Linguistically, Christianity is a noun, because it indicates the name of a specific group. I want to say it’s a verb, because being a Christian, a true Christian, presupposes work. Maybe we just need to stop here first. People will start jumping up and down as soon as you start talking about works. They will […]
Read moreLooking back over my life, I was very fortunate to have good jobs and good working conditions. Everywhere I worked, I worked like it was my own business. Even on the farms where I farmed, I worked as if it were my farm. There was never a clock-in or clock-out time for me. If we […]
Read moreSomeone once said the church is weak, dark, poor and imperfect, because there’s not enough prayer. This is so true. And so difficult to understand. If I know that when I’m hungry upon opening the fridge there’s food to satisfy my hunger, I will obviously open the fridge whenever I’m hungry. I get everything in […]
Read moreThere are a number of major characters in the Old Testament that we’re not familiar with. 32I could go on and on, but I’ve run out of time. There are so many more—Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets. . . . It seemed as if I’ve never heard the name Jephthah before and I had […]
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 […]
Read moreA Jewish proverb says that if you don’t teach your child a trade, you’re teaching him or her to steal. In any country with high unemployment there are many thieves. People have to eat and if they do not have jobs to earn money to buy food, they will make wrong plans to fill their […]
Read moreWhen I visited England as a young man, South Africans were highly in demand. If a South African applied for work, you had a good chance to get the job. Because South Africans were hardworking. They could do many things and they weren’t afraid to do the work the Pommies looked down on. The young […]
Read moreSocial networks are addictive. Due to the nature of our ministry I must constantly make sure that the posts on the various social network platforms have gone through. But then I noticed that I don’t only check whether our posts have landed. I quickly scroll through the news feeds to what fresh news there are. […]
Read moreWe spend the biggest part of the day at work. The place where you work, the people who work with you, the people you work for, have a significant impact on you. What do you look like when you get home after a bad day at work? Your mood is lower than your feet and […]
Read moreA few years have passed since I’ve left the business world behind. There were good times, but also challenging times when the cash flow wasn’t flowing that well. I learned a lot about business. About suppliers who would’ve liked to help, but also about debtors you had to beg to get your money for services […]
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