I grew up in an old farm house. I honestly cannot remember whether we had a fridge. In my mind, the first fridge we owned was the one mom purchased once we moved into the house dad built. When one is small, you don’t worry about such things as furniture or stoves and fridges. It’s […]
The president, together with his Covid Command Council, has ordered that the Covid-19 restrictions be relaxed to level 2 from Tuesday coming. This ought to open up the economy significantly where most businesses will be able to function as before … though, the strict protocol of social distancing, sanitizing, masks, and no hugging, kissing or […]
I am certain you have heard the saying, “He or she is acting out of character.” Get the picture of a parent being called to school and the principal saying, “Your son has done a terrible thing. He fought with a smaller boy and once he was reported he swore at the prefect.” The mother […]
Due to me having an appointment today, I decided to do the lawns yesterday. But first, I needed to repair the section where the contractors from Frogfoot (the company who did the fibre installation) dug up the lawn to lay the fibre (we still do not have fibre–eight days later). They did a poor job […]
Yesterday Jenny and I went to her hairdresser for our monthly bonny chop (haircut). In talking to him, I mentioned that a friend of mine needs a haircut but his barber closed down during lock down. I said, “I’ll recommend that he come to you.” He laughed and said, “I’m not a barber. I’m a […]
It’s rather phenomenal wanting to be God when there is only one God who is eternally God and who cannot be dethroned. After all, there is one, true, living God who created everything out of nothing and continues to sustain all things that exist! Yet there are those from time to time who pop up […]
Every August is “Woman’s Month”, with the 9th being the Public Holiday “National Woman’s Day” originating out of the Women’s march in 1956 to the Union Buildings. The extract below comes from an article in The Daily Friend entitled “Stop Patronizing Women”, written by Ivo Vegter (freelance journalist, columnist and speaker). He writes: Each Women’s […]
If you have ever written a sermon, Bible study, devotion or talk for adults, youth or children, you will know that every sermon, study, devotion, and talk you prepare is prepared for yourself before it is presented to others. This is rather daunting, because when you are seeking holiness before the Lord, your message to […]
I have been talking to two brothers over the past six months about someone we know who tends to tell lies at will. Let’s understand this carefully … everyone, sadly, tends to tell lies at times. It is a sin and it is breaking the Seventh Commandment: Ex 20:16 “You shall not give false testimony […]
Today was one of those days … I preached and recorded my service/sermon for tomorrow. I was all done by 2.20pm. Then, we prepared lunch and decided to sit in the lounge and watch some TV whilst we ate. After the meal, I decided to edit the service/sermon, splicing in all the slides for readings […]