(This article first appeared on Medium.) “What does the Bible say about gossiping?” This question plagued my mind for three odd months. It kept coming and going in waves and a friend I hold dear encouraged me to pen down my thoughts. I prayed...
Read moreHormones and New Life
C.S. Lewis captures the pervasive nature of the Christian faith in his famous assertion: “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” Indeed...
Read moreHope for Floundering Hearts
We’re in the second half of the year. Like a football game, the half-time is over and we’re back to play. Except, there was really no half-time. With the regular disruptions of life and the craziness of the COVID-19 pandemic, it feels like this...
Read moreDelighting in the Trinity
We’ve just celebrated Father’s Day, and several people went down memory lane to appreciate moments shared with their father. So many emotions and memories! The last thing I expected when I read Delighting in The Trinity was to have one of...
Read moreHelping Parents Thrive in Discipleship
When we look at our children, most of us if not all want kids that obey rules, respect us and others, love God and the Bible and make us happy all the time. We dream of kids who live out the lyrics of the Christian song I sang while in nursery...
Read moreThe Gift in Hard Times
A Tale of Grief Several centuries ago, there lived a wealthy man reputed to be the greatest in the ancient Near East. He was so rich he had multitudes of livestock, thousands of camels, and a vast number of servants, as well as a large family of...
Read moreNo Longer Two but One: The Gospel and Marriage
“In any argument, a wife has the last word. Anything the husband says after that last word is the beginning of a new argument.” “If a man opens the car door for his wife, you can be sure of one thing — either the car is new, or the wife is.”...
Read moreHow Not to Come to Christ
The days are fleeting when religious faith is presumed merely by familial or social ties, and not necessarily on the basis of personal conviction or evident fruit. Thanks to the pervasive nature of social media, it’s becoming increasingly...
Read moreDon’t Worry
This morning, I woke up early, scheduled to commence writing this post. Twenty minutes later, I caught myself worrying about my life. Then I remembered the title of the post is: Don’t Worry. You can imagine how I immediately felt. The truth...
Read moreDifferent But Equal
I’m not quite sure how to start this article; not because I’m bursting at the seams with ideas, but because the very mention of the word integral to this post often triggers an eye roll / dismissive won tun ti bere* sigh or...
Read moreParenting For Approval
I imagine there are veteran parents out there who do not only ‘talk the talk’ but have excelled at ‘walking the walk’ for much longer than I, and therefore may be better placed to speak authoritatively about parenting. As one in the trenches of...
Read moreTechnology: Good Servant, Bad Master
Every society relies on some form of technology. From customary farm tools, to the universal needle and thread, right down to the plethora of digital applications today, human society has had to invent and rely on some form of technology. And our...
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