On the yacht I learned a few things about the anchor. One is that you cannot use the anchor in some places. The chain holding the yacht’s anchor is about 50 metres long. Our instructor taught us that we cannot go everywhere with the yacht, because some places are too deep. If we get into […]
Read moreI’m in tears, because I can hardly believe how the Lord is working in my life. I’m astonished by how the Lord makes me experience things in my everyday life so that I can better understand his Word. I’m in Australia with four friends I’ve known since school. Some of us have known one another […]
Read moreWe five have been friends since school. There we were walking along a river in Brisbane. Beautiful. There are parks and swimming pools. We marvelled at the beauty around us and how neat everything was. Even the people are calmly sitting and enjoying the sunshine. Suddenly we heard a woman screaming. She was screaming on […]
Read moreA child of God should be 8… wise, fair, reverent. Christians are attracted by good things. But even more, they go after worthy things with everything in them. It works like a magnet. Things that are well-meaning attract them. The obvious presumption is that bad things push them away. Bad things disgust them and make […]
Read moreMy pal’s business was struggling, because the other suppliers were getting all the contracts. And if you don’t give the person signing off the order a cash backhander, chances are that order isn’t coming your way. My friend refuses to do business like that. That’s why his business is struggling. But he perseveres and believes […]
Read moreMy wife has been away for a whole week to finish her book in silence. We were so happy to see one another and when we realised that the children were busy with their interests, we decided to go and have a quiet dinner in town. After dinner we walked down Church Street to get […]
Read morePaul takes Titus by the hand and equips him with a number of tools to plant new churches. One of the most important elements is to get leaders who can lead the church together. So Paul describes what such leaders should look like. This is actually a description of all of us who are known […]
Read moreShannon is speaking: Saturday morning, I went to our local shop to pick up my meat order. In front of me in the parking area was an elderly couple who was taking a little bit longer to park. Against my old nature, I waited patiently for car doors to be closed and for them to […]
Read moreSometimes people can be very devious and think they can deceive other people. I know a guy who has a lot to say, but little of it is true. I no longer believe anything he says. Which is bad, because sometimes he does speak the truth, but because he has lied so many times, the […]
Read moreGeneration Z is the children born from the mid-1990’s to 2005. They are the first generation that grew up with technology. They are not an easy generation. They want everything on a silver platter. As soon as they encounter an obstacle at work, they resign. It’s as if they simply do not have enough drive […]
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