A baby elephant is born with a trunk it doesn’t yet know how to use. For months, it nurses directly while that trunk hangs almost uselessly, sometimes even getting stepped on as it wobbles along behind its mother. Slowly, under her patient watch, it learns to coil that trunk around grass, to draw water toward its own mouth, to strip bark from a branch.
Month: August 2026
Grumbling: The Sin We Never Take Seriously
Picture a skilled tailor who runs a small business and keeps up a steady stream of complaint all day: about customers, suppliers, the government, the weather and nearly everything else that crosses her path. None of it sounds dramatic, and none of it looks like rebellion against God.
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When Naomi came home to Bethlehem after years away, the women of the town hardly recognised her. She told them not to call her by her name any more.
Continue reading “The Ministry of Staying When It’s Hard”What Your Prayer List Says About Your Faith
Early in Solomon’s reign, God appeared to him in a dream with an open offer: “Ask! What shall I give you?” (1 Kings 3:5, NKJV). Few of us will ever receive an invitation like that, but most of us answer a smaller version of it every time we pray.
Continue reading “What Your Prayer List Says About Your Faith”The God Who Interrupts
Anyone who has driven the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway knows the sound of a tyre blowing out at speed and the unplanned stop on the hard shoulder that follows. Nobody schedules a breakdown, and it always seems to happen when you have somewhere else to be.
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