Corrie Ten Boom said prayer is the engine room of every congregation. If a congregation doesn’t pray, it’s going one way – downhill. A believer is fueled by prayer. With no fuel, they come to a standstill. Prayer is the beginning and the end of every believer’s existence. I sometimes wonder out loud whether the […]
Read moreWe walked out of the church. The message was about love and doing and caring. The children commented that the preacher radiated this in his life. When he asked how things were going, he did so with compassion and was always ready to help, wherever he could. What a beautiful testimony. One day his epitaph […]
Read moreHumans are group animals. Most of us like doing things the way the rest of humanity does it. We don’t like being marginalised, because it’s not that nice on the edge of society. It’s cold there. Businesses understand this human tendency very well, that’s why they use it to fill their coffers. That’s why they […]
Read moreWe constantly help married couples who have decided they’ve had enough of being married. They got married initially because their differences drew them to each other. Now they say they differ too much. This is the push force that pushes people out of marriage. Other reasons push people out of wedlock, some justified, some not. […]
Read moreThis is your instruction: 6You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him. We must stop living like children of God only now and then. We must start being serious about how God intends his children to live. We must intentionally break with the way the world lives. Yes, we really want to live the […]
Read moreI was visiting friends. The wife had made wonderful oxtail, that kind that makes you napkin sticks to your fingers. This is where my brakes come off and my stomach doesn’t even see the “I’m full” sign. The conversation was as good as the oxtail and I couldn’t stop listening to the goodness. Piece by […]
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