The Potent Poison of Pride

I recently read about a guy who was gifted a pufferfish. After preparing it, he boiled it before he and his friend ate it with lime juice. Within less than an hour, he started to feel numb in his mouth. He drove himself to the hospital. Before long, he went into...

Hold On To God’s Word – Part 2

I don’t know about you but last week’s article by Tania spoke to me. The words from Luke 1:37 that she has read hundreds of times before ‘jumped out and hit me in the face’: ‘FOR NO WORD FROM GOD WILL EVER FAIL’ (emphasis hers). These were the words spoken by the...

Hold on to God’s word

Have you been in a relationship with Jesus for a long time? If you are like me and your answer is yes, do you sometimes feel like you’ve read the same Bible words over and over again? It’s like a ‘been there, heard that, read that, seen that, felt that’ kind of...

Prayers Within Our Prayers

“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness.  We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.”  (Romans 8:26) Some time ago I arrived at work and realised I had neglected to pray for a...

Happy Mother’s Day

A very ‘Happy Mother’s Day’ to all women in our church irrespective of whether you are a birth mum, a stepmum, an adoptive or foster mum, an aunty or a spiritual mum. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May He make his face shine upon you. May He pour out His grace...

The Lord’s Supper

With us celebrating communion and remembering the sacrificial death of our Lord this Sunday, I thought I’d write something about it. Actually, it was my daily reading of the Scripture on Thursday that sparked the idea. My reading was from Zechariah 7. On 4 December,...