Category: Bible Story Lessons
Biblical narratives presented as stories, plays, and poems, paired with meditative pieces for reflection and prayer.
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Win every challenge
A major investment that brings the kind of returns that move you from being a petty trader to a medium scale entrepreneur is likely to come with such risks that many stop on the ground floor of business and career. What can be even more stressful is not so much the risk at any one…
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Go deep and wide
A round of misbehaviour brought on this insight. My firm conviction is that airport tolls have become too expensive! A count of Ghana cedis for hanging around the airport for less than an hour. Naaaaa…. So these days, I do a terribly naughty thing.
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Exodus – it is good to be confused
That afternoon years ago, Moses had heard the strangest conversation. And since then, life has cascaded from one trauma to another. Moses had plummeted from prince to fugitive.
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Is God with me?
So is God real? I think that if we are not even convinced by the many confirmations in the order of creation, the beauty of nature, and the love expressed in provision of sun, water, food, health and relationships, we should be convinced by the fulfilling of prophecy. That God is real.
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Striking the iron when it’s hot
Not all opportunities are good. I can assure you. This is because opportunities are not only occurrences, they are significant junctions that can affect your direction for good or confusion. New job with shinier prospects.
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Roll back the darkness
I keep praying, drinking in the kissing of heaven and earth on my verandah. It’s speaking peace. Kenya, Cote D’Ivoire, Sudan will hear the voice of treaties and cries, as Angola and Rwanda seem to have done. Don’t fret.
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Rooted, established, firm …
Fruiting comes from rooting. The deeper the roots, the weightier the fruit. Again, fruit may take time to show up, but when they do, they are priceless. That’s why God is always anxious to tell Israel, ‘take root down, bear fruit up’.
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Friendship – Far from the madding crowd
The lady had a book open on her lap. She had a pen and seemed to be underlining what she read out. The guy peered over her shoulder, had his face almost in her hair and – were they reading together?
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Heaven is the treasure
Heaven is to be the ultimate treasure in all of life’s pursuit, if we are to regard ourselves as successful. God encourages us to live valuing eternity. Thinking about eternity. Investing in eternity. Working for eternity. Avoiding hell in eternity.
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Pearls of great price
Values are the threads that define our character. The robe of many colors we carry around – and leave behind when we move on. The pieces of our heart that speak louder than our words.