Do you remember playing “hide and seek” as a toddlers? It was a fun game. I could, however, never understand why my older sister always knew exactly where to find me! Being a year and a half younger than her, she knew where the best places were to hide. I took the first available place […]
When pastoring a Church in Welkom in the then Orange Free State, I managed to join a fishing club, not to do fishing but to have access to one of their fishing dams. I would pack my lunch, water, books and Bible and go there, unlocking the gate and finding a spot where I could […]
If you were in the Garden of Eden, and if you were tempted like Eve was, would you have responded any differently? When taking up the rectorship in my second Church since ordination, I was still pretty naïve! My head was still too heavenly minded to be much earthly good. There I was, leading a […]
Although I enjoyed listening to a particular Christian Hip Hop Artist, I was never really a fan of that genre. For me, listening live was far better than listening to his CDs, all of which I bought. Hip Pop to me is prose. It is writing verse and orating it in a way that captures […]
The news report says he is an airline pilot and has been placed on special leave whilst there is an internal and police investigation. The news media reveals a picture of this man, with a rather long handled axe, chopping away at a boom gate that provides access out of the staff’s parking lot. He […]
The prosecutor or defense attorney will fire questions at the defendant or witness, starting off with mild questions, then increasing the severity of the question until they reach the more complicated questions that will either prove one guilty or guiltless. You might be totally innocent, yet by crafty, calculated questioning, they follow a pattern until […]
In warfare you always target your enemy’s weakest and most vulnerable point. Take what Russia did bombing a key bridge in the Ukraine followed later by the Ukraine bombing the bridge linking Russia and Crimea. Whether it is “tit for tat” or not, the weakest and most vulnerable point becomes the target. The devil is […]
Many things puzzle us as we venture through life. I remember getting my first desktop computer. It was a Nashua Elite III with a floppy drive. It is impossible to migrate from a manual typewriter to a computer thinking you will get it right because you can type. The General Secretary of the denomination secured […]
By now we ought to realize that the devil is no imaginary image conjured up and used to frightening people or children into not doing something. The devil is not some little green creature with squint eyes, a long nose, pointy ears, long chin, wielding a three pronged green fork. The devil is a real […]
There are many comic books that depict the devil as the bad guy. This is also true with fictional stories such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc. Their authors write with the express motive that there is good and evil or right and wrong. The good guys, even though they have to go through many […]