SurgeAUDACITY March 2022

Bible Reading: Acts 16:1-15 If you’re following the news about the build up to the general elections in Nigeria next year, there’s a trend you might have noticed among most politicians- nobody just gets up and decides to run for a political office. There’s seemingly an appropriate plot to follow. Here’s the typical narrative: you are not interested in the office or or even thinking about it until a group of youths starts to campaign for you and even use…

Bible Reading: Exodus 3: 1-22 If you’ve ever seen a soccer game go into a penalty shoot out, there’s sometimes this bitter-sweet moment that I like to see at the end: When one of the players of the team that eventually wins the game actually missed his own penalty during the shootout.  When everyone is celebrating at the end, there’s always that bitter-sweet feel- he’s celebrating as a champion, but he is well aware that if it were down to…

Bible Reading: Acts 4: 1-31 Pressure can be a very intense thing. People can pressurise you. Systems and their demands can be very pressuring. In short, life can be full of pressure at varying degrees of intensity. But you know, when we are squeezed to our core, we bring out what is deep inside us. The outcomes in the room when I press on a perfume bottle is different from the outcomes when I press on an insecticide can. The…

Bible Reading: Judges 16:4-23 You probably have that friend or colleague that has the tendency to totally miss the point of a conversation. Tell her a funny incident that happened with your mum, and then in two minutes you’re defending yourself about not being gender insensitive, or an ingrate for all your mum’s sacrifices over your life, and so on. Some people might seem extreme, but if we’re honest, we all have the tendency to miss the point of any…

Bible Reading:  Matthew 14:22-33 It’s one thing to have a drive in a direction, but it’s a totally new challenge when there are odds against you. Let’s be honest, to walk on water when the seas are calm and settled is totally audacious!  It’s a big miracle. But to walk on water when the winds and waves are raging and are against you is another thing entirely!  The truth is that in the world that we live in, it seems…