Bøger af 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.

As a corrupt shipyard boss struggles to force the feisty nun who banned him from church to relent so the mob will induct him, she tries to make him a better man until the mob is ready to kill her... and he is ready to die for her.Devout Catholic Girolamo Vizzini runs NYC's docks with an iron fist. Like his father before him, Giro is proud he's about to be accepted into the Cosca, the city's largest crime organization. Giro keeps a blind eye to the contraband that comes into port, and the Cosca boys help him control his workers. But when a worker disappears and Giro is suspected, Teresa, the feisty young nun who runs the orphanage, bans Giro from church. The scandal makes the Cosca nervous. They postpone his initiation until he can convince Teresa to let him back in.Thinking Teresa would owe him a huge favor, Giro rubs out Vince, the Cosca recruiter who's been poaching Teresa's orphans. To Giro's consternation, the crazy, ungrateful nun is horrified. She isn't like anyone he knows. She can't be swayed by a gun to the jugular or a wad of cash for church repairs. Things go from bad to worse when Giro's bride is murdered on their wedding day. Now with the truth of Teresa's message sinking in, Giro sets out to make himself a better man by cleansing the docks of corruption, the consequences of which would not only ruin Teresa's reputation, but threaten her life as well as his.Can he save her and have a shot at ultimate redemption?

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.

When a reclusive lawyer fails to stop the death of a child at the hands of a judge dispensing a rigorous and uncompromising law, he vows vengeance by setting out to change one amendment to the constitution that will dismantle the foundation of the world.Except for courier vehicles and kitchen trucks that dot the otherwise deserted city streets, Vienna 2.0 is a massive sprawling urban expanse sometime in the near future. Its inhabitants are cocooned in the custom-made worlds brought about by the convenience of the automation of virtual technology. Even the execution for breaking the law is automated, and only a real fear for those who venture outside their apartments.JESSE CODA, a retired judge, lives alone and occasionally baby-sits his neighbour's kid. One day the boy ventures outside in search of his father and is executed because of rigorous and uncompromising law. Jesse vows to avenge his death.The first thing he does is to open the first restaurant in a reclusive city. He invites the dregs, the untouchables of society, the homeless, to revive the tradition of eating together. He uses the restaurant to also get them back online and back into operating within society. This of course draws the attention of the authorities which brings Jesse face to face with old enemies.As a retired judge Jesse claims his right to one amendment to the constitution, which causes all crimes, past and future be punished with immediate effect - and yet leaving only one person to be executed for the punishments of the world - himself.With all fear of consequence now removed, a new world begins for the untouchables.

Ted's promised to take his daughter to the beach. No fatal car accident, nor Heaven's agents, nor his decaying body he's had to re-posses, is going to stop him.Once a conscientious family man, Ted now lives the mundane existence of selling insurance. Alongside his abrasive alcoholic wife Marianne, and their now fourteen-year old daughter, a dysfunctional straight-A student Rosie, they pass each other like three ghost-ships in the night.Ted dies in a car crash and lands in Heaven's waiting room. His conversation with the old man next to him fills him with a lifetime of regret - in particular a childhood promise of taking his Rosie to the beach which he has never fulfilled. The old man suggests Ted escape to fulfil his promise. Reluctant at first, Ted runs and takes the first vortex down to earth. Now being invisible, the first thing Ted has to do is reclaim his dead body, which proves difficult. Re-possessing it at least returns some elasticity but does not prevent the decay.Breaking into his own house with two of Heaven's agents now hot on his heels, Ted manages to thwart his wife and abduct his daughter. He'll explain when she wakes after having fainted, but at least they're on the road to Long Beach California.Ted and Rose reacquaint as they confide their regrets whilst discovering the advantages of 'zombie-hood' during their road trip.But now with three motorcades following, wanted in two states, Rose is increasingly endangered by her own father. Between Ted's escalating bouts of cannibalistic rage, will he be able to fulfil his promise before he complete falls apart?

"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.

A conscientious family man instantly 'resurrects' every time he dies, leaving behind dead replicas of himself, unaware that someone close to him, is trying to kill him.Adam is an atom-scientist that's just invented the atom-laser. He is also a very meek and attentive family man who adores his rather eccentric tween daughter. Yet for all his efforts to impress his family, it's not reciprocal. Mainly because his wife, deep down, hates his guts.Then one day, in one of those activities designed to 'impress', Adam sky-dives. His parachute doesn't open and he dies. BUT almost immediately his body resurrects itself, leaving on the ground, a dead replica of himself.Adam tries to expose this phenomenon but loses his body. When he dies a second time, the evidence presumes that he could be a target of industrial espionage because of his invention. He decides to turn his home into a fortress. As Adam continues to die through seemingly innocuous accidents around the house and even on their annual family holiday, it leaves him with more bodies to hide and move around as not to alarm his family.After no more than nine deaths Adam is finally coming to realize who his assassin is.

