Read Reflect Answered prayers, healing, health, wealth and fame. God made Hezekiah extremely rich (v 29a) and a resounding success – “In fact, everything he did was successful!” (v 30b) Hezekiah ‘had it all,’ it seems. So everyone thought; but God doesn’t stop there. For God, ‘the matter of the heart is the heart of […]

Read Reflect Hailing from a subregion of the world that has had its share of horrible political upheavals and atrocious civil wars, I recall my shock when one local missionary I was traveling with, upon hearing me cursorily mentioning the name of a particular military dictator, actually say something to this effect: “I hope he […]

Read Reflect The Book of Nahum is the seventh book of the 12 minor prophets of the Bible. For those who understood that the Prophet Nahum’s name actually means “comforter,” the melancholic tone of the visions and oracles herein must have made them wonder what there was to be comforted about. But it all depended […]

Read Reflect You know how evangelicals are supposed to love the whole Bible but certain books and verses are really, really, really loved? Well, while growing up in Scripture Union circles one of such verses dearly loved was “If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31, KJV) How true, how profound, […]

Read Reflect This passage would make an excellent script for a movie depicting a bloody war. One of my young mentees was a child soldier who has now come to know Christ. Isaac has seen, heard and practiced unspeakable things, some of which we come across in this brutal passage. Most people you speak to […]

This psalm is a picture of what shalom looks like in practice.

We can only imagine what it would be like if everything in our lives were perfect. Perfect harvests. Plenty of food. Fruit and vegetables in abundance and at an affordable price.

Read Reflect In our postmodern society, we have a tendency to believe that truth is relative.  So then, believing, “what is true for me may not be true for another” actually becomes quite easy to adhere to.  This way of thinking affirms that no truth is absolute and that all truth is relative. Truth is […]