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'Once upon a time' as the saying goes, the Lord woke me with a massively big undertaking. Let me tell you about it. I had felt totally bereft of His presence and had reached a crossroads. Did God care at all about me or did He not? Was I still on His radar or had He...
On the southern coast of Victoria, Australia, there is a small beach where the remains of two different shipwrecks can be seen: Wreck Beach. Wishing to see the wrecks, my husband and I bounced over a very rough, unpaved road for over 6 km and then scooted down a...
"This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus." (1 John 4:17 NIV) Beep! Beep! Beep! My arm swung over to my dresser and grabbed the alarm clock that had awakened me. I shut it off...
Just as Miss Anna Jarvis is credited for giving "birth" to "Mothers Day", Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd is credited for triggering an action that led to Father's Day becoming a U.S. national holiday. Her story began as she sat listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Mrs....
Have you caught football fever yet? Well, I must admit that once the quadrennial football fever contagion "breaks out" once every four years, consider me gladly "infected." I can assure you of the fact that one can never truly "get sick" of the "kick" of football's...
Coming to the second part of our "Soccer Sorcery" series, let us focus on the "Manager's role" in the game of Football. Instruction ... Unlike Cricket, where the captain is the one in charge of the team, the field manager, or "coach," is essentially the life essence...
Even though "football fever" seems to be an ever-growing contagion, let us take the time to dive right into the penultimate part of this series, and thus, into a few more spiritual lessons we can learn from Soccer! Capitalization... Does the name Gerd Muller ring any...
We've now arrived at the concluding part of the "Soccer Sorcery" series. What further spiritual lessons can we glean from this fascinating game of Football? Let's find out! Co-ordination... Now let's play a defence-splitting pass, splitting Satan's defence that is!...
Crack! Crack! Crack! The whiplashes on the bared back of innocent...Majnu...in the Laila-Majnu Movie, an eastern oriental equivalent of Romeo and Juliet, made me move uneasily in the Cine theatre seat. I was all of 10 years at the time, and the background musical...
Continuing our Series on the similarities between Christ the Bridegroom and the Church, His Bride, today we come to two more areas where we find stark similarities... Progression... Jesus grew in stature and wisdom in the eyes of man and God by humbly obeying His...
Coming to the penultimate part of our series on the similarities between Christ the Bridegroom and His bride, the church, today we shall focus on two more areas where we find stark similarities... Persecution... If the Bridegroom was subjected to the persecution of...
In the concluding part of our Series on the similarities between Christ the Bridegroom and the church, His bride, today we come to fourmore areas where we find stark similarities... Transformation... It is the kind of trials and tribulations which the Bridegroom...
"May I take that out of your way?" S-L-O-W S-L-O-W S-L-O-W... I hate when the waitress asks that question. That means those with whom we're having dinner have finished their meals, and it's a sign for me to hurry. Tough to do because chances are I'm still munching...