A young man searching for a life that demanded everything from him.What followed was life inside one of the world's most mythologised fighting forces — the French Foreign Legion.From brutal training grounds to deployments across Africa, Mackenzie experienced the Legion beyond the legend: the discipline, the camaraderie, the exhaustion — and the moments when life and death balanced on a knife's edge. Among men from more than a hundred nations, he trained, marched, p...

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...

A young man searching for a life that demanded everything from him.What followed was life inside one of the world’s most mythologised fighting forces — the French Foreign Legion.From brutal training grounds to deployments across Africa, Mackenzie experienced the Legion beyond the legend: the discipline, the camaraderie, the exhaustion — and the moments when life and death balanced on a knife’s edge. Among men from more than a hundred nations, he trained, marched, p...

Terror on Every Side! The Life of Jeremiah: Volume 6 - That Broken Reed (Volume 6 of 6)Mark Morgan (Bible Tales Online - www.BibleTales.online)The leaders of the pitiful remnants of Judah's army reject God's command to stay in Judah. Afraid of Nebuchadnezzar and his hordes, they flee to Egypt, taking Jeremiah and Baruch with them - against their will. After making the long journey south, they hope to find peace and safety in Egypt. Yet God's plans have not changed, and Jere...

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 from the New Testame...

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.Jeconiah surrenders and King Nebuchadnezzar takes him to Babylon – as Jeremiah had predicted – along with thousands of others.Zedekiah promises to be Nebuchadnezzar’s vassal, but is weak and easil...

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 was falling on Judah."But wh...

“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 discovery and his happiness showed in every word.The Book of the Law of God had been found!”King Josiah hears the words of God and everything starts to change.Idolatry is forced to take a backward step and the true servants of God have some breathing space.Let the Passover celebra...

A first book of Bible-based micro-tales“Fiction Favours the Facts” is a collection of the first 22 micro-tales from the Bible Tales Newsletter.Micro-tales? What are they? Short stories about Bible characters or events.Bible-based fiction – the facts of the Bible rounded out with imaginative detail to help us recognise the lives and feelings of real people.Some are about Bible characters you have never heard of, while others concentrate on an incident in the ...

Terror on Every Side! The Life of Jeremiah: Volume 5 – No Remedy (Volume 5 of 6)Mark Morgan (Bible Tales Online – www.BibleTales.online)No-one would believe Jeremiah's words until it was too late - and then there was Terror on Every Side! The cruel Babylonian army waits outside the city and King Zedekiah can't make up his mind what to do. Jeremiah advises surrender, but has Zedekiah the courage to obey?Food and water are running out and Jeremiah's enemies blame him ...

Some 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 wondered how Hosea came to marry a prostitute? Hosea’s Story migh...

"Chapter 1 – My BirthdayIt was on my seventeenth birthday that I first heard – or felt – God’s voice. In those days, we seemed to have a happy extended family in Anathoth and I was welcome in it. Times are different now…"From a family of priests in the peaceful reign of good King Josiah, came a young man Jeremiah, bringing words from God to his people. It was no message for the fainthearted, either. It was a message of Terror on Every Side!A young king and a young p...