"But the LORD said to Samuel, 'Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.'" (1 Sam 16:7 NIV) Things are never...
“Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.” (Rom 15:7 NIV) “Blue-headed Pionus are boring. They kind of just sit there and do nothing all day!” Hum. Doesn’t sound too encouraging, does it? Especially coming from several...
One of the proofs that this World has been cursed by the Fall (Romans 8:20-23) is that in it defilement spreads by contact, whereas holiness doesn't (Haggai 2:11-13). By the same token, disease is contagious, whereas sadly good health isn't. A Chikungunia epidemic (in...
In the previous part of the series on "avoiding prejudice", my dear friends would remember me focusing on two Scriptural instances of "Prejudice in operation", which caused "great emotional pain" to the innocents. Today in the second part of the series, we shall train...
Like a lot of other people, I have vilified a woman over a long period. Somewhere along the track, she was said to be a really nasty person. A lot of people have talked about her both in print and on radio and I have sat in audiences where she was described as the...
Oh, we began with Jim Thorpe, the ultimate Olympic athlete of his generation who had to contend with the fickle Olympic authorities of his times. Continuing our Series on mood swings of the people which resemble a swinging pendulum, we come to yet another incident in...
We human beings usually are so quick to point the finger at someone, judge him or her according to our standards of good behaviour and when we judge them we in a way condemn them. However, before we make a judgment, we should read in the Gospels what Jesus had to say...
"Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you." (Matt 7:1-3 NKJV) I was driving home the other day on a sunny afternoon. I had a smile on my face as I sang along...