The series on the Rise and Fall of Asa will continue, but this was a tune that helped me considerably recently in highlighting the importance of hearing from God to be effective in life. A great song to remind you that there truly is no other way that we can live. For His Name’s Sake […]
Read More A Good Song to Remind You …The world we grow up in is the result of decisions made by people before us. Those decisions influence behaviours that set up patterns of existence. In time these become so embedded in society that they become norms. One generation exercises it, the next generation continues it and the following generation takes it for granted. […]
Read More The Rise and Fall of Asa: 2 – A Rise Based on Faith and ObedienceListening to scripture being read has become one of my favourite things to do in life. There’s a dramatised version of the New International Version that I love listening to especially when it comes to texts with the necessary narrative. So whilst listening, I came across 2 Chronicles. I gotta say, 1 and 2 Kings […]
Read More The Rise & Fall of Asa: 1 – ContextWouldn’t it be tragic if you trained for so long and put in the hours of performance in a competition that turned out to be the wrong one. You might not think that would happen. Surely someone would notice and correct things. No one would persist competing in the wrong race. Surely not. Reality is […]
Read More On The Run: EpilogueWhat’s with this On The Run series of posts, Christopher? Are you dodging someone? Have the authorities caught up with you? There was a bit of what the Apostle Paul said to his son in the faith, Timothy, that made me stop and pay close attention to it and myself. There is something about this […]
Read More On The Run: Running For Your LifeIt’s great to start on a high. The excitement, the buzz, the positive vibes and there’s the essence of feeling you can make it all on your own. The same excitement that started you can probably be the excitement to keep you going. Until stuff happens. It’s tragic to see people running on low. That […]
Read More On The Run: Running on LowSometimes we get ourselves in a situation we can’t get out of. So mired in circumstances and mental conditions that coping mechanisms are all we have. In the middle of all that I am grateful that the good news is about God seeing that condition did something about it. Doing something we could never do […]
Read More On The Run: The Home Run“I remember … When they were young, they would fall, hurt themselves and come running to me. They ran to me because I could take the pain away. They ran to me because I could make it better. They ran to me because everything they needed was found in me. They got older and thought […]
Read More On The Run: The Problem in a MemoryThe route was a familiar one, carved and conditioned over time. Something would happen to upset me and I The running continues)would set off to run in that direction, on that route to that destination. It became automatic. I would make the run to that place and before long I would nestle again into that […]
Read More On The Run: The Old RunI used to run when I was younger. I ran with my siblings and our friends playing in the estate that we grew up in. When I was a little older, I ran because I was good at it in the shorter distances. It made me useful for the rugby and I had one or […]
Read More On The Run: Prologue
