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By Not Known What do you find yourself often praying for each day? What do you often need yet find lacking in your life? Do you ever ask God for strength? Do you need courage in your present situation? In difficult times in our life, do we find ourselves often crippled or plagued by fear and discouragement? Do we succumb to temptation in our moments of weaknesses? God’s…

By Not Known As we come to the end of our study on the book of Daniel, some of us may find that there are still many unanswered questions. Do we need all the answers at this point? What will it do even if we have them? The big question really for us is how then shall we live today knowing what we already know. Who.  Last Sunday, we heard that the focus is on the One…

By Not Known Recently, I came to know a couple (married for ten years) who is about to be divorced. The husband is involved with another woman and gambling. The wife is suffering great pain with insomnia and feelings of betrayal and deep disappointment. The children hated their dad and cried for attention. How do I help them? How do I really gather enough strength and…

By Not Known Some countries believe that a beautiful face opens up opportunities for a better future so their citizens invest in plastic surgeries. We can change our outward appearances but how do we improve our inner beauty? The Daily Examen is a technique of prayerful reflection on the events of the day in order to detect God’s presence and discern His direction for us,…

By Not Known A careful study on the Word of God caused Daniel to turn to the Lord God and to plead with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes. The portions of God’s Word carefully studied by Daniel were most probably Jeremiah 25:11-12 and 29:10-11, which mentioned the seventy years of exile in Babylon. The death of Belshazzar brought to an…

By Not Known The memorable Rio Olympics had come and gone.  It was made more memorable because our nation took home a gold.  But for me, it was even more memorable when I watched the 4x100m relay races.  I remembered this event well; for as a school boy, the memory when we set the combined schools record cannot be erased.  Still, we almost did not make…

By Not Known For some, Daniel 7-12 can be very exciting as it deals with some not-so-simple views into apocalyptic literature. For others, these chapters can be confusing and even disturbing. As Christians who love our Bible, we can’t avoid these passages of Scripture. What do they mean and how do we understand them today? Apocalyptic literature is a genre that has some…

By Not Known The very first thing I learn after moving to Texas was what a tornado warning sounded like.  When the alarm goes off, residents are advised to take shelter without delay. Tornadoes are scary even when the people are prepared for it.  On 9 May 1986, meteorologists in Dallas county, central Iowa indicated severe weather warnings.  At…

By Not Known To some people, God’s mercy should be shown to everyone without conditions. All should be saved no matter what sin a person has committed. God should be merciful and forgiving all the time. But our God is sovereign and all knowing. He has said, “…I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion” (Exodus…