Dealing with Expectations and Disappointments II.

Hello, it’s another beautiful day on planet earth, and we’re still talking about expectations and disappointments. Some days back, I shared a recent experience I had on this topic and I hope the reality of that story helps us as we deal with this (for story, click here.) The fact that you’re a Christian doesn’t exempt you from these feelings of anger and hurt from disappointments (except we don’t want to be sincere with ourselves; which we often do anyway. For goodness sake, God knows our frame and He remembers that we are dust!).

So, what exactly are we telling God when we get all expectant from fellow humans like us?

Dealing with Expectations and Disappointments 1

Have you ever expected so much from somebody and got your hopes dashed? Well, I have and I have also had to deal with the hurt several times until I learnt a spiritual truth about expectations and disappointments. We’ll be talking about them in a short while, after I share a recent experience I had on this subject. Here goes.

I was invited for an outing by my friend, and her big sis was going to be at the outing, so you could say expectations were quite high on my side.

The Deadly Church Disease: Gossip!!! Part 3

Happy New Month guys! Enjoy fresh Grace.

I’m sorry I couldn’t post anything yesterday, had a filled time at church. I’m sure you did too…

Okay, so we’re back to gossip. In a recap, we’ve identified what gossip is and it’s causes. For more click here and here .Today, we’ll be talking about its effects and how to overcome it.

So, let’s start with its effects.

1.       It sows STRIFE into the hearts of the listeners

The Deadly Church Disease; Gossip!! Part 2

It’s another time with Delonix Cares. I trust we had a good read with yesterday’s post. I enjoin you to be as sincere with yourself as possible (I am too, so you’re not alone in this) as the Holy Spirit in us helps us identify more causes of gossip and teaches us how to tackle it.

Some of us might say that ‘well, I don’t gossip, I just listen to the “gist”, but I don’t make any contribution’. Well, I used to think like that too until

The Deadly Church Disease: Gossip! Part 1

Hi guys! I trust we learnt a lot form the forgiveness series. (I sure did).

 Today, I’d like to talk about a disease that is probably on the verge of destroying the church if we don’t address it- GOSSIP!!!

Many persons are of the opinion that there are two types of gossip. Harmful and non-harmful (let’s be true to ourselves guys, gossip is more often than not, harmful).

Well, let’s see what Webster’s dictionary calls it- 

“Rumour or talk of a personal or sensational nature; someone who habitually spreads sensational or intimate facts”.

With the above, we see that gossips are quite sensitive because they are about people and the things they do (and let’s not forget they’re usually based on groundless rumour. P.S those that gossip are the hardest to please).

Why do we refer to gossip as a “church disease”?

Some Principles Of Forgiveness II

Yesterday we learnt some principles of forgiveness. here. Well, more like clearing misconceptions about forgiveness 

Today, we’ll pick up from where we left off.

Another principle of forgiveness that most people misconstrue is

Some principles of Forgiveness

"'Please forgive him.'

 'There's no way I'm ever going to do that. He's not even repentant of his wrong.''

We see these scenarios playing at one time or another in our lives- when we have to forgive one who as wronged us and its obvious they aren't repentant of their action. Well, I came across an article online and I culled out some principles of forgiveness from it. Let's see if we can take some of them in this post.