The Book of Job is the oldest book in the Bible and is often cited as the first and final word on suffering. Yet there is so much more depth to be gleaned from this discourse that reverberates throughout the generations. Ranging from practical coping mechanisms to adversity, to the nature and manner of praise. From addressing the biggest questions we could ever ask of life, to the end time prophecies hidden in its time line, culminating in the coming of a Saviour.The Book of Job is like no other piece of writing as it travels from the height of heaven to plumb the depths of hell, revealing not only the futility of raging against God, but revealing the staggering breadth of His wisdom and depth of His love, foreshadowing how He will ultimately bring salvation to the world through one man.

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?

Roland's routine life is numb and lifeless. What is worse is that he can't stop thinking about his ex-girlfriend, Hope. He blames his own neglect and bitterness on her obsession with film writing. In fact it's eating him up inside.With the help of a homeless man Roland takes in he discovers that the printer he stole from her has a memory with all of her screenplays still stored inside. Roland comes to the realisation that he might be just a character in one of her stories.Determined to save Hope from her obsession Roland embarks on a journey to save Hope from the addictive craft that is screenwriting. His journey however, coincides with Hope getting her first gig to write for a large network. All she has to do is prove she can write a death scene. She picks one of her old unfinished screenplays featuring Roland. But Roland isn't ready to be killed off just yet.What follows is a dual between created and creator while Roland makes his way to Los Angeles. Hope is invited to finish her death scene at the network to demonstrate her skills in action, but things get worse when she writes herself into her own story to appeal to Roland to lay down quietly for the sake of her aspiring career.

Poot's shady movie pirating business is stolen by mister Asia, but when he stealthily tries to steal it back he is caught and stripped of even his identity. Now he has to outrun Asia's sinister assassins whilst trying to wreak his digital vengeance and retrieve the remaining essence of who he really is.Poot's got a shady movie piracy business and things are ticking away sorta nicely until one of his contacts doesn't come through and the Asian triad sends him a warning which lands him in hospital.However returning home, Poot finds his garage cleaned out and his entire online business presence wiped clean. With a quick and crude little detective work, with the help of his precocious little half sister Mot and a quadcopter, Poot finds the who and the where.But no sooner does he confront his old nemesis Mister Asia; providing him the why, immediately stripping away the last dignified shrapnel of his identity, putting him on the run from his now hypnotised sister, soon to be girlfriend and a film crew, is he thrown from a plane, landing back in hospital and arrested.All part of the plan? Sorta.Can Poot turn this all around? Can he get back his business, does he even want to and most pressingly, can he retrieve the most important thing he has lost?The essence of who he really is?

Nimble Timms, an exceptionally busy landlord with narcolepsy, a stutter, and the temperament of a koala, has just bought his archaeologist wife the ultimate gift for their twentieth wedding anniversary. All he needs to do is screw in one light bulb and he's done for the day. How hard can that be in a building with an overactive grapevine, a baby elephant stuck in the foyer and a knife-wielding serial killer?

In the gospel of Luke chapter four it describes Jesus returning to Galilee to his home town of Nazareth. On the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. There he stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." It was no accident that Jesus stopped reading where he did, because had he continued his audience would have heard the very next sentence; "and the day of vengeance of our God." (Isaiah 61:1-2) The day of vengeance would have had no bearing on what Jesus was about to do in his three and half year ministry, and yet it remains in scripture as a crucible still to be fulfilled.I present to you this incredible journey of a remarkable man who himself expounds the day of God's vengeance in the last book of the Holy Bible - the Book of Revelation.

I am a father with two young children, a pigeon pair, whom I absolutely adore. Each and every day I count the hours until I can rush home after work to see, talk and play with these two most excellent and extraordinary human beings. But once they're tucked in and sleeping, and after I've collected those rogue eyelashes off their cheeks, blessed their blood and instructed their microbes to patrol them well, I often wondered if I had given them all I needed for that day, in order to adequately equip them for life tomorrow.I worried that I hadn't, which used to plunge me into a type of despair, not because I had neglected to contribute to the proliferation of their play things and experiences, that is easy, but had I shared enough of that which has constantly been burning unabated inside my chest since I was myself a child, in which resides the greatest treasure I own: my relationship with God, Maker of heaven and earth.It has been years now where I spend late nights and early mornings with my illuminated droid, writing to my children in an attempt to capture these butterflies on a battlefield in a feeble net, which they may read when they're a little older, so they too might come to know more about this most magnificent and significant investment I have in God's very own boy, Jesus Christ, in the hope that they themselves will pursue Him, whilst they move through life like the cut diamonds they are.

As a persecuted soldier of the Roman Empire, George has to kill a Dragon plaguing a local village, to escape his own execution.GEORGE of Nicomedia is a Roman Tribune. Secretly he is also a convert of the newest religion at the time - Christianity - a movement that threatens the very existence of the Roman Empire. Subsequently one of the four ruling Emperors, GERALIUS, draws up an edict to exterminate Christians, even if they were Roman soldiers.In an attempt to mock George's new found religion Geralius issues an ultimatum that if George can get an entire village to agree to the 'water ritual' within the week, he would exempt him from persecution.An impossible task George decides to flee, only to stumble into the middle a pagan ritual where a young woman, SABRA, is about to be sacrificed, in order to appease a Dragon that lives in the waters of Lake of Silene, believed to have been sent by the goddess Juturna. Forced to face his own dormant fears can George, not only rescue the young woman and kill the beast, but also save the souls of an entire village?