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The Role of Guilt on Mental Health
Guilt has a survival function. It makes us feel bad for a wrong that we did. This serves to prevent further escalation of the said ‘wrong’ behaviour. [caption id="attachment_2323" align="aligncenter"...
Spiritual Greed and Faith
"Oh you of little faith!" No verse in the Gospels shows The Lord Jesus' frustrations as when He is scolding His disciples saying: "Oh you of little faith!" At first, The Lord Jesus said this to the...
Trinity: God is Love
In my first year of University I took a class in philosophy. I had no idea what philosophy was and thought I would just take the class and see. At the start of the first lecture, the lecturer sat on...
History, Jesus and the Easter Bunny
It’s that time of year again for hot cross buns and chocolate! Let that Easter bunny hide chocolate eggs around my house and I won’t question why a bunny would do that, who cares? Chocolate is so...
Secrets in The Bible
Imagine a world taken over by an evil sadist and all he wants is to see everyone suffer. God’s heart aches from creation’s groans. We are suffering and we want a way out of this reality. Creation has...
Is it good to be sin-conscious? Is that what God really wants?
The answer straight up, is no. To say God wants us conscious of the sins which have been removed from us, as far as the east is from the west, is to contradict and confuse ourselves1. It is to say...
2016 The Year of Active Hope!
Welcome to the first working week of 2016 where the holiday season officially ends and reality kicks in. In times such as this, we are faced with 2 types of people: the ones who hold on to 2015 out...
Christmas Day: Their Hope, Our Reality
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. John 1:10 Jesus created the world (Col 1:16), yet when He walked on it, no one recognized Him. Water blushed at His...
Love and Empowerment
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour. Ephesians 5:2 To walk in love is to live life carrying...
The Power Behind Prayers
For the sake of definition and communication, I use the word prayer to refer to behaviour that is used to engage in a personal 2-way communication with God. In this way, prayers involve a...