Heb 11:30  By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed seven days.
Heb 11:31  By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace.

Right after the Jericho-wall-came-down testimony comes the most unlikely ‘patriarch’ of faith – Rahab! How in the world would Rahab make it to the list with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua and other big shots? How comfortable is it thinking of Rahab in my cloud of witnesses? Unconventional to say the least! And what’s more? Rahab made it to the lineage of Jesus. This is too much for a … [it’s even difficult to mention such a word].

This should cause a great confusion for theologians; Moralists will definitely ‘beef’ God on this one. It’s just by mercy that even a righteous man be saved but hey, not a whore! There should have been other ‘normal’ people around that could be used for such a noble cause. Why a prostitute for God’s sake!

But this is where we see the very character of God; this is how we differ in reasoning. Read the rest of this entry »

In the Christian faith, there appears to be many gray areas…

Some religious organisations will lay out their own tenets of faith while others will spell outrightly, RULES (okay, some may brand it as something kinda annoying like code of conduct…). In some settings, these things may not be written in black and white but there’ll just be an air that will make you choke going against ‘the creed’. In some settings where things like putting on jeans (even for a brother) is just below the ‘abomination line’ , you stand the chance of excommunication if you tread such grounds. It even spreads beyond the conventional external trappings to seemingly spiritual activities…

Unfortunately many of these and related practices will not produce spiritual fruit sooner or later. A lot of it will not go beyond dead religion. Cutting down a tree will require exceedingly more effort than picking it’s leaves - this is even more effective compared with people advancing in spiritual things by a mere set of moral rules… this is where consecration comes in. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s almost midnight, and one of the last things on my mind now is sleeping! Checklists are finish a movie (Confessions of a Shoppaholic - nice one so far), finish some id card designs, try to finish a brochure design (with like 4 or 5 others including a magazine for church - more of coverpage left), try to work on a friends website (men, the guy’s breathing down my neck), try to learn somethings, try to plan for tomorrow… definitely scarey…u can tell am going to bed tired!

A few minutes ago, I was in a chat with a friend, and he was ‘over encouraging’ me to get into a relationship (yeah the emotionally creepy stuff - just kiddin oh, it’s one of the coolest things to be in), so that kinda ‘inspired’ me to do a pre-writeup on what I may properly outline in a bigger post soon. I told him when the right person has her ‘timing’ coinciding with mine we’ll…story story story

But as strong and interesting as erotic love may be Read the rest of this entry »

Gen 11:6  And the Lord said, Behold, they are one people and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do, and now nothing they have imagined they can do will be impossible for them.

It’s been weeks that I’ve written due initially to my ‘laziness’ and then there was a technical issue with logging into my site. But thank God it’s been resolved. I’ll make sure I make up for the days I’ve skipped posting.

A common lesson from the bible book of Genesis is that of the tower of Babel. I guess most people reading this
will be very familiar with the story and the lessons, but I’ll still share them anyway.

God purposes that we multiply and fill the earth so if you’re thinking that 6 billion (the population of the earth) is too many, rethink! God doesn’t want scanty spaces. If God says fill the earth, it means he has deposited means (in terms of wisdom and other abilities and resources) to get it done. The people in the earth however had ‘another plan’.

They decided instead of horizontal expansion…vertical! They intended to build not just a sky scrapper, they intended a sky penetrator Was that going to be possible. I assume at this time the civil and structural engineers were no where to be found or at least they did not have the sophistication to get this one of the kind complex structure up. There were no computer programs to simulate if all the trusses were in perfect alignment. There were no material scientists and engineers to produce the composite structure that would not fail even at, say, 200 storey or even more! God did not dare to laugh at them and say something like, “yeah right, build to heaven”. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m not really a novel-kind-of-person but I was kind of ‘coerced’ into reading this novel, Thr3e. The Davinci Code is about the only novel that I recall I had read before Thr3e and finished! For the Davinci Code, it only took 2 and a half days to get through. It was a controversial book with some crucial aspects of it hinged on lies. Dan Brown twisted Christian historical facts and other historical facts to make it all ‘fit together’. It was a brilliant piece (I must confess). His writing style was impressive (though like I said hinged on lies). Anyway, this post aint about Dan so let’s go to the real business of the post…Thr3e!

Ted Dekker is more or less a genius. His ability to involve the mind with what is fictional but makes all the spiritual sense you’ll require is quite brilliant. Thr3e is about a nice guy named Kevin, a lovely lady named Samantha and a bad guy…Slatter (reminds me of one wrestler? )

Kevin grew up in an uncomfortable environment. He had lost his parents too early so he only knew his aunt Balinda (as family). He wasn’t allowed to go to school or even out of the house for once. His world was limited to the house. It was what Balinda said existed that did – the rest just didn’t. It was only the ‘real things’ portion of the newspaper that Kevin got to see, and that totally distorted his mind – maybe for the rest of his life.

Samantha showed up sometime in Kevin’s life Read the rest of this entry »