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One day I was on the phone with a family friend. She was on lunch break and on her way to a restaurant. “Are you having lunch by yourself?” I asked. “No, are you crazy! Only losers eat lunch alone. I am meeting a friend.” Like my friend, most people believe that to be alone…

Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You (Psa.73:25). The success of social media is due to man’s longing for significance. He wants to be known and acknowledged for his successes in life. And so the more friends he has the more significant he feels. The more ‘likes’ he receives…

The great majority of believers never move past the stage of spiritual infancy. After conversion they try and hang on and wait for the rapture or death to take them to the next dimension of existence. They are not totally to blame. They have been taught by pastors and teachers that heaven and eternal life…

It took twenty-six months to build the Titanic. It took two hours and forty minutes for the ship to sink to the bottom of the Atlantic after it struck an iceberg. It took more than seventy years to find the remains of the ship. And it has now been more than thirty years since its…

Disciples of Christ are salesmen. We are called to proclaim Christ as the hope for a dying world. The product we offer is eternal life. But what exactly is this eternal life? How well do we know what we are offering to the world?   For most believers, eternal life is synonymous with eternal laziness. Heaven…

Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman (Num.12:1).  Aaron and Miriam couched their racial prejudices under the guise of their ministerial calling and superior wisdom by virtue of being older siblings. Aaron was a priest and he was the older brother. In that era…

Moses had taken to wife an Ethiopian woman. The narrative says Miriam and Aaron “spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman.” The double emphasis here is on the word ‘Ethiopian.’ Moses was eligible for marriage and who else would he marry except a woman? But why marry…