Ephesians 5:21-33 Very discouraged, Hettie wrote me an e-mail: I love my husband very much and I believe he loves me just as much, but he is addicted to pornography and recently I saw on his phone that he had again looked at a website of naked women and women wearing next to nothing. Some […]
Read moreEphesians 5:21-33 Angus Buchan focuses on men. He holds big events for thousands of men and the message is the same: Men must take up the leadership in the home again. I don’t know where it went wrong, but it seems to me as if men no longer lead when it comes to the spiritual […]
Read moreEphesians 5:21-33 Paul gives the Ephesians good advice. First, he identified and addressed all those wrong roads which they took so often. Now he focuses on marriage, the most important cornerstone of society. One that is taking a massive beating in our time. Paul knows how important it is to a healthy society and gives […]
Read moreEphesians 5:6-18 When we moved from the farm into town, I was not used to having people living so close to me. I didn’t realise how far sound could travel. I loved pushing my big hifi’s volume button far into the red. Later on my wife walked down the street to hear how far the […]
Read moreEphesians 5:6-18 When I was a student I was a bus driver for Intercape. I really enjoyed it and the R50 a day that I earned then was quite a good salary for the time. Something the owner, Johan Ferreira, was very serious about, was safety. The buses were big and fast and a small […]
Read moreEphesians 5:6-18 S*x, drugs and rock & roll Kris Kristofferson’s song “Sunday morning coming down” summarises it well: Well, I woke up Sunday morning With no way to hold my head that didn’t hurt. And the beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad So I had one more for dessert. Then I fumbled in my […]
Read moreEphesians 5:6-18 Some sins aren’t sins until you use too much of it or do too much of it. I suspect if you put the words “too much” in the same sentence it changes into sin. Say, for example, with wine. I still remember the time when I worked as a farm manager on a […]
Read moreEphesians 5:6-18 What is your purpose on earth? Why do you think God chose you to be here on earth now? Just sit still for a while and see if you can get an answer to this question and write it down. Many people don’t know why they’re on earth. I think most people want […]
Read moreEphesians 5:6-18 At one stage I watched movies so often it seemed I was afraid they would go out of fashion. Any movie. Didn’t matter how old or how bad, every evening found me in front of the TV. And my problem was I couldn’t stop halfway. And by the time the movie actually ended […]
Read moreEphesians 5:6-18 A friend of mine is always unhappy. One mishap after the other befalls him. At one time he nearly lost everything. Although he is now doing well financially, he is very lonely. His friends hang around, but when they leave there is a deep loneliness inside him. He comes to see me, close […]
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