Today, close to three years after a couple I knew of, had broken up, I saw on Facebook that the lady was engaged to a new gentleman, her having posted an engagement picture of them together. Thinking back to the brief time that she had been in a relationship with the other guy, based on…
A manipulative person deliberately uses people and whatever knowledge she has of them, to control them, their responses and outcomes, by deliberately employing tactics, without the persons realizing it, so as to get what she wants. The manipulative woman therefore takes control of a person, by getting him or her to behave how she wants…
(The Faith Forum Series – Batch 11) In Genesis 28:20-21, after Jacob had left his parents in Beersheba when fleeing his brother Esau and went, upon their instructions, to Haran, while on his journey, it says: The place that Jacob was in when he made this vow, was named Luz but he renamed it Bethel…
(My One Day Dream Wedding Series – Batch 2) Weddings are varied and couples pretty much do as they please on that day. There are no hard and fast rules as to how a Wedding should be. However, for Christians, I would think that they should be guided by certain principles of wisdom found in…
There are backsliders who have stopped attending Church and there are those who continue to attend Church regularly and religiously. Some have committed sins that are considered to be great and grievous, while others have engaged in sins that people may consider to not be as bad. For some, everyone knows what they did and…
(The Faith Forum Series – Batch 11) There are sufficient accounts given in the Bible, what we know of our past brothers and sisters in the Lord and even from our own experiences in life, for us to know that as Christians, when we are engaged in God’s work, this attracts opposition. In particular, when…
(The Faith Forum Series – Batch 11) It dawned on me this morning, while reading a random portion of scripture, that Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus was an example of a woman that was criticized on more than one occasion, while all she sought to do was to draw closer to the Lord…
(The Information & Edification Series – Batch 10) I have a tendency to worry and feel saddened and down when I think that people have been badmouthing me or don’t like me, especially when I did nothing to them and they are therefore seemingly hating on me without a cause. It is something I struggle…
(The Information & Edification Series – Batch 10) I recently came across a sermon by Charles Spurgeon (now deceased), which I felt I should share here. In his sermon entitled ‘Fickle Followers’, Spurgeon addressed the issue of what it means to genuinely come to the Lord Jesus Christ in repentance and why so many who…
(The Information & Edification Series – Batch 10) We are to be respectful but yet resolute. By this I mean, that we are to be respectful to authority, whether it be at the governmental level, the Church level, at work or at home but at the same time, we must be resolute or determined in…