Connect is a key word in the church today. Many churches use Connect Groups - small groups that help people connect with God, His Word, other Christians, and a local church. Why? Because when we are left alone, we become more vulnerable to discouragement, deception, heresy, temptation, and loneliness. Covid19 has forced us all into some kind of social isolation or solitary confinement, leading to all kinds of negative results. David speaks of his loneliness in Psalm 142:4“For there is no one who acknowledges me; Refuge has failed me; No one cares for my soul.” Mother Teresa said, “One of the greatest diseases of all is to be nobody to anybody.” Isolation so often leads to devastation.

If I relate the concept of being in tune to selfhood, I refer to a state of understanding yourself and being hyper aware of who you are. You know exactly what is going on or where you are emotionally, intellectually, physically, socially, and spiritually. Tempered with contentment and motivation the understanding of who you are, what value you add, and the stage you are at right now results in an in-tune conceptualization of yourself. Make sense?

Cloning was a big thing a couple of years ago. Even the covid virus got into cloning with the new strains coming about (too soon?). Everyday we experience a new version of ourselves. Last week I felt sick. I was scheduled to travel and what I now realize was anxiety caused me to have a headache, and feel sick. I have not experienced a version of myself that was averse to traveling before.

Today is valentines day. Some of you may have dreaded it and had nightmares featuring “Valentine is coming” by the Kabusa Oriental choir. For others, you may have been looking forward to the possibility of gifts from a secret or known admirer. For those in relationships, you may have had an opportunity to go on a date or do something special together. I used to dislike the commercial aspect of the whole thing.

January has been a long month, no surprise here. However, we made it! I heard Luke Combs’s “Six Feet Apart” on the radio this week and I thought it was an apt song. Like Luke, the conclusion I reached was yes “there will be light after dark”.

My husband and I recently ordered a new sofa and love seat from a furniture store in town. It’s leather, in a beautiful cream colour, with a powered recliner feature in both pieces. We had fun planning and shopping for this set and consider it a reward after years of unanticipated repairs which turned into major renovations on our house.

Have you ever felt the convergence of multiple hammers behind your eyes? Have you felt caged and weighed down by the roles that you ascribed to yourself or have been assigned to you. Have you felt helpless, cold, hungry and alone?

Jesus had the greatest claim to His rights and the greatest power to claim them...but instead..He laid them down and traded them in for a cross. Ironically enough, for the very people that would put Him on that cross.

I have noticed a tendency to base our success on the success of other people. People determine their achievements in life in comparison to their friends, universal standards, and Hollywood. Hence, it is hard to be satisfied or content with the stages we’re in at a given time.

I have vacillated between emotions today. At some point, my blunder and resulting charred food remains pushed me into a banging and throwing tantrum. The new year arrives soon and there is still a lot of uncertainty. If you are a planner, like me, you may be unsure how and what to plan.

The Victory Church people were tithing alot. But grumpy old Grinch – he did not. He hated tithing; and no one new why. So the Grinch started thinking. He made up a plan “I’ll stop them tithing; I know I can.”

Being a part of a connect group is more important today than every before. With the world currently in crisis, being connected to people is vital for our mental health as well as our spiritual health. Here are 5 reasons to join one today- even it is virtual, a community of people to encourage you and connect with is important for everyone.

I want to talk to you about being amazed in the world today. It seems to be a hard thing to do now in this world with a pandemic that is limiting the things we can do. I am amazed at how we seem to go on with our lives even though we have been limited with what we can do.

In my previous posts, I’ve concluded that there can be no doubt anymore at this point of what is brewing in our culture and what we are facing. The one true God is Lord over history, and He has now called Christians in this generation into the storm.

I’ve heard it quoted that “everything you want is just outside your comfort zone” I really like this quote, it is so inspirational, and it makes me want to do what Bear Grylls does and just go into the jungle somewhere or jump out of a helicopter as he so often does. Or like Alex Honnold, this quote makes me want to try something daring and scary like climb Yosemite's 3200 foot El Capitan without a rope. (well not quite, but you know what I mean.)

Ever since I became a Christian at a young age, I knew of Jesus. But I can say now that I didn't KNOW him. Or call out to him in deep need, until the day I was so scared to be alone in my own home after experiencing real domestic abuse. Not just words, but painful fists hitting my body while holding my baby.

In my previous post, I spoke about the “perfect storm” that our secular age has created and in which us Christians have become caught right in the center of. There can be no doubt of the storm we are facing. By now it is clear that this storm is real and that it cannot be avoided.

Many of us who became Christians at some point in our lives had done so only after coming out of deception. I am one of those people.

These days are strange. Uncharted territories. Fuelled by media fear-mongering, masking what is really going on. If a person does not have a firm foundation, I can see it being very difficult mentally and emotionally.