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Romans 8:37 “We are more than conquerors.” An African proverb says that ‘if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together’. Confession time: I’m all about speed. I love going fast. And sometimes it’s fine, but sometimes it really backfires. I’m always walking ten yards ahead of my…

Conduit or Cul-de-Sac? Luke 12:48 “From the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.” We are blessed to be a blessing. John Piper writes on the subject of money: “The point is: a $70,000 salary does not have to be accompanied by a $70,000 lifestyle. God is calling us to…

Luke 2:52 “And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and men.” I recently got rebuked for my blog post on reaching 40-years-old entitled: ‘Reflections of an Old Fart’. “Immature!” they cried, and I had to hold my hands up. A few months ago, I accidentally broke wind on the treadmill…

Romans 5:5 “God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.” A young lady I know in Burundi watched her mother and father hacked to death right in front of her. From that day on, and for the next seven years, she simply stopped growing. Then,…

Watch the video here Matthew 25:21 “Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things.” In Jesus’ parable, there were two servants: one was proactive; the other was reactive: Fyodor Dostoevsky understood this. He said (“You wicked, lazy servant!”) before being…

Isaiah 40:31 “Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.” As Father Raniero Cantalamessa writes, the three virtues of faith, hope and love “are like three sisters. Two of them are grown and the other is a small child. They go forward together hand in hand with the child hope in the middle.…

Luke 15:29 (The older brother said to his father): “Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.” A poor Burundian woman found herself in a violent marriage. Her overbearing husband would write out…

Philippians 1:21 “For me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Life has become so dull and safe for many of us. Risks, we are warned, should be avoided at all costs. Safety seems to have become the highest goal, and the worship of safety emasculates creativity and life. It seems that we…

2 Timothy 1:7 “For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear.” My book ‘Dangerously Alive’ starts as follows: “I sped around the bend in the road on my motorbike, but quickly scrambled to a stop, surprised to see a figure in the middle of the road, just ahead of me. He was holding a…

Psalm 24:1 “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.” Sometimes I’m so overwhelmed by the needs I see around me or those I see on TV from around the world that I just want to blot them all out by switching channels and watching a…