Visits: 63“Lord, please help me fill my cup with gratitude to You first for life, and to wonderful people who make my days wonderful…also Lord, please help me fill my cup with boundless joy, inexplicable peace, inexhaustible bowels of forgiveness, overflowing streams of mercy and amazing fruits of righteousness. Thank you Lord.” I wrote this […]

Visits: 21I have heard the story of a man who was arrested by the police for wife battering. When he arrived at the police station, a senior officer seeing how honorable and refined he looked asked him what prompted him to engage in wife battering. So he told this story: “I live in another country […]

Visits: 20It has been a sweet and sour experience for me since I started sharing daily devotionals on Whatsapp a few years back. The reactions varied greatly. They include responses like: “Awwww, thanks. I needed this!” or, “Amen! I needed this.” or “That was so timely. God bless you!” or “So true.God bless you!”  or […]

Visits: 31 It is commonplace to see young people, especially teens, trying to outdo one another to impress the opposite sex. The efforts they put in can range from the ordinary, like becoming particularly fussy about their looks; to the bizarre, like saying and claiming things that are untrue!  I was once with a young man […]

Visits: 29We often hear people say, “My grandmother, uncle, or auntie is not educated; he is a farmer, carpenter or trader.” Yet when we need information, like the family history or how they built their house, we go to them! The word education has been so misused and so misapplied that it has become misleading. […]

Visits: 34I have seen many people simply refuse to come to church because they got pregnant, or impregnated someone; outside wedlock. Most of them never return! When you talk to them, they would usually tell you they cannot bear the judgmental looks, and the associated gossip and shame, they receive from colleague church members; even […]