As Christians, our devotion to God manifests itself in different ways, some of them are: prayer, fasting and giving. These actions serve as evidence of the love we bear for our Lord, and as acts of worship and consecration. As noble as these acts are, we have a tendency to…

The world often makes fun of, or tries to ridicule what it doesn't understand. And in our world where the Self is king, it certainly makes no sense that certain people would choose to sacrifice their fleshy desires on the altar of worship to God. And that can lead to…

Life is an interesting thing. It's full of beauty and goodness, but also full of great misery and sadness. And everyone of us will go through each of these seasons in our lives on earth. Somehow, we tend to focus more and place a greater emphasis on the difficulties we…

Jesus, being a master communicator, made use of metaphors quite often and the thing about metaphors is they make language colourful by applying the attributes of one thing to another unrelated thing in order to make a comparison. In Matthew 5:13-16, Christ uses the metaphors of salt and light to…

I spoke last week about Christ's high standards and His unwillingness to compromise on the truth. But I don't think a statement better captures this than His words in John 14:6-7 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except…

On Christ’s expectations of us — One very interesting thing I’ve noticed reading about Jesus and His life is the very high standards He has that allow for no compromise. For instance, He once said that unless a person hates his family and even himself, he is not worthy of Him. Obviously, in this context, He…

A recipe for forgiveness — Due to the nature of human relationships, being interactions between imperfect people, offenses are bound to happen. But Christ tells us that the only appropriate way to deal with such offenses is to forgive those who hurt us as God has forgiven us. Jesus told a parable once to illustrate…

God is good. We know this. We say it all the time and you've probably heard it thousands of times. But what does it mean to say that God is good? First it means that He IS good. Goodness is not merely an attribute He possess, in the same way…

About prayer — When we think of prayer, we think of it as a means primarily to make our requests known to God. There are other aspects of prayer, but today we’re concerned with persistence. Which Christ talks about here in Matthew 7:7–8 “Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.