Does having faith in God mean you cannot or should not use your head properly any longer? If we would be honest with ourselves, this is one of the nagging questions that come to mind when we take a cursory look at the current Christian landscape in Ghana. It is as if one must throw […]
This continues from part 1….. In part one of this article, we discussed the sexual mood of our present culture and whether or not as human beings, we are the owners of our own bodies and minds. We ended on the note that if it is the case that we have been made or created by […]
In the Saturday, May 6, 2006 edition of ‘The Mirror,’ columnist Dr. Clayton Clay wrote an attention-grabbing article titled, “Pornography and a young mind.” In the article he recounted a problem a single mother told him she was facing concerning her five-year old son.
On any ordinary day, death is not a subject most of us would like to occupy our minds with. It is that dark spot in human experience which we all wish was not there. In Ghana, posters with the words “What A Shock!” and “Gone Too Soon” often express how we feel about the death […]
“Among my first impressions of Ghana was how deeply religious the country is. In fact the question I got asked most frequently by Ghanaians was, ‘do you have faith?’ With a religious mix comprising approximately 70% Christian, 20% Islam, 5% traditional beliefs and only 5% Irreligious, religion is everywhere in Ghana and it’s often found […]
In John chapter 6 it is recorded that after Jesus had fed 5,000 men (no woman or child was included in this figure) and left, the people looked for him till they found him. Jesus explained to them that they were looking for him because they had eaten the bread he gave them and were […]
The desire for sex is one of the powerful hungers of our humanity. It can make you restless when you have in one way or another provoked and entertained it but have no way of immediately satisfying it. Being a Christian or following Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour does not shield you from […]
In the August 2013 edition of the Awake magazine of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, there is an article on pages 12 &13 which is titled, “Should You Believe in the Trinity?” Essentially the article argues for the case that the word Trinity and the idea it seeks to encapsulate (an idea which is believed by many Christians) are […]
I did some reading today on the concept of ‘light years’. Although I previously had a vague idea of what it was, I wanted to know a little bit more. And honestly speaking, today’s reading experience has given me a refreshing appreciation of God’s grandeur. Prior to my reading today, I knew that light had […]
‘When I survey the wondrous cross / On which the Prince of glory died, / My richest gain I count but loss, / And pour contempt on all my pride”, wrote the hymnist, Isaac Watts. The basic symbol of most Christian churches has for centuries been the cross. Yet how often do we stop to […]
