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We eagerly sing: “Count your blessings, count them one by one.” Maybe adding a verse is not a bad idea: “Count your words, count them one by one.” For some reason or another, people think that “mouth sins” like badmouthing, dirty language, cursing, and gossiping are not as serious as those “mortal sins” like adultery, [...]

Paul Arden said that risk is not compatible with age. Thus, you take fewer and fewer risks as you age. Safety and predictability are the stuff of grown-ups, while courage and uncertainty are the fuel of younger ones. Give the youth a challenge and they grab it with both hands. Give the same challenge to [...]

Some researchers calculate that as many as 200 million Christians live in extreme poverty all over the world. And that while 40% of the world’s population lives below the breadline of about $2 per day. HIV/Aids is the fate of around 50 million people, while far over 14 million children have already lost one or [...]

Every time that I read God’s sightseeing tour of creation with his servant Job from Job 38 onward, I stand amazed. These chapters tell over and over how great and good God is. With his own hands He artfully formed the earth and dammed up the waters. He pours out rain over the earth aqnd [...]

The life of Joseph, the well-known bible figure of whom we read of in Genesis 38-50, was a complete mess for years. His strong moral values landed him in an Egyptian jail. He refused to have an extramarital affair with Potifar’s wife, and then she accused him of immorality. Potifar believed his wife and had [...]

No two people on earth share the same fingerprints. But, did you know that our ‘eyeprints’ are equally unique? The developer of the Iris ID, John Daugmann of Cambridge University in England, already compared the ‘eyeprints’ of 30 million people. No one of them are the same. As if that is not enough, each of [...]

It seems to me that safe people are as scarce as safe places. Who or what is a safe person? It is someone before whom you can open your heart wide. It is someone with whom you can be yourself without fearing that he/she will use it against you. A safe person will always protect [...]

While we think we can life on our own for God, like a brave spiritual Rambo, we are missing the point. In 1 Corinthians 12:13, Paul puts it clearly that the one Spirit made us into one body, the living Church or Body of Christ. That is why we are now accountable to others with [...]

“Does one’s brain sweat if you think hard?” someone asked the other day on Twitter. Well, to think takes energy. Our brains have relatively little energy available… about 40kw’s worth. That’s why our minds’ are the original energy savers! When it can take shortcuts without thinking, it does exactly that! Your mind has many “routes”, [...]

Have you been the victim of “friendly fire”? It happens when someone says something negative about another person behind her back… then everyone believes it and spreads the story further, free of charge. How tragic that even those on the right side of the friendship-fence and faith-fence continually gossip about each other. I have noticed [...]