At the beginning of the last century, the Spanish flu decimated the global population. More than 50 million people are estimated to have died. Other epidemics, of varying scope, have occurred in different parts of the world in recent times – Sars, Mers, Ebola, etc. Today the world is witnessing a massive spread of a […]
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Don’t you sometimes feel like Abraham ? No I don’t mean the father of the faith Abraham, nor the Abraham who believed and had it credited to him as righteousness, not just then. Rather, the Abraham who was called by God, walked with God, was blessed greatly by God, so far so good, and yet
Life is about expectations. Every course of action, every decision awakens or is birthed by specific expectations. The Christian life is no different. Your expectations determine your outcome, so we must be careful to have the right expectations and when we do, the right attitude to make them reality. Let me explain. Many years ago
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I love the non conformism of Jesus. He surprised, He angered, He stunned people with His behaviour. He overturned tables everyone else felt comfortable with. He did not wash where the done thing was to do it, ostentatiously. He held forth about praying secretly rather than where everyone could see and marvel at your holiness. Then He came up with stuff about giving secretly, giving secretly, now what is that? How are people to know how amazing you are if you do not do your amazing stuff for all to see?
Strangely He did not seem to think that what people saw mattered as much as what God saw, and went on to add that your heavenly Father who sees what you do in secret will reward you openly. That’s good, but then He said if you do your good stuff to be seen by men, then their admiration is all the reward you’re getting, God considers you’ve had enough. That’s slightly less palatable. And some of us still choose the admiration of our peers over God’s approval.
So Jesus kicked against things people thought normal,
Consider Jesus. Truly one of the most remarkable things to me about Jesus is that He stuck to His guns and went through with it. Have you ever imagined what would have happened had Jesus packed it all in? What would have become of us? The letter to the Philippians aptly describes His willingness to
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Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but one who hates correction is stupid. Prov. 12.1 By this definition, the world is awash with ‘stupid’ people, as many hate discipline and reject correction. I believe one of the most important things to learn in leading is to not insist on guiding a person who does not want to
