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haveI have been a Christian or Born Again Believer for more than 50 years. It is therefore normal to believe that I have had my fair share of battles with sin, problems in general, and disillusionment with life in general. At least, I am very secure in the fact that I...
2.How to Truly Love
Can we say that people speak different love languages? In the final instance it matters less what you say or do to/for a person or what you give them than how you make them feel. If you give someone salt for his coffee, he is going to feel you don't care about him and...
1.How to Truly Love
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second IS LIKE IT: You shall love your neighbour as yourself. (NKJV) Matthew 22:37-39 (MSG) Joh 13:35 This is how...
How did I get here?
How have I become Who I am? It is a common thought that we are the total of our choices but are we happy, or do you have some regrets? If you have regrets, please read on. To put this in perspective, let's look at someone else first. After all, it is a lot easier to...
Does God protect us against unfairness?
This sounds like such a silly question. In my mind, my God is the God of the universe and He can protect me against anything!I was recently confronted with an extremely unfair situation in which I was so sure God was going to deliver me. I even had a versePro 21:22...
Why do “God Ideas” fail?
I think a lot has been said about a Good Idea vs a God Idea. So often we see someone's good idea fail and then we argue that the reason it failed, was because the person just started something but never consulted God first so now it failed because it was not a God...
6.Preparing your Toddler for his/her Career
Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” We all understand the concept of acceptable behaviour and we've learnt to 'dance' around it and often it ends in manipulative behaviour by the culpit just to be...
2.Be ‘Awake’ to handle the Next Event
Does the next event not describe a very familiar situation? Act 3:1 Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.Yes, we are often busy with the Lord's work when we are interrupted by 'unplanned' events.Act 3:2 And a...
1.Be ‘Awake’ to handle the Next Event
We are often not in control of the next event. It often happens even when we've been careful to plan the process. So, although we are not always in control of situations around us or the way other people will behave, we are ALWAYS in control of our reaction to those...
5.Preparing your Toddler for his/her career
Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”Many a time as parents we wonder if the way in which we do things for our children are correct or not. Sometimes when faced with a situation where our children...
4.Preparing your Toddler for his/her career
This is a Testimony rather than a Technique when we simply discovered what our God says in 1 Sam 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. This revelation sparked the desire to take our God given authority as parents over our Children to align their behaviour...
1.Be Kind
What does it even mean to be Kind? Is that simply to be 'Nice'? Does it mean I must be the 'door mat' no matter what? Let's start with a dictionary definition for Kindness as a Noun : 'the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.' The principle to 'Be...
2.Values and Principles – The Golden Rule
"What is the Golden Rule?" Matthew 7:12 (NLT) “Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets. The “Golden Rule” is the name given by Bible translators to a principle Jesus taught. The...
1.Values and Principles
We often try to box the expected behaviour of our fellow men into a couple of Do's and Don'ts and also attempt to raise our children accordingly. We train them with phrases like 'This is how our Family behaves'. I actually gave each of my Children an A4 sheet filled...
Impact
We all want to be winners, right? We will all be winners if we are simply doing what we were designed to do. This is so obvious: the best Screwdriver is one who behaves like a Screwdriver and is willing to be used by the Master's Hand to do exactly what it...
2.What is your Legacy?
Did you get the feeling I wanted to say more in the previous Post on Legacy? You are right and here is Part2. I believe most Men miss the boat totally when it comes to this. We are so concerned with our Jobs and making Money that we miss the whole purpose....
1.What is your Legacy?
How do you want to be remembered one day? Isn't it amazing how certain character traits run in families? People in such a family are often quite proud of the fact that they are stubborn or as they call it 'strong willed'. In other cases they actually use their family...
6.Only 3 Days to Live – Do you have unfinished business?
You have to start with Part 1 to give you Background to this series. Part 6. Do you have unfinished business? I’ve had the experience a couple of times to let a relationship just go or to try and fix it. Whenever I asked God what He thought, He always told me to fix...
5.Only 3 Days to Live – Is your Will in order?
You have to start with Part 1 to give you Background to this series. Part 5. Is your Will in order? Often men can really beat themselves up about their responsibility to provide for their families. It was actually my wife who freed me from this burden. I remember how...
4.Only 3 Days to Live – Why did God give me children?
You have to start with Part 1 to give you Background to this series. Part 4. Why did God give me children? I have 4 beautiful daughters. God wants them to carry this message, (His message) to their children again. If they then tell their children again and so on, God...
3.Only 3 Days to Live – Why do I stay with my wife?
You have to start with Part 1 to give you Background to this series. Part 3. Why do I stay with my wife? Because God gave her to me as a gift. I am happy with my gift and I know He had her and me in mind when He planned our 4 daughters. Again, it is simple. I’m not...
2.Only 3 Days to Live – Why I follow God?
You have to start with Part 1 to give you Background to this series. Part 2. Why I follow God? Joh 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Now who is Jesus? Historians agree He lived… The world...
3.How do you make your Boss feel?
Let's talk about more specific ways you can act, and how it makes your boss feel. Remember our verse: 1Pe 2:18 Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh. Your boss gives you a task. You complete it...
2.How do you make your Boss feel?
Let's talk about a few specific ways you can act, and how it makes your boss feel. You come in at exactly 08h00, take lunch at 12h30, come back from lunch at 13h30 and leave work at 17h00. This sounds perfect. Congratulations, you can read a watch. You are only paid...
3.Preparing your Toddler for his/her career
Let me just put it out there - my children also threw tantrums and embarrassed us in public but we did not accept that. Prov 19:26 Kids who lash out against their parents are an embarrassment and disgrace. Prov 19:27 If you quit listening, dear child, and strike off...
2.Preparing your Toddler for his/her career
We ended Part 1 of this series on a high note with Prov 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. The Bible says we need to honour our parents in Ex 20:12. Note there are no age limits to either of these scriptures!...
1.How do you make your Boss feel?
What does my boss want from me anyway? He is such an old drip. “Chips”, here comes the boss. He always wants me to do things his way. The boss is in a bad mood today. Have you ever wondered what causes your boss to act the way he does; or to feel the way he feels?...
1.Only 3 Days to Live – Background
If I only had 3 days left on earth, what are the 5 things I would want to finish? My whole life is on my computer and when my computer crashed recently, I realized I’ll be without it for 3 days because I’m out of town. It is as if my whole life came to a halt....
What I’ve learnt from my affair…Part 3
Recovering from the affair and rebuilding my marriage. This was a long and very difficult process. The details are in our “Testimony”. I just want to mention here that God had been good to us and gave us a better marriage than we’ve had before. He gave us a “Marriage...
What I’ve learnt from my affair…Part 2
Biblical Perspective We often see other people doing things and soon use that as our yard stick. The Bible has many historical facts and we can be mislead in a similar way to move away from God's initial 'design' and just do what other people did. Verses like Deu...
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