Last week, Clepha wrote an article urging the bride and groom to enjoy the wedding preparation process and not accept the notion that weddings are synonymous with stress. This week, I would like to reflect on some unhealthy wedding practices…

Preparing and planning a wedding in Africa has become synonymous with stress and angst. As a groom, with my wedding in exactly 74 days, I have noticed how we’ve embraced stress as a regular part of wedding preparations. Everyone—your bridal…

September is the anniversary month at Faith Baptist Church, Riverside. I started attending FBCR in 1998, and it has become home. Many people have served and supported the congregation over the years: some for 30 years, others for 3 years…

A constant fear I regularly wrestle with is the possibility that a loved one might pass on any day. I mentally go through the list of close family and friends and quietly, agonisingly wonder, who is it? It is true…

Pastoral ministry is patterned after the nature of enduring parental love. From the moment children are born, parents begin a lifelong journey of training by instruction and example. Routine and repetition are the parents and the pastor’s best allies. Is…

“WE, THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA: ACKNOWLEDGE the supremacy of God Almighty; DECLARE the Republic a Christian Nation while upholding a person’s right to freedom of conscience, belief or religion.” Those are the words in the preamble of the Zambian Constitution. In…

Preaching is essential in the church no matter the season, the cultural context or the people. It is necessary because God has revealed himself through his word, and he has, throughout redemptive history, raised preachers to herald his word. As…

There is something about hospitals that, ironically, I find to be life-sapping. The smell of medicine, the weary and gloomy faces of patients, the screams of children with a phobia of needles or the desperate cry of an adult who…