Thoughts and Other Things

2. Get rooted Fellowship is a very important part of your faith. The early church was excellent in this practice; the Bible tells us in the book of Acts how the believers joined together constantly in prayer (1:14) and how they were all together in one place on the day of Pentecost (2:1). But my favourite one is Acts 2:26 “Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts”. I believe this is why this church was so strong and God was able to use it so much, they knew the importance of fellowship. Being part of an assembly allows growth which could have never come had you been alone. By this, I’m not underestimating God’s ability to speak to you alone, but you have to remember that the body is made up of many parts, and for that reason, we need each other. I love 1 Corinthians 12:21 “The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I don’t need you!’ And the head cannot say to the feet, ‘I don’t need you!’ The ...

I had it in my heart to share a few things with the matrics of the school I minister at concerning the transition from high school to university, but things didn’t work out as I planned, so I’ll use this platform to share my heart and hope it gets around. This is also just in case your mamma and papa forget to sit you down before you leave…a few important things to remember when you’re Christian and independent. 1. Tell them all It’s so important that everyone know that you’re a born-again Christian. We all know and love Matthew 5:14 but I like verse 15 more. “Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.” Put your light on its stand when you get there, don’t be silent about your true identity, let it be the first thing people know about you. They may forget your name, but don’t let them forget you’re Christian. I don’t mean this in an arrogant manner, but I’ve learnt that this helps so much when...

ONE YEAR LATER THERE WAS SO much noise in those two living rooms Mpilo couldn't hear herself think. The dining room had been turned into a hair and make-up station and the sitting room a changing room. The door which led to the veranda at the end of the passage between the two living areas was left half-open for air, the weather forecast said it would be a maximum of 30 degrees that day. She sat on the piano stool with the closed piano in front of her, on it a big square mirror. Through it, she could see everyone. “But who gets married on Christmas Eve?” Samantha complained as she searched through her make-up kit for blush amongst the many items on the table. “Says the lady who got married on Valentine’s Day” Mpilo forced to speak while mascara was being applied to her eyes. “Shh” said the make-up artist. “But it was a beautiful wedding, a beautiful beach wedding” Norah said from where she sat in the sitting room having her ice tea, already dressed in her lilac two-piece whic...

My pastor started his end-of-the-year sermon with a very interesting statement (and a lot of what I’ll say is extensions of what he said): ‘there is nothing new or different about 2014’. You should have heard and seen the gasps and confused looks in the audience. He went on. 2014 is identical to 2013; it has 12 months, 365 days and 24 hours in a day, just like 2013 and the year before it. He then explained that no year is different from the other, the only difference is us, the people who exist within it. It’s not about what happens in a year, but what I do with that in that year. I thought this was pretty profound because as he spoke, I was reminded of something the Bible says which sounds quiet familiar. “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, ‘Look! This is something new’? I was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.” Ecclesiastes 1:9-10. My mom always talks about...