I grew up in a Christian, Bible believing home. One of them beliefs that were strongly held were that disciplining a child must be done using a rod. So I got some serious beatings in my childhood. Some were more scarring than others, but they all scarred me. I have a scar that runs down...
Self dispossession is the price solidarity exacts ~ M Shawn Copeland I love asking questions. Most of my life, I have been asking questions, only difference is how and where I ask them as time has passed. I remember when I got employed after college, the secretary at our department was fed up with my...
When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, saying, “Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone...
I always get amused at my continuous unending tendency to fill in for the unadvertised, unavailable position of Chief Advisor to God. I am sure I am not alone in this. I have ideas you know. Ideas on how God should and maybe could answer my prayers Ideas on the timelines God should work with...
Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” And he laid his hands on them and went away. (Matthew 19:13-15) Jesus loves the...
What comes to you mind when you hear the term ‘Spiritual Formation’? What image is formed in your mind? For many people ‘Spiritual Formation’ is a ‘step program’ that they undertook when they believed in the Lord Jesus and made the same confession with their mouths. It is an event not a continuous process. This...
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created...
Life is tough. It takes up much of your time, all your weekends, and what do you get in the end of it? I think that the life cycle is backward. You should die first, get that out of the way. Then you live twenty years in an old-age home. You get kicked out when...
But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself. And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs (Daniel 1:8-9a) You and your friends have decided to confront...
A SERMON TITLE: Kenya National Anthem – A Prayer for Kenya TEXT: Jeremiah 29:1-14, 1 Peter 2:11-16, Kenya National Anthem