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March 15, 2017
The Dangers of Christian Ministry
Serving in God’s harvest field is a great thing. He has apportioned gifts to his church to prepare for his coming Kingdom. However, as we do so, we must be cognizant of lurking dangers. These are some of the dangers of Christian ministry. As you read through them, do some self-auditing.
Danger One: Participating in ministry but not walking with God.
In Matthew 7:21-23, Jesus describes a future scene on Judgement day. Jesus says:
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingd...
February 27, 2017
Situationships
This past month, I have had the privilege of teaching several young people on love, sex and relationships. After the teachings I normally try to have a question and answer session. I noticed that most of the questions asked by unmarried youth in our country have to do with a lack of emotional integrity. I have written on emotional integrity before. However this write-up is to address two particular scenarios that cropped up in the Q and A sessions in almost all the youth groups I taught. Thes...
February 2, 2017
For Men Only: THE BAND OF BROTHERS
Last year alone, from our interaction with several young married couples, we noticed that there are some men in church who behave badly in their marriages because there is no one to rebuke them when they are out of line. Their heavy involvement in ministry and their religious Sunday faces gives the impression that they are good husbands. Meanwhile their wives silently suffer uncivil, crude and character-deficient behaviour in private from these husbands.
The women fear speaking to anyone beca...
January 19, 2017
On Teens and Sex
This week, I was teaching a workshop on sexuality to some teenagers and I said “Sex is a great thing!” About three of them giggled. A few of them blushed and many looked at me as if I had said some unpardonable words. After some further interaction with them, I realised that most of them had lived all their teenage life being warned through fearful statements aboutsex. Some common fear statements are:
Don’t have sex because you will get herpes Don’t have sex because you will get pregnant Don...January 4, 2017
THE WRATH OF GOD
A quick and light glance at the Old Testament and you almost feel as if God is a raging volcano that can never be quenched. The wrath of God is often an ignored topic in many evangelical circles today. Some professing believers don’t like to handle it because it raises questions that they are unable to answer. Some try to douse it with a pat answer, “God is love” and hope the listeners will only read parts of the Bible that are not PG-13 and ignore the rest. The subject of God’s wrath is one...
December 19, 2016
SEX IS SACRED
Today’s blogpost is by a friend of mine called John Kigada. John Kigada is a Leadership Educator and Social Entrepreneur at the Cipher Taifa Foundation. His scholarly and curricula interests include Christology, mate selection by males, music leadership, and biblical entrepreneurial leadership. He and I started the “Dating and Purpose” seminar this year and it was successful. John is a man with a lot of wisdom. Sitting with him always leaves me edified. This article outlines the sanctity of G...
December 6, 2016
BOOK REVIEW: The Software of Sex
Title: The Software of Sex
Sub-title: Most Talked About, Least Understood
Author: Ken Aringo
Pages: 106
Publisher: Koa Media
ISBN: 978-9966-098-03-0
Ken Aringo, a man whom I greatly admire has written a book on sex! He is one of the men I acknowledged in the previous blog for giving his time and resources to build the youth ministry in this country.Ken Aringo writing about sex may not seem like anything worth celebrating, but for the Kenyan church, it definitely is. Why? Well, firstly, the yo...
November 28, 2016
Between the Pulpit and the Stage: The battle for a lost generation
Today’s blog is by a good friend of mine, Pastor David Ewagata. We hosted him andhis wife, Rose,in August this year on our relationships forum, Boy Meets Girl. He is full of wisdom from God. This blog was initially posted on his Facebook timeline and reposted here with his permission. Ewagata has been married for over 16 years and is well known for his devotion towards youth ministry. I personallyattribute tohim as one of the ministers who helped establishthe foundation ofour youth ministries...
November 22, 2016
3 ways we circumvent repenting from sexual sin
If there was a time in my life when repentance was an affront, it is the time I struggled with a pornography and masturbation addiction. Repentance became an affront because I had done it so many times and I was still stuck in my sin. It was also an affront because it reminded me how useless I had been rendered by an inability to tame the lustful desires that burned in me. The third reason is the core of this blog. The third reason that repentance was an affront was because I loved my sin. Ye...
October 28, 2016
Emotional Infidelity
Over the years, we have had several people write to us emails of being in relationship dilemmas. One says they are in love with two people. Another says they love a man but he is married. Another one says he and his best friend’s girlfriend are in love. Some have crossed sexual boundaries and live with the repercussions up to date. They seem to all have the same questions when they write:
“She is someone’s wife but I just fell in love and I don’t know how it happened. How do I get out of thi...
