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.

End Violence against Women...

The United Nations General Assembly defines "violence against women" as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life."  -Wikipedia.

Violence can be dated to as far back as the period that preceded the Enlightenment phase of mankind. Prior to that time, women were usual regarded as subjects to their men. However, with the dawning of the enlightenment age, women became out spoken, dependent, the desire for education and professionalism suddenly sprang up, and women began to take charge of their own affairs. They took up the mantle of leadership, and have since then, occupied one lead role or the other.

It is however sad, that not every woman has been liberated and not every male has ceased to violate a woman at one point or the other, as we still hear of cases of physical, emotional, psychological, sexual and mental slavery which as a result of non-eradication of violence against women.

Good Self Esteem; A Key Ingredient In Creating A Better Nigeria

Defining self esteem

Self esteem is a term commonly used in psychology to reflect a person’s overall evaluation or appraisal of his or her self worth. It is also referred to as one’s self image. In modern times, it is described as how high or low one’s ‘’swagger’’ is. One can easily pick out similarities in these descriptions like high/low, image/worth, etc.  Irrespective of these different words, the same question is asked- ‘’how do you see yourself?’’

Self esteem is your opinion about yourself. Self esteem means knowing what you are good at and what you’re not so good at without letting it diminish the way you see yourself. This is because your self esteem creates part of your identity...