SurgeACTION- November 1-5 2021
Day 5 – This, That- Life On Your Toes
Bible Reading – James 5 It’s the audacity for me. I’m midway through a gym session, catching heavy breaths and struggling to ascertain whether this body is still my own, and then this gym instructor comes and boldly calls out a next set of five things to do. What’s interesting though is how these new five very different things- each focused on a different set of muscles in the body- are combined into one set. Here I am doing this,…
Day 4 – Failing The Open Book Test
Bible Reading– James 4 I remember writing a test when I was in the University that got my whole class scared that the lecturer was playing some prank on us. It was a really dreaded and very important course. The build up preparation had been so intense and scary. People had read everything they could comprehend and crammed everything they could not understand. Eventually, on the day of the test, the lecturer tells us that it’s going to be…
Day 3- Little Big Things
Bible Reading: James 3 You’ve probably encountered a little big detail in life: Perhaps you finished writing a 3 hour exam with your fancy blue pen before noticing that in the instructions, you were asked to write with black ink. Little big detail. Or when you’ve fallen in love, gotten soaked and drenched in it, and as you were swimming along in the rivers of love, you remember to ask for her genotype. Little big thing. The little big details…
Day 2- Believing Demons
Bible Reading: James 2 Imagine someone wanted to give you a car gift and took you to a car exhibition room to make a choice. Here you are looking at all these amazing automobiles, checking out various models and various features and all that. If you think about it though, your choice isn’t just going to boil down to your favourite colour or the model and year of manufacture. If that car is a car you want to ever use,…
Day 1 – Head Full; Hand Empty
Bible Reading : James 1 I wonder what kind of student you were in school. You know, there were some subjects that had practicals as part of the subject content. The expectation was that students shouldn’t just know, they should do. And that’s exactly where the problem lay for some students- they would score so well in the theory, but would fail the practicals. You would really expect that a student that knew the theory would easily do what he…