I remember when I was very little, my father would make me sit at the dinner table until I have finished all my food, and like most kids, vegetables were the reason I still had to sit there while everyone else was already on the couch watching TV. Children, blissfully ignorant of what...
Category: Focus on Christ
Birthday Tribute
It feels just like yesterday when I was 5 years old and this year, I add on a zero, making it 50. How time has gone by in, what feels like, a split second. A quick flashback on my life, highlights many highs and lows and today I want to write a birthday...
Grace is not a license to sin
How great is our God? He gave us His one and only Son, so that we can be saved. Yes, when Jesus died on the cross, he suffered and died so that we may receive grace and forgiveness, and by defeating death, we now share in the inheritance of Paradise. The cross made...
You Say – I Say
Scenario: A group of teenagers sit in the cafeteria at school and the next minute a fight breaks out between two boys. After pushing each other around, it ends in a fist fight and subsequently both are in the principal’s office, sharing their side to the story. Naturally it becomes a, You say...
The other L word
There is an L-word that we all know very well, that is all over scripture and that is holding everything together. This L word is the reason I can write this today, this L word is the reason any of us even have a chance at salvation, and this L word is and...
Even If
Today is 27 April 2021 and according to worldometer, more than 148 million people have been infected with the Covid-19 virus since the pandemic started. From January to date (constantly counting), more than 13 million babies have been aborted, more than 700 thousand deaths have been caused by alcohol, more than 340 thousand...
10:31
What time is it where you are now? Here by me it is 10:31. I sure hope it is 10:31 on your side of the world as well! I find myself so many times in a situation where I am not sure if what I do is right in the eyes of the...
Keeping up with the Joneses
Have you ever driven past a neighbourhood and looked at the houses and said to yourself that it is out of your league? Let us just be honest now, don’t we all do that even in the different spheres of life? I am taken back in my mind to when I was a...
Tomorrow
It is only natural for us to make plans, in fact, it is necessary for us to make plans for certain things in life in order for us to be successful. We may have short term plans for tomorrow, next week, next month and so on, or we may have plans for much...
Don’t let it go
I am reminded of the song from the Frozen movie, when Elsa sings, let it go! A part of the lyrics says: “Let it go, let it go. I am one with the winds and sky. Let it go, let it go, you’ll never see me cry. Here I stand and here I...