Gospel Ministry in Light of the Resurrection

Doing Gospel ministry can sometimes feel like a job for the defeated among a defeated people that works with a lot of defeat. You have a minister laboring to see a church grow. A youth worker seeking transformation amongst his teenage congregation. A missionary trying to swim against the culture upstream. But as our modern …

The Idol of the People Pleaser

You meet this guy who always shows up when he's needed. He never wants to fail people. If anything he'll go out of his way to serve others. You think, if everyone was like him how far would this ministry go. Why can't people be this committed? But then you realise something, he doesn't take …

Learning to Ride with God

When you learn to drive you also learn to bear with the agony of traveling with other drivers. There's always someone who'll think you are too slow, too careful and just not cut for the city. Another thinks you are too fast, too reckless and can't believe you passed the driving test. From the moment …

The Tragedy of Good Men

The power of the Gospel is clearly revealed when a man who lived an evil life turns around to follow Jesus. This is why we love apostle Paul's story. We love hearing those kinds of testimonies that say I was a completely different person before I met Jesus. I was a drunkard, a murderer, a …

Finding Rest in a Restless World

There's a restlessness in us that seems unquenchableWe call it the desire to do better and achieve moreWe give our best in life to make it easierWe kill ourselves with work to be able to rest one day We hope that at one point our lives will be betterOur achievements will be enviable and life …

Burn the old Bridge

If we keep looking over our past Imagining what would have beenWondering if we are missing outLonging for what this body cravesSoon we'll forget the chains of the old slave masterWe've got to burn that bridge so we never look back If we keep playing with the fireEntertaining that old man of sinFeeding him when …

Put your chains on me

Lord I have fought you since I came to this earthLike a restless beast I've desired to go my own wayLured by the world and the desires of the fleshDriven by the whims of the enemy I foughtBut now I know my freedom is in your chains I pray Lord that you'd hold me tightly …

Be the Lord of my Heart

We should watch the things that put us to tearsThe anticipation that gives us sleepless nightsThe dreams that catch us in broad daylightThey are our greatest worries or treasuresThese indeed are our truest convictions The headlines that captivate us the mostThe things we admire and get jealous overThat which makes our knees to weakenThey say …

The Gospel for a Hustler Nation

One of the fears we have as a people is to imagine that either our leaders don't know our situation or they simply don't care. It's double tragedy to imagine they'd careless about our fate and instead only favour their peers. It's painful, it makes us angry knowing we put them there but hopeless when …

The Heart of True Leaders

When you listen keenly to political analysts debate each other you can hear their master speaking behind them. They'll use facts and quote the Constitution all while construing and obliquing it in ways that favour the hand that feeds them. Activists are no different though they'd like us to believe they are the neutral custodians …