Views: 61Have you heard someone say, “I never knew he(or she) was that nice until I got close to him (or her)?” Often, what we think, and what the reality is, can be worlds apart. It is part of our fallen nature and human limitations. In crisis theory, we are told that the perception of […]

Views: 76On October 31, 1517, a monk was so frustrated by the Catholic Church’s practice of selling what he called “indulgences” that he published the “95 Theses” against the so-called “indulgences” in the Catholic Church. His name was Martin Luther, and his theses started a religious revolution! These indulgencies he was against allegedly allowed people […]

Views: 92There is a proverb among the Ewe people of Ghana which says “Nya mɛdzina amɛ o. Amɛ e dzina nya.” to wit “Trouble does not look for man. It is man that looks for trouble.” Often, we are very active participants in the processes that lead to our problems. This thought was reinforced by […]

Views: 104One staple of the Ghanaian is “fufu.” Often, people would want to combine their fufu with soup containing all kinds of meat and fish. But when you meet a Ghanaian talking about fufu and “akrantie” soup, the excitement is in a class of its own! “Akrantie” is bushmeat popularly called grasscutter, and variously known […]

Views: 52From time to time, we read something in the Bible that shocks us even though we might have read it several times in the past. Often, the shock comes from the way another translation puts it. John 12:1-6 shocked me like that this morning when I read it from the New Living Translation. This […]

Views: 49It started like a very familiar instruction, something he had probably done before; and in a similar situation too. So he assumed the same procedure would work. But it cost him dearly. In yesterdays devotional entitled, “Look Straight,” we looked at how an accidental sight led David into sin, and a lot of trouble, […]