One of the joys of language is in how you often find encapsulated in a few words fundamental life giving principles. Such is this one. ‘Forget not His benefits’. Referring to God, the psalmist enjoins a lifestyle of constant remembrance, He posits that God has done amazing good to man, proceeds to enumerate some of […]
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Friendship is a beautiful gift, and it takes different forms. We must always be grateful for the people God places in our lives. Jean Tanefofou is one of those gifts of God to me. He is also more than that, he is an evangelist who preaches the world over, sees astounding miracles of healing and
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Of necessity I must indulge in a moment of frank, unadulterated celebration and thanksgiving. From time to time, the realization of deep, prodigious joy overwhelms you, not the high of an acquisition, but the deep seated sense of well being totally unrelated to anything natural, tangible or visible. You don’t become happy, you just realize
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My Facebook friends have been informed that I have been rereading Charles Colson’s book ‘The Body’, a hefty treatise on the nature and purpose of the church. And if you read my article on the Todd Bentley scandal you will know I talked at length about the church. All that talk about church made me
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Ah the man Moses, I spoke of Moses this Sunday. Moses, by his own admission, granted written under divine inspiration, was the meekest man on the face of the earth. I totally love Moses, I see him as a model pastor, a model of patience and forbearance. Yet, on at least one occasion, his patience
Christian leaders and the Sisyphus complex – let’s make it real Read More »
Reading the gospels is a delightful exercise, well, until you begin to near the end; the end is where they crucified Jesus and there it is decidedly less pleasant as you watch Jesus go through the agony of His redemptive sacrifice, but, He comes out of the grave, and then it’s okay again. But before
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