There’s a saying amongst many of my contemporaries: “The hustle is real”. It refers to the general struggle of trying to make a living. Unless you’re born with a proverbial silver-spoon, you’ll eventually have to earn a living to pay for bills, fees, hobbies, holidays, etc. Like me, you’re probably aspiring to a certain quality …
As Christians, we claim to trust God but often, we have a plan B and even a plan C, if God doesn’t come through on plan A. However, there are those situations where if God doesn’t come through on plan A, then there are no good alternatives. I think of two such situations in the …
“Social distancing”, “self-isolation”; these are words many of us had never heard until a few weeks ago and now they are mentioned hundreds of times each day on our news channels. A coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented event for many of us. Many countries like the UK are past being able to contain the virus. …
“…you will know the truth and the truth will set you free”. Those are the famous words of Jesus as recorded in John 8:32. So, what do you know and has it set you free? Or put differently, are you enslaved to anything – drugs, alcohol, pornography, sex, power and so on? Is your identity …
In the 1994 movie classic Forrest Gump, the main character played by Tom Hanks repeatedly says “life was like a box of chocolates” but I think life is more like a bag of Lego pieces. My son and I like to build Lego toys together and on reflection, what we do provides a great analogy …
I was listening to a preacher teach on the book of Jonah. In his talk, he listed 3 worldviews which ponder the existence of God. There is the worldview that claims there is no God, that is, He did not create the world and He doesn’t control it. This is largely the atheist view. There …
What we do when the going gets tough is very instructive. It is good practice to observe and review your actions in moments of trial. We may have a default place of refuge in those times or people we run to for comfort in those lean periods of our lives. This is also true of …
The Chambers dictionary defines ‘option’ as the freedom to make choices and the ability to make choices is one of our rights as human beings. My 2-year-old daughter reminds me of this fact almost on a daily basis. On her day, she is quite adamant about what she wants to wear. I once walked into …
