Courtship Series

I have decided to embark on a series of 10 articles on courtship- one every fortnight. After a year of being in courtship myself, I feel that I am now an authority on the matter. No, I'm kidding. My year with my one and only, has been a learning experience and the learning continues. The articles on the subject are my own thoughts and various things I have gleaned from our courtship counseling sessions...

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Facebook Makes People Sad

In my post entitled facebook, I discussed the advantages and disadvantages of being on facebook. One that I came across and mentioned didn't really qualify as a 'con' to me, mostly because I couldn't identify but over the last few months it has began to make sense. Facebook makes people sad. This...

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The Image of Christian Rap

This week, I saw this on a friend's facebook wall: The caption read, "Mighty men of God right here". I commented and said, "They look like thugs." The response was, "Thugs for Jesus bro!" Thugs for Jesus. They can dress, gesture, wear tattoos and walk like the worldly rappers, but as long as...

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Our Empathetic Captain

Everyone has one of those moments every once in a while when something is said that challenges, rebukes, stirs or encourages you in a very unique way. Sometimes its something that is well known that you didn't know, something people would be surprised to find out had a special impression upon you because its so common. Sometimes its something you already knew that comes to you afresh. But that's how...

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Christian Rap

Downloading some books on Writing from "free-ebooks.net", I saw a book entitled "1 God". The description of the book was: "522 pages of poems depicting the Omniscient Creator, irrefutably proving that there is only one Creator who created this whole universe...". Needless to say, I was hooked! Like a car flying to the finish line in the last stretch of road I was headed for the download button with...

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Thomas Spurgeon (Part 3)

Thomas Spurgeon (Part 1) Thomas Spurgeon (Part 2) Thomas' biographer says: In one respect Thomas Spurgeon the Twin resembled Jacob the Twin—he served two periods of seven years for his reward. In all else he was an Israel, having power with God and with man. His experience in London was very...

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Thomas Spurgeon (Part 2)

Thomas Spurgeon (Part 1) Thomas Spurgeon (Part 3) In part 1, Thomas Spurgeon, son of the great Charles Haddon Spurgeon heads back out to Australia, after a year at home much to the disappointment of his father. His father was eager to have him trained and groomed as both his 'side kick' and eventual...

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Thomas Spurgeon (Part 1)

Thomas Spurgeon (Part 2) Thomas Spurgeon (Part 3) Thomas Spurgeon is not given nearly as much credit as he deserves. Apart from being know as the son and successor of his father Charles Haddon Spurgeon, he remains unknown and yet he achieved great things for God and was a great man, preacher and...

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Whitney Houston

Whatever went wrong with Whitney? A promising rising start with a bright future and a voice to take her there. After her movie role in The Bodyguard, the sky seemed to be the limit. She was a model, singer, actor, record producer and so on. Her movies won at the box office, her singles peaked on the...

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Percy Chisenga (1949-2012)

Pastor Percy Chisenga died on the 1st of March and was buried today. His death came as quite a surprise to me. I thought his cancer of the bladder was well under control. The truth is that with our medical system in Zambia, my fear for those who fall prey to terminal illnesses such as cancer increases...

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