Do you sometimes wonder why you are here on earth? Are you waiting for answers to the question: What am I actually doing here? Even before my early morning devotions, an e-mail from Arrie (not his real name) flew in: I have questions that remain unanswered. I search and search and even googled the other […]
Read more1So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Now that is saying a lot. I had an amazing dad who made an enormous difference in God’s world. He left deep foot prints, so deep that it makes me feel that I […]
Read moreSometimes it’s difficult for me to distinguish between who is actually right about God and his stuff, and who is mistaken. When two people start talking about what they believe in from different perspectives, and about what one should actually do, it sounds to me as if both are right and I want to say: […]
Read moreWe’re visiting friends in Bloemfontein. It’s over the top; they just didn’t stop spoiling us. Three meals a day. But it didn’t stop there. Every little spot still left was stuffed with dessert and cake. First, lemon meringue, then cheese cake, and the cherry on the top: a double-layer chocolate cake. But Friday evening something […]
Read moreWe’re visiting friends in Bloemfontein. It’s over the top; they just didn’t stop spoiling us. Three meals a day. But it didn’t stop there. Every little spot still left was stuffed with dessert and cake. First, lemon meringue, then cheese cake, and the cherry on the top: a double-layer chocolate cake. But Friday evening something […]
Read moreWhen do people lose it? Sometimes when your circumstances become too much to deal with. Then it may happen that you grab onto anything that can help you keep your head above water – or sometimes you just give up. I know there were times in my life when I just ran around wildly, like […]
Read more18Don’t tolerate people who try to run your life, ordering you to bow and scrape, insisting that you join their obsession with angels and that you seek out visions. They’re a lot of hot air, that’s all they are. Immediately I set myself apart from these people, because I’m not like that. O no, my […]
Read moreNowadays you find people who want to convince you of one or another faith principle all over the place. Just look around you on Sundays. People meet wherever they can in town to keep church. I’m not saying it’s wrong, but we must take care not to become so caught up talking about the things […]
Read moreWhen it’s time for the Olympic Games, everybody watches sport. Doesn’t matter how strange or unfamiliar the kind of sport is, everybody sits glued to their TV screens. I like watching sevens rugby. I was so glad our team won the bronze in 2016 at the Rio Olympics. The winner of the gold medal was […]
Read moreWe must hear about the forgiveness of sin and what Jesus did for us on the cross again and again and in different ways so that we can really experience it. Every moment of the day we must know what Jesus did and then live victoriously. 15He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe […]
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