I was driving to Namibia with my brother from another mother. He enjoys taking me with him because as a retired InterKaap bus driver (in my student years) I’m not afraid of driving. When we were on the road, he often slept upright. But when he was awake, we talked a lot. We didn’t even […]
Read moreSome people just can’t give. Some people are so busy with their own lives that giving and helping others doesn’t form part of their lives. Yes, some people live only for themselves and will drain blood from others. Fortunately, we’re not like that. We understand what we have received. We realize the gift we received […]
Read moreJob was a man close to God’s heart. God was proud of His child, Job. Job had four outstanding qualities. He was a good and sincere man and had respect for God. And he avoided evil. The Bible says: “He refused to do evil.” Regarding evil or sin, he consciously fought against it. He refused […]
Read moreNow and then something trips me up. No, not physically, but so to speak, literally and figuratively, no pun intended. But if a horse can stumble with four legs, I most certainly can too with one mouth … You see, we very easily talk about other people who said this or that or did this […]
Read moreAs you are reading this piece, 20 women in America are being physically abused by their marriage partners. Not to mention the women who are being verbally abused. One in four women and one in seven men have been victims of serious physical violence by an intimate partner. If you have four married male friends […]
Read moreA youngish man stood at the traffic lights greeting everyone with a salute and a big smile. You could see he’d been exposed to the elements for some time. I couldn’t make out what was written on his sign board, since it had also come a long way. But I could make out the last […]
Read moreWe’re sitting in the bakkie close to a tower to upload Sunday’s sermon to the cloud. The signal is poor. We’ve been driving around from one tower to the other all day and it’s been frustrating. You get frustrated with yourself, with the internet. Frustrated with anything that may cross your path unexpectedly. A man […]
Read morePeter (not his real name) was walking in the streets of New York, asking customers at street cafes for a piece of pizza. He hadn’t eaten in a long time and was very hungry. He tried with several people, but everybody chased him away. Then he went to a beggar sitting tiredly next to a […]
Read moreMy good friend, known as the Stationmaster, and his wife, turned 60 and invited a group of friends to celebrate their birthdays at the Muisbosskerm, on the West Coast. Well, if you want to lick your fingers and eat until your tummy feels like bursting, you have to go there, and like the Spur advert […]
Read morePaul is expecting Philemon to do something that is not normally done in their culture. In those times an owner wouldn’t usually take back a slave that had run away. Chances are that a slave that had run away once would do it again. Chances are that a slave that had stolen would take stuff […]
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