Sometimes, we face our inner selves. We might struggle with our self-image and wonder, “Am I making it? Am I good enough?” I wonder why God made us this way. Why does our conscience accuse us so much, making us feel so bad about ourselves? Maybe our conscience was damaged by the Fall and now […]
Read moreOne must realise that it’s easy to misunderstand the Bible if you only read one verse at a time. It’s so easy to go off track if the context, not only of the chapter but also the entire Bible, is not well understood. I really like the Message translation because it puts God’s Word in […]
Read moreThere are almost three million orphans in South Africa. Four hundred thousand of them are in foster care. The rest are somewhere else. According to research in America, 25% of children in foster care will not graduate from high school. Fifty percent will develop a drug addiction. Seventy percent of women will become pregnant before […]
Read moreA friend told me this story about Pieter, Hennie and Susan. Pieter had a hard childhood. He lost his father when he was young. He did not have a good relationship with his much older mother and had no contact with his only sister. Without these family relationships, he ended up making friends with the […]
Read moreMy friend’s father’s farmed in the Northern Cape – where the nothing grows about a meter high. How they managed to tend sheep there, only they will know. He’s the one who always said: One should never run out of plans. I suspect that was His secret. He always had a bunch of plans to […]
Read moreMany of us live a compartmentalized life. As if we put on a different jacket for every new set of circumstances. I act in a certain way at work, which is different from the way I am at home or with my friends. With my mates I will tell a joke of a certain standard, […]
Read morePaul used a wonderful example to explain how Jesus completely changed our lives and status. 1 Let me show you the implications of this. As long as the heir is a minor, he has no advantage over the slave. 2Though legally he owns the entire inheritance, he is subject to tutors and administrators until whatever date […]
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