GRACE
At 14 I joined senior men’s cricket. PICTURE: Alessandro Bogliano/Unsplash It was pretty intimidating at first, but I watched the boys. They used to bait each other in the nets. The batter claiming each shot went for four, the bowler, that any miss-hits resulted in a wicket! So second week I got into the […]
GRACIOUS
When I was about 18-years-old, I discovered a very famous piece of Scripture, I Corinthians 13, on love. It’s a great passage and very profound, especially if you replace the word love with your own name. Try it sometime. Part of that famous Biblical passage that spoke to Paul Clark. PICTURE: Leighann Renee/Unsplash About six months later […]
THE WAY IN
Most of us understand religion like going to university. You join the religion, you can now wear the T-shirt. But salvation is not assured. Graduation day – but Christians are already living a life of service in assurance they’s passed, says Paul Clark. PICTURE: Vasily Koloda/Unsplash. You have to do years of study, many tasks, […]
SIGHT-SEEING: HOW “GOOD” CAN YOU HANDLE IT?
NILS VON KALM looks at how the grace of Jesus Christ can transform our lives – but we have to accept it first…
THIS LIFE: DOES YOUR LIFE PAINT A PICTURE OF GRACE?
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, on the importance of soaking in the Bible…
TEXTING
It amazes me how differently people can come across in text messages! PICTURE: Daria Nepriakhina/Unsplash When it comes to texting, some people are all serious and formal, even though you know them to be relaxed and spontaneous. Other people can come across all ‘giddy-as-a-schoolgirl’, using all those emoticons and abbreviations, when in real life they are […]
BOOKS: STORIES OF GRACE, LOVE…AND DROPPING STONES
NILS VON KALM finds Carlos Rodriguez’s Drop the Stones filled with challenging stories about what it means to be Christ-like…
POSTCARDS: FOUR CHIBOK SCHOOLGIRLS TO START UNIVERSITY IN AUGUST
ILLIA DJADI, of World Watch Monitor reports on how a chairt aimed at helping children pursue their studies in areas affected by Boko Haram’s insurgency in Nigeria, have helped 10 of the girls kidnapped from their school Chibok to pursue their education…
GO AROUND THE BLOCK
When navigating a strange place I used to live on the edge of my seat. If we made a wrong turn I would panic and think, ‘It’s the end of the world; we’re gonna be lost forever!’ My wife, however, showed me another way. If we missed a turn, my wife did something radical – […]