Family issued
You cannot choose your family. I can’t just decide one day that I’m fed up with my parents and brothers and sisters and exchange them somewhere for some others. I can’t pick up the scissors and simply cut the ties between my brother and sister and say that I no longer have any family. Even […]
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God’s things are enough
During the Woordfees in our town there were, as usual, many heated debates about many topics under the sun. Philosophers thought and talked long about many difficult subjects. Politicians tried to see where the problem in our country originated and suggested a few quick solutions. Then theologians joined in and questions were asked like did […]
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Getting what you deserve
One day I watched a movie about a man who had been sentenced to death. Death by electric chair. Getting what he deserved, because this man was a murderer. I wondered how you would feel if you had taken another person’s life? What goes through your mind when you see that person’s life leaving their […]
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God’s grace is more than enough
God’s grace is amazing. “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,” we sing, “I once was lost, but now am found”. Because, 5Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, He embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. Amazing grace. It’s terrible when people belittle God’s grace and want […]
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God of more chances
We regularly make the wrong choices, some bigger than others. Some have a major impact on our lives and cause us to become entangled in sin. Many of us have at one time or another turned our backs on God. This is nothing strange. Even those people who made it into the Bible had done […]
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