Surge Spirit of The New – MARCH 2021
Day 5: Expecting The New
Bible Reading: Romans 4:16-25, Habakkuk 2:1-3 There are times I get home quite late but I can be certain I will meet my young kids awake, running out of the door to welcome me home. It largely depends on what I told them before I left. Sometimes in a situation of trying to manage the emotions of my going out, I might have taken the easy rout and told them something like ‘guess what, daddy is going to get you…
Day 4: Sustaining The New
Bible Reading: John 15:1-27 Do you remember resumption days at the beginning of each new term in primary school, and the initial steam and determination to be a ‘proper child’ that you’d go to school with? Do you remember how you would want to write on the first page of your brand new exercise book and you would do it with all care and holy caution. You would almost say an opening prayer before writing the date. Each letter was…
Day 3: Work Out The New
Bible Reading: James 2:14-26 My wife and I did a monthly registration at a gym sometime last year. Sorry, take that back. My wife and I did some charity donation sometime last year. We could have as well rather added the registration money to our offerings in church. Well, we used 2 or 3 days out of the month. Here’s what I learnt: Walking into that room and seeing all the equipment- the tread mills, the exercise bikes, sit up…
Day 2: Is More Possible?
Bible Reading: Mark 4:1-20 In my experience with young kids, when you ask them what they would love to have before going to shop, their answers don’t change based on the amount you offer. What they want is what they want. Whether you make a provision of one thousand, ten thousand or a hundred thousand naira as funding for shopping, the child who want a lollipop wants it, and the chid who wants a bicycle wants that. As a parent,…
Right and Wrong Sizes
Bible Reading: Matthew 9:14-31 When I was in Secondary school, there were quite a lot of parties that the guys would organise. Dressing to the parties was always a very big deal. I mean, people would go as far as selling out of sight items in their houses to buy ‘baffs’- items like a pumping machine that is not often used or the battery or headlines of a car that has been parked for a bit. Such was the desperation. …