A saying suggests there are only two things guaranteed in life – death and taxes. Reflecting on the experiences I’ve had and witnessed as a Christian, I’d suggest certain other things are as close to inevitable as you can get without dying of taxation. It’s Inevitable: You will be misunderstood when sharing your faith with […]
Read More It’s InevitableSometimes I take prayer for granted. On Friday I have a job interview. I found out recently and, unusually for me, I asked quite a number of people to pray for me. It’s unusual because I’ve tended to keep such matters close to my chest only informing a few others. This time, however, it felt […]
Read More Something Occurred To Me About PrayerI was considering what the title of this post meant today. Here are some questions that cropped up. When all is said and done, how important is it for me to please the Lord? In the community context, are our lives truly faith-based with the primary desire to please the Lord? If faith is so […]
Read More Without Faith It’s Impossible To Please The LordIt has not always been easy to live by faith. In fact thinking about it, I cannot recall a time where it has consistently been easy living by faith. What I can say is that despite my capacity to forget things, and sometimes take God for granted, He provides opportunities to be reminded about what […]
Read More September Sojourn: Walking To What You See By FaithWhile I go journeying through the gospel of John, my family have been embarking on a trek through 1 Samuel. This is an important book of the Bible for me. About 20 years ago, as a member of a church youth group, this was a book we were studying and memorising for a national quiz […]
Read More September Sojourn: Speak Lord, I’m ListeningFor those expecting a biblical exploration of the woman who was married to an idiot and helped stop David from killing her idiot husband, before going on to marry David herself when the idiot husband keeled over anyway … this is not it. (Great story though. As in, I love reading the episode. It’s good […]
Read More What Abigail Teaches Me About Following JesusConsider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God,who gives generously to all without finding fault, and […]
Read More Life Is A Test Of Your FaithIt is not bad talking of legacy. I used to hang around with a guy who was keen to ensure he left a positive legacy for the generations that followed him. He is a father of three and his work allowed him to take on others as followers who he mentored. So he talked of […]
Read More Fussing Over Legacy? Focus on Being Fruitful and FaithfulI just could not do it any more. One of my (many) problems is that I am not really the confrontational type. I can be brusque and up front and blunt when I want to be, and I’ve been informed that I can appear somewhat intimidating at times, though I put that down to the […]
Read More Compassion or ComplacencyI was sitting down in a section of the day’s church gathering that they called the Divine Worship. As is my wont, I made notes of what the preacher was saying. As I listened and noted and also considered the rest of the session and indeed the service, there was something gnawing at me. The […]
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