William Farrell in his book The Myth of Male Power surveys how the often decried ‘Patriarchal’ system was harder on the man than is commonly acknowledged. He speaks of how men in history have been the dispensable sex, expected to do the most menial works in the harshest of realities, even to the detriment of their health or death, and often not respected or recognized for doing so.
… How Dishonoring the Sabbath Leads to the Disintegration of Society
There is no salvation for Man apart from the grace of God in Christ. The Bible affirms that it is ‘by grace you have been saved through faith’ (Eph. 2:8). Salvation by grace through faith is what separates Christianity from other religions in the world which are works-based.
The Church of Christ right from the start has always swum against the prevailing cultural tides. Her Foundation (Christ) was crucified by the powers that were, for contravening their sinful social-economic and political substructures. He too swam against the tide, as the Prophet like Moses and the end to which all authentic prophets pointed.
John Calvin, the great French-Swiss Reformer, states in his Institutes of Christian Religion that ‘Our wisdom if it is to be thought genuine, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and ourselves.’
Picture the Judgment Seat of Christ on the Last Day. Multitudes throng the throne of God and verdicts are being read. You are approaching, but before you reach the Judge, you hear a plea filled with deep anguish along the lines of: ‘…but Lord, I responded to an altar call. I said the sinners’ prayer and the preacher told me that I was saved…’
He came, He who eternally has been
The Maker of the visible and invisible
On earth He always was, yet unseen
And now God as Man is touchable
There is a picture on social media currently causing a spectacle in which a particular well clad ‘Remnant Prophet’ mimics the ‘Triumphal Entry’ with his followers laying down palm branches. It seems like the picture is from his last year’s visit to Angola.
The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul. These are the sweet and reassuring words of the Psalmist (Ps 19:7). They are statements of a man who had tasted and seen the goodness of the Lord, a man who had rejoiced in the supreme sufficiency of the sovereign God.
One persistent objection raised against Christianity by ‘Pan-Africanists’ is that African Christians serve a foreign God, a white man’s Wanga. To them, Christianity is nothing more than a medium of residual cultural imperialism and neo-colonialism.
In a fast-paced world that survives on fact-packed news bytes, people easily satisfy their hunger for power, pomp, and prosperity by use of a little prediction. For people in a country like Uganda, someone who ‘taps’ into the spiritual realm comes in handy. And when our worlds spin faster than light, we have no time to pause, ponder, or even pray. We ‘receive’ whatsoever our apps bring, without stopping to deliberate and decide wisely.
