This piece was originally published by Spectrum magazine on Aug 10, 2020. Growing up in beautiful Southern Africa with its different and yet ever so beautiful landscapes like the wild and sandy Kalahari desert to its open and yet at times pathless forests; one learns a lot from nature.  One lesson that pertains to part 3 of our

LESSONS FROM ACTS 15:36-41 (PART 2) One of the great tragedies of life that has a way of shaping who we eventually become is the words that people say about us as we grow up. As humans, we tend to internalize most of, if not everything that is said about us. And those mostly unrefined,

LESSONS FROM ACTS 15:36-41 (PART 1) Some years back, Bill and Gloria Gaither wrote a song entitled ‘Feeling at home.’ The last stanza of that song has stuck with me for a long time and has helped shape my Christian identity. The verse in question says: “Feeling at home in the presence of Jesus Needed

Someone once challenged me to list all the prayers and promises in scripture that God responded to or brought to pass instantaneously. I didn’t go too far in my search before I had to wrestle with texts such as Genesis 3:15, in which the promised seed only came centuries later. And Genesis 6:3, in which

It is hard to believe and yet surprisingly true that several major turning points in Israelite history had circumcision at the center of it all. When Abraham was 99 years old, God made a covenant with him that he was to be a father of a great nation (Genesis 17:10); and circumcision was to be

Some years back, I was flying to South Africa to visit friends and family. Approaching Johannesburg’s O.R Tambo airport, as my plane was on its holding pattern, I took a look outside, and my mind was not prepared for what I saw. It suddenly dawned to me that of all the time I have spent