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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…

Romans 1:16 “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes.” A Zimbabwean young man wrote the following before he was martyred: “I’m part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have the Holy Spirit’s power. The die has been cast. I have…

Watch the video here Isaiah 35:7 “The mirage shall become a pool.” (NASB) A platoon of soldiers was marching through the blistering heat of the Egyptian desert during the Second World War in desperate pursuit of water. Their guide was confident of where to find it, but suddenly one of the troops spotted a beautiful…

Matthew 25:13 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.” I once preached on the parable of the ten virgins near the Burundi/Congo border. It’s not a complicated parable. Do take a look at it in Matthew 25. My sermon could be boiled down to three things: A number of…

1 Corinthians 6:20 “You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your body.” Ken Cooper said: “We do not stop exercising because we grow old – we grow old because we stop exercising.” I was on a 3-hour flight to Chicago and I knew it wasn’t going to…