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You Can Have The Pleasures of Discovery and Invention
In 1874, Alexander Graham Bell spent the summer with his parents in Brantford, Ontario. He was twenty-seven years old, and employed as a speech therapist in Boston. But his real interest was solving the puzzle of what he then called the “harmonic telegraph.” In Boston, he had studied hard, tinkered obsessively with tuning forks and…
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The Mayor and his Girlfriend
The world is in a transition season. We are questioning institutions and customs. Old ideas are scrutinized and evaluated to determine their relevance to a modern world. One of the most scrutinized institutions in our days is the institution of marriage. There seems not to be any role for marriages and proper families in today’s…
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God Of Heaven. Humans Of The Earth.
Some thinkers introduced a two-tier understanding of heaven and earth. They held that God exists, but that he lives in a distant realm called heaven, where he looks down at the human world moving along, on earth. They paint a picture of a cold, dispassionate and indifferent God. However, that is not the God of…
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God Over The Affairs of Men
God has a penchant for intervening in the affairs of men. God is not disconnected from the affairs of this world, and is only interested in the rapture of his saints to heaven. One can see the hand of God all over worldly affairs. The impression we have from the bible is that the Almighty…
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Light and Darkness of the World
“As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” John 9:5 ESV There is a need to better understand the world and its dynamics. The world is not light or dark of its own makeup. The world is rather driven by the aggregate of the people within the system.…
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The World is the Lord’s
The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. (Psalm 24:1-2 ESV) It is time to protest and challenge the idea that the world belongs to “satan”. Our God founded the earth and created…
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God Loves The World
God loves the world. He loves the world so much that he charged his only-begotten Son to save it. It is interesting to note that Christians are the ones that hate the world. This is not surprising because the goal of most Christians is to die and escape to heaven. The time has come to…
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Leveraging Spirituality to Advance Knowledge and Technology
Let us start from the basics by acknowledging the Almighty God in his fullness and glory. Basic Christian theology teaches us that the Almighty God is omniscience (all-knowing), omnipotence (all-powerful), omnificence (all-creating) and omnipresence (all-present). We also understand that we act as God’s agent in the physical world and channel God into our world. The…
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The Greatest Pursuit
We – every human being, are in pursuit of something. There are many things demanding your time and energy. A lot of things you could be doing, many things you should be doing. This makes it important for you to be sure that you are spending your scarce resources on the right pursuits. Money, fame…
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Unity, Harmony and Doing Great Things
How wonderful and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony! For harmony is as precious as the anointing oil that was poured over Aaron’s head, that ran down his beard and onto the border of his robe (Psalms 133:1-2 NLT). Something happens when people can live together with a common goal, in peace…
Watching the World: Mandate-of-heaven perspectives for the Watchman tasked with steering us towards a better future.
