Views: 91There are times that you know you’ve done all your human strength can do; but still don’t see the way forward. Instead of giving up in resignation, give the control to God, through prayer. Such prayers don’t need to be elaborate. They can be as simple as,  “God, the rest is in your hands.” […]

Views: 96The banking and microfinance crisis in Ghana made me more convinced than ever, that I have to always trust and commit my ways to God. People were living their lives normally; the star CEOs and Directors that we all admired, their workers who seemed never to lack, the fleets of branded cars, and the fluid […]

Views: 102I spent Sunday night in the hospital. I had my day all planned: I would go to church, come back home and do a write-up that one of my senior ministers had requested; and study for my impending exams!   Just when I had packed my stuff,  and was about to enter the house, my […]

Views: 64“I am going to Dorm!”  Shaibu said after I picked the call; and my heart skipped! Lately, my heart skips every time I hear these words from Shaibu. “Dorm” refers to Odumase-Krobo, where we both grew up. Traditionally, the Krobos, in Ghana, farm on the Akwapim-Togo ranges and the fertile lands around the Volta […]

Views: 54John Newton was born into a Christian home, but his godly mother died when he was only seven years old. He joined his father at sea when he was just eleven. His licentious and tumul­tuous sailing life included a flogging for attempted desertion from the Royal Navy, and captivity by a slave trader in […]

Views: 57I saw a picture online recently in which a woman was kneeling in front of “her prophet” in a very somber mood, with an inscription similar to: “Does she do this before her husband?” But I put it in another way. “Does she do this before God?” We are in the age of prophets, […]