GOD NEVER GIVES UP ON US
GOD NEVER GIVES UP ON US Rima a young woman in her mid forties is married and has a young son who is a toddler. She got married as a matured single and was quite established in her career as a human resources manager at an IT firm before she met her husband. Shortly after marriage, she considered a career
Continue ReadingKEEP HEAVEN IN VIEW
KEEP HEAVEN IN VIEW A few years ago while talking with a friend I expressed concern about how the world was slowly but surely getting worse. And so I said, let Jesus come now, enough already! How much more evil, injustice, decadence and immorality can we possibly take? And she said “Jesus should not come yet o! I am not
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DO NOT LET THEM STUMBLE What is it with helicopters lately? I had planned my article around a helicopter story before the news of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and other passengers hit the airwaves. May the souls of the departed rest in peace and I pray that their families will be comforted and know the peace of
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LET US ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER This is a new year and already many of us have made well laid out plans for the next eleven months or there about. That is very good because it has often been said that “if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” However, no matter how “tight” our plans are; accidents happen. Things
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BE A GOOD REPRESENTATIVE A traditional ruler in the south western part of Nigeria where I come from, is commonly referred to as an “oba”; which is really short for “oba alase”. When translated into English, that means “Sovereign one” or simply, one that has supreme power and authority (over the geographical location where they reign). In English the word
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MOVE FORWARD IN 2020 A very happy new year to one and to all. Here is wishing us God’s best now and always. No matter how great a year 2019 was for some, I am certain that nobody would want to go back there. Or would they? I should hope not. That would be an act of backwardness. And I
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SALT AND LIGHT OF THE EARTH Anybody who knows me well knows that I absolutely love good food, and even more I love cooking good food. Combining fresh ingredients together to make a delicious meal and then sharing it with family and friends is a very rewarding experience, especially during this festive season when most of us are home for
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GIVE HIM YOUR HEART I remember a song by the Swedish musical “Super group” ABBA ; that goes “Thank you for the music”. Some of the lyrics say “Mother says I was a dancer before I could walk, she says I began to sing long before I could talk….” I often feel that this is the case with me. I
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CHRIST IS NOT AN “X” Jesus Christ is the real deal; And you must pursue Him with zeal; Then why refer to Him as an “x”? Know ye not that He will vex? An “x” refers to that without identity, But stay with Christ and gain eternity. (but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord; Romans
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THESE OFFERS LAST FOREVER About a couple of weekends ago, we all witnessed the biggest annual shopping extravaganza in the world known as “Black Friday.” “Black Friday” originated from the United States of America sometime in the 1950’s when police men in Philadelphia coined the name to describe the human and vehicular traffic on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Now though, it
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