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TRADITION: – Its merits and limitations – Part 1

TRADITION – Its merits and limitations As part of her yearly tradition, the Christian faith world -wide observes ‘Lent’ period, which commenced on Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday. It’s a forty-day period of deep reflection on…

WHAT MARRIAGE IS – Part 1

Part 1   Marriage is a choice   Our world and its surrounding events suggest that the most taskful problem facing mankind is that of choice. Mankind is faced with a variety of options that compete for our priority. Since God created…

RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY

Christian faith and religious tolerance “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction” by Blaise Pascal               In recent days the issue of…

AT THE EDGE OF PROMOTION

AT THE EDGE OF PROMOTION Each time I ponder on the passion and reactions of some of the old prophets of Israel, one prophet intrigues me so much in a couple of ways. This oracle of God is called Elisha. Elisha was a servant of Prophet…

THE GIFT OF CHOICE

THE GIFT OF CHOICE “If I were to begin life again, I should want it just as it was; only I would open my eyes a little more” Jules Renard. In life, there are things that are beyond our control; we cannot determine when they occur or…

WEAR A MASK, EVEN IF YOU HATE IT

by Brett MccrackenI don’t like wearing face masks. They fog up my sunglasses and make my beard itch. It’s hard to talk intelligibly through them and nearly impossible to pick up nonverbal facial expressions that add vital texture…

DESIRING GOD IN THESE TRIAL TIMES

Life is not always smooth sailing. The most courageous people are not those who always avoid hard times, but those who meet those challenges head-on and make it through, stronger and wiser than before. Often, we feel as though life’s…

BEGINNING WITH GOD

BEGINNING WITH GOD It’s not unusual to find some people start a journey or begin a life’s event or say new dawn without committing their days to God. They fail to realize that God is our creator and made us in such a way that we depend,…

FASTING AND PRAYERS

FASTING AND PRAYERS As we approach the eventful period of the Lent, I feel constrained to reiterate the importance of fasting and prayers. I had touched on it earlier in my contribution titled “understanding Christian Lent.” Most…

YOUR OLIVE LEAF [EVIDENCE] IS COMING

YOUR OLIVE LEAF IS COMING In our world, “Seeing is believing;” people believe what they see, but faith believes in what is unseen. Sometimes we are stocked at a place for long and we begin to see doubts; wonder what else to do. At times,…

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