TIME TO GET A TRIM About a week ago, I observed that quite a few of my potted plants needed to be pruned. In fact the ferns and palms were terribly unkempt and very bushy. No wonder nothing new and fresh was springing forth! Well I decided to get out my pruning shears and give them a very good

LET GOD TAKE CONTROL! Tragedy after tragedy struck Naomi, when first she lost her husband and then her two grown sons while she was in a foreign land. And then one of her daughter’s in-law left and returned to her people. She was left with her other daughter in-law, Ruth, which, when compared to all she had lost, did not

JESUS – THE STOREHOUSE OF POWER

A TIME TO GIVE THANKS A lot of people are looking forward to the end of this very deadly scourge called COVID 19. And indeed I pray to the Lord to have mercy and rid the earth of this pandemic. High on the to-do list of many is to get to church for a major Thanksgiving once this is all

THE GOD OF ORDER. In these times I know of a lot of people who have started keeping insanely late nights!  People are still awake at 3 am from the day before. It is a very disorderly thing to do that can easily become a habit which will have debilitating consequences. If you have been doing this, please desist

DO NOT FEAR THE FUTURE There is a place after COVID 19. And we should not be so overwhelmed right now that we will not be able to fit in when that time comes. Because, that time will surely come. We will not remain locked in or locked down forever. But will we go back to business as usual? Or

IT IS SPRING; TIME TO BLOSSOM!  We are still in the Spring. Springtime is one of the four seasons which comes right after winter and just before summer (which comes before autumn).  “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” Ecclesiastes  3:1 KJV  So there is a purpose for this season of

ENCOURAGE YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS What kind of sibling are you?  Are you the one who could not care less what others are going through? Or the one who could not be bothered if another needs help? Life is much more than “the Lord blessing me and mine”! Of course that is good but we have a responsibility as believers

THERE ARE NO SUPER CHRISTIANS   I recently read a book by Trip Lee titled “Rise.” There was chapter in the book called “There are no Super-Christians”. That chapter really captured my attention and it has also inspired this piece. What do you think of when you hear the word “Super-Christian”? Do you think of someone in a cape looking down

WHAT IS YOUR STORY – LET GOD WRITE IT Everybody has a story! Most of us have passed through all kinds of things to be where we are today. And I dare say that whatever we have been through or will go through is part of God’s plan. He alone knows why He allows certain things to happen. Some good