Fiction Favours the Facts – a collection of 22 Bible-based micro-tales.“When the tally was complete, it took my breath away and a voice kept saying in my head, ‘This can’t be real!’But it was real. There was no doubt about it. 185,000 corpses, and I was the one who had to deal with them.”Assyrian undertaker in “185,000 times 55”“I threw the money back at them and turned away. I can still see the coins b...

A young boy with 11 brothers; favourite of his father; chosen of God.Joseph, Rachel's son, lived a privileged life in Canaan until his jealous brothers sold him into slavery in Egypt. There, the favourite son learned hardship and faced undeserved punishment.Overcoming one trial after another, he finally faces the greatest test of all: power over his brothers. When they bow before him – as prophesied so many years before – will he take revenge, or show the forgiveness that c...

Fiction Favours the Facts – Book 2Some tell of little-known Bible characters, while others concentrate on an incident in the life of one of the more famous Bible characters.Share the experiences of people who met the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel; consider how God’s curse dogged the rebuilding of Jericho; see Jesus as his family saw him; marvel at the faith of a woman who was sure that just touching Jesus’ clothes would heal her.Have you ever wonder...

"I was twenty-one years old when the letter arrived.It was the most exciting letter I ever received.Written in my father's untidy scrawl,it had obviously been sent in the joy of discoveryand his happiness showed in every word.The Book of the Law of God had been found!"King Josiah hea...

Fiction Favours the Facts - Book 3Yet another collection of 22 Bible-based micro-tales. Some tell of little-known Bible characters, while others concentrate on an incident in the life of one of the more famous Bible characters.This new collection of short stories visits the lives of Moses, David, Elijah, Jonah, Daniel, Jesus, Paul, Peter and others, often through the eyes of people who knew them. Eleven stories from the Old Testament matched with eleven fro...

Josiah's tireless work for God continues to the very end, but can a king really change an unwilling nation?Josiah was close to death as the chariot passed out of the valley of Jezreel, and well before the small convoy stopped for the night, the last great king of Judah was dead.Josiah's sons Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim rule after him, and Judah enters moral free fall.As darkness had fallen on me, locked in the stocks, so darkness w...

Terror on Every Side! The Life of Jeremiah: Volume 5 - No Remedy (Volume 5 of 6)by Mark Morgan (Bible Tales Online - www.BibleTales.online)"But [Judah] kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy."2 Chronicles 36:16No-one would believe Jeremiah's words until it was too ...

Terror on Every Side! The Life of Jeremiah: Volume 5 – No Remedy (Volume 5 of 5)Mark Morgan (Bible Tales Online – www.BibleTales.online)"But [Judah] kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy."2 Chronicles 36:16No-one would believe Jeremiah's words until it was too late – and now there is Ter...

Terror on Every Side! The Life of Jeremiah: Volume 4 - The Darkness Deepens (Volume 4 of 6)Mark Morgan (Bible Tales Online - www.BibleTales.online)Jehoiakim's body is dumped outside the gates of Jerusalem, and his son Jeconiah reigns briefly over a city under siege."Nebuchadnezzar's army surrounded Jerusalem, preventing any from coming or going, patiently and methodically strangling the life from a beleaguered city in which supplies, on...

Repeated COVID waves have ravaged Australia, leaving the country fractured and fearful. When Dan and his family learn that the latest COVID-19 outbreak is about to spark yet another indefinite lockdown, they decide to leave Melbourne in a hurry - and where better to go than the beautiful Grampians, where they've enjoyed many past holidays? Yet it's not that easy: the government has pulled back from the old state borders, drawing new boundaries they call margins - and the Grampians are beyo...

The repeated COVID pandemics and the years of trouble that followed have ravaged Australia, leaving the country fractured and society in retreat. In Melbourne, economic troubles and an ongoing fear of even more dangerous strains of the virus have led to increasing isolationism with tighter governmental control.When the government announced new movement restrictions, Dan and his family seized what might be their last chance to escape the city and the shrinking territory of Victoria ...

King Asa has ruled for many years, but his time is running out. The unfortunate mistakes of the past continue to haunt him, and trouble is brewing in Judah.The nation is surrounded by dangerous enemies as the king's health fails and pain weakens his lifelong faith. Enemies from outside the kingdom are surely to be expected, but are there also enemies within? The old king is widely-loved, but his bitter refusal to accept criticism has led him to oppress innocents. Could they be seek...