There is so much power in a greeting. Years ago, we had to greet everybody with a kiss. Sometimes it was really gross. Nataniël has this story about the aunt with the mole that you had to dodge, or the other one who had such flabby lips that it left you wondering whether she had […]
Read moreA Jewish proverb says that if you don’t teach your child a trade, you’re teaching him or her to steal. In any country with high unemployment there are many thieves. People have to eat and if they do not have jobs to earn money to buy food, they will make wrong plans to fill their […]
Read moreI don’t want to write about the following two verses. Who likes telling someone to clear off? I struggle to shake the dust off my shoes, turn around, and leave a person to his or her own devices. It’s so cruel and really not what God’s message of love means. But Paul is very serious […]
Read moreWhen I was very small, my dad had a square framework with a row of small steel balls on strings hanging from it on his desk. If you picked up the first ball on one end and let it fall, the ball on the other end would fly up nearly as high. I could play […]
Read moreLewies asks a very good question: Why is evangelism not something done by the whole congregation, but seems to be the hobby of only a few congregation members? If you look at congregations with this question in mind, you see it play out everywhere. There’s just a handful that seriously carries out God’s command to […]
Read moreIt was a wonder, the greatest wonder the world had ever seen! It is the day that Jesus died on the cross and made it possible for sinners like you and me to escape eternal damnation and instead find eternal rest in heaven. Lots of things had to happen behind the scenes for this wonder […]
Read moreA pig isn’t bothered by the mud in which it lives. It’s even less bothered about sniffing around for food in the mud. The pig enjoys it there. It chooses to live like that. People who have not yet accepted Jesus as their personal Saviour, chooses to live in sin. They enjoy it. They can’t […]
Read moreI’m with a friend of mine. As he talks to me, tears run down his face. He is describing the last minutes before his daughter’s operation. Her leg had to be amputated just below the knee. An aggressive cancer had been discovered in her fibula. Only two out of a million children get it, and […]
Read moreI pity the people who lived on earth before Jesus came. They did not actually have a chance of going to heaven. If they sinned, they had to take the punishment. I suspect I would have missed out on heaven too. But thank goodness God came with a supernatural, incomprehensible rescue effort. I will never […]
Read moreThere is so much power in a greeting. Years ago, we had to greet everybody with a kiss. Sometimes it was really gross. Nataniël has this story about the aunt with the mole that you had to dodge, or the other one who had such flabby lips that it left you wondering whether she had […]
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