At school we often broke the rules. Many times, we left after the first class, jumped on our motorcycles, and went to play board games at a friend’s house without a care in the world. While our pals stayed in class. I suspect jealousy made one of them grass us to the teacher. The next […]
Read more(Read Hebrews 7:1-25, preferably in The Message, to get a good idea of the Old Testament priests.) The priests in the Old Testament basically had two functions. The first was to be the middleman or mediator between God and the Israelites. The priest talked to God and then conveyed His message to the people. In […]
Read moreWhile we were growing up, there was no such thing as Grade R. Even playschools weren’t that common. We ate, played, ate, played and slept. So it was no surprise that many of us got quite weepy when we were pushed into a classroom. It felt like a cage to us. Everything was unfamiliar. The […]
Read moreMy son competed in a 10-kilometre swim in a dam near Worcester. For the first time I’m acting as feeder – that’s the person on the boat who leans far over the side and uses a long pole to hand the swimmer water, bananas or some kind of energy bar. As we came over the […]
Read moreJesus freed all who accepted Him as their Saviour from the consequences of sin. He unlocked the shackles of sin that bound us. But it seems as if we are struggling a bit with this freedom. It seems to me people prefer to have clear lanes to show where the road of life is going. […]
Read moreAt a men’s group the chairperson witnessed powerfully about the Lord’s blessing on his business. Earlier in the year he was so excited about a big quote that he had given for work on a farm. But although it was the cheapest quote, he did not get the job. However, that did not stop him […]
Read moreEverywhere I go it feels as if someone is taking something that doesn’t belong to him. Once when I was still working at the factory, I got the impression that the small screws were being used up really quickly. After looking into it, I discovered that every day after a supervisor had pulled screws from […]
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