There are endless suggestions about the functionality of the brain and why people have dreams. I want to short circuit everything the scientists and people interested in these fields say by saying that what we put into the mind comes out in some format or the other. You have heard the saying … “garbage in, […]
Most names have a meaning. I love it when people explain the meaning of their names to me. Have you noticed though that the meanings seldom go with the person’s character and personality? Let me use an example. My name, Donald, in Scottish means “world leader or chief”. I am neither, will never be either […]
We live in a world of gross inequality, discrimination and prejudice. Stop in your tracks! No, I am not going to talk about these three important matters in the context of so called color (nationality, language and ethnicity). There are enough people doing that and they will never stop. They will ceaselessly search for new […]
How many parents have said to their children something like … “What will it take to get your attention?” Loving, caring parents often find their children delinquent. They warn them, instruct them, love them, discipline them … yet they just don’t seem to have ears. At times we could blame this on adolescence when children […]
The word “intentional” linked to “Christianity” was popularized around 20 or so years ago. Because there are so many people attending Church who are not Christian and because so many call themselves Christian yet live with one foot on the world (or perhaps both) and because often Church Membership is open to anyone, irrespective of […]
I would suggest that words like “amazement” (a feeling of great surprise or wonder) and “bewildered” (perplexed and confused; very puzzled) are inadequate words to describe Nebuchadnezzar’s response to seeing four people walking around in the fiery furnace. Da 3:24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, “Weren’t there […]
The human being is surely the worst when it comes to ingenuity with reference to killing people. What I am about to say will include countries from 1900, like China, Soviet Union, Armenia, Japan, Pakistan, Cambodia, Rwanda, not to forget to a lesser degree, Uganda under Idi Amin, Rhodesia (both sides) and South Africa under […]
In The Pour Over for today, they ran an article about Jack Dorsey (founder and CEO of Twitter and Square) who will be stepping down. They also announced who would be taking over. What I found phenomenal is the amount of profit that was made … a small … $3.6 billion next to $86 billion […]
After a short break of a few days we return to “Dare to be a Daniel.” At present things are working well for Daniel and his three friends. The king is happy and they are seemingly doing well … yet the enemy lurks all the time. Although the understanding and feeling differs greatly about the […]
As I was scrolling through the News24 App today, I found a few articles that have relevance to the theme we have been working through over the past few days. It is that of asking how we as Christians ought to respond to the Governments “sixteen days of activism against women and child abuse”. I […]