDERING?

(September 25, 2019) Robert and Maureen McQuillan share some ‘Food for thought’…

Well – did that this blog’s title get your attention or not? Probably did. So what’s it all about? Let’s share the background – and then bring out some challenges…

It’ll soon be two months since we moved into our new home in Melbourne and a thoughtful man called the other day to do some maintenance just as we were going out to an appointment that couldn’t be cancelled.

Now we’d already meet this chap and ‘liked what we’d seen’ – so we made a decision to allow him to work away in our home even though we wouldn’t be there. Asking him to kindly lock up, we quipped, ‘Of course security cameras are everywhere so our “millions of dollars” will be safe!’

We were joking of course – but his response blew us away! Looking us straight in the eye he said very seriously: ‘You know what… I’d rather be caught as a murderer than as a thief. Thieving is a terrible thing!’

Wow! Thieving worse than murder in his vocabulary and he’s not a churchgoer! Our new friend got us thinking… of wrongdoing from God’s point of view! For example… a lie of any kind, big or small, is still considered a lie by God and any crime is a crime. In his eyes a sin is a sin whether it’s murder or stealing.

Thieving – it’s off grounds for God’s people!
Dictionaries described this word to mean the activity of stealing. That’s thieving in a nutshell! (more…